Max 2017 SP2 is out

[Morne]

Grab it while it's hot
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppo...-2.html?v=2017

[glorybound]

Hot dog! it's like Christmas today! Hopefully, MAX gets better for people and not worse.

[Morne]

The changelog seems to cover most of the bad ones...

for example: Things like having Max X 3 open etc is supposedly fixed now

[glorybound]

How in the hell could they not have fixed the 'select by material'? I don't mean to complain, but that was one of the biggest things people were bringing up, proving that Autodesk was a bunch if baboons.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

ill wait for SP3 then or completely skip this one...which would will mean i will throw away 50K CZK for this years maintenance subscription :-/
idiots....this really makes me mad

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Bobby this is from the AREA forum:

Yeah - it's official



And before big rant threads appear everywhere:

Seems the infamous "Select by Material" not working with Scene Explorer based dialogs bug is still not fixed with that SP Smiley Sad So i'll stick with the legacy "select from scene" dialog hacks quite a bit longer. "Select by Material" works in those legacy dialogs ...

[glorybound]

I am fine with an MAXSCRIPT, but come one, listen to your customers!

[stevesideas]

ill wait for SP3 then or completely skip this one...which would will mean i will throw away 50K CZK for this years maintenance subscription :-/
idiots....this really makes me mad

The fact that we have to skip a version (which I will more than likely do too) is beyond a joke ! What the hell are we paying for ?

[glorybound]

Imagine a world where you can make millions to create things that don't work.

[glorybound]

A scene that worked fine with SP1 now isn't bearable in SP2. Is anyone else experiencing this? I was working fine yesterday, upgraded last night and this morning, the viewport is so slow I can't work.

[eyepiz]

A scene that worked fine with SP1 now isn't bearable in SP2. Is anyone else experiencing this? I was working fine yesterday, upgraded last night and this morning, the viewport is so slow I can't work.

What version of windows are you on? Windows 10 is hateful with Max.

[Nicinus]

Cr@p, I decided to upgrade yesterday when I saw SP2 was out.

[glorybound]

Yes, Windows 10, but I haven't had an issue until now.

What version of windows are you on? Windows 10 is hateful with Max.

[eyepiz]

Yes, Windows 10, but I haven't had an issue until now.

I just got back from Siggraph and had some good conversations with reps from Intel and BOXX. It appears that Windows 10 does not play well with machines running over 64 threads i.e dual 18 core Xeon's and above. I had issues that would slowly cripple a machine until it becomes unusable with a similar configuration.

Take a look at the application and system logs in the event viewer. I bet it's flooded with errors.

All of the demos that BOXX was running 3DS MAX 2017 were running windows 7 Pro. Not a Single BOXX machine was on windows 10.

[glorybound]

I don't have over 64 cores. I checked my logs and there are no errors. I haven't had a single issue until SP2, which I installed yesterday. I am removing it now; I'll see what happens.