vray override material problem

[t3dm]

suddenly when using max and vray.. selecting the vray override material caused max to crash without notice... was working fine earlier today, reinstalled vray and 3DS max 9 and service pack 2.. nothing!

any ideas?

[t3dm]

this is totally wierd!!

this is not even machine specific.. using local licence servers.. just swapping the dongle..

now if i touch the vay overide material at aqll max crashes.. no warning just back to windows desktop!

was using the material fine only a few hours ago ... no significant problems, just one crash.. must have done something. I have re-installed max and vray..

help!!

[vlado]

Do any materials have their maps visible in the viewport?

Best regards,
Vlado

[t3dm]

no.. it now works with a blank scene.. blank mat editor!! select vray overridematerial.. It is bizzare because both manchines i have been using for modelling, rendering and compositing were handling the material fine. The thing is one of the machines are not connected to the nextwork, it a new quad core.. the other machine is a dual core amd.. and it had developed the same problem. Totally bizzare.

using RC4 BTW