How to determine 3ds max SP version on render nodes?

[Tim in Hollywood]

Hi all,

We're trying to diagnose some distributed rendering problems. Having gone through all of the recommended steps without success, we want to go back to the basics and see if something like different 3ds max service packs are installed among the render slaves.

All of our render slaves have 3ds max 2016. They are all legally installed without license (since they are only used as render slaves). However, since we can't open 3ds max on them, we can't get to the "About 3ds max" screen to verify the SP number on each.

Can this be determined in some other way?

Thanks,
Tim

[Morne]

If you go to control panel > programs and features > installed updates,
you will see which service pack was installed and on which date

[Tim in Hollywood]

Thank you so much! I never knew that info existed there. Very helpful.

All systems had the same SP installed. One potential problem scratched off of the list.

[davexl]

I use a script to check I have updated VRAY on all the slaves correctly and the DR host is running... you can download vraydr_check.exe from http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/misc/

Then use this batchfile (of course modify for your own machine names) It will return the VRAY version of each slave - for example I am running VRAY version 3.30.05 which reports a version number of 3.37.01 - but as long as they are the same on all slaves you should be good.



@echo off

:start
echo .

echo .
echo ___________________________________________
echo .
echo SR2A
C:\Apps\vraydr_check.exe -host=SR2A -port=20204
echo ___________________________________________
echo .
echo SR2B
C:\Apps\vraydr_check.exe -host=SR2B -port=20204
echo ___________________________________________
echo .
echo SR2D
C:\Apps\vraydr_check.exe -host=SR2D -port=20204

: add the rest of your slaves....



TIMEOUT 15
goto start