Max crashing with new vray?

[werticus]

hrmm i was just about to start a new thread called 'crash much?'

so ill just add my problem here:
the scene im working on is 100% 1.5 .

Max seems to crash a bit at random - i think it might have been autobak so i increased the time of saves from 5 to 15mins. which actually seemed to fix 'random' crashes for no reason

also it crashes a LOT loading the material editor, actually i wonder if its because its trying to pole the dongle very rapidly and maybe it cant keep up? As it seems to get through a variable number of swatches each time before it gets stuck and disappears

also it hangs about 50% of the time on transforming vertices when you first hit render with 100% cpu on one core.

and it crashes when you try to switch a material type. ie im trying to switch from bitmap to gradient... crash.

just crashed cancelling a render.

im on a brand new re build too.

[voltron7]

I've had an RC4 scene crashing lately since updating to 1.5. Some times
it will just crash to desktop with no warning, even just having the scen open and idling. I cannot confirm this, but it seems to only happen when
I have DR activated and a render slave running, too. Oh, and this is x64 version...

[sv]

also it hangs about 50% of the time on transforming vertices when you first hit render with 100% cpu on one core.

i'm still on RC4, but i get this a lot!
Was hoping that 1.50.00 would have fixed this, but i'm not sure now.....
it's really random, i can't seem to reproduce it, but saving before render, seeing if it crashes, if it does, just kill it, reboot max and hit render, and it goes fine.

It does seem to be if i've done a lot of work on the scene, without doing any rendering for a while (for instance if i've been modeling for a few hours) then it hangs on transforming vertices with one thread on 100% CPU usage, and the others left idle.....

[werticus]

i dont want to say it but my desk is solid wood (knock knock)

but today everything is working just fine! which is annoying... kinda.

[jacksc02]

hey wert, are you using NOD32 at all?

[gfa2]

I have a lot of crashing with Direct X set as my driver(Even on 1.5 final). Its unfortunate too, because it works a lot better. But I had to switch to the software driver just so that I can work. It seemed to be random crashes as well. Try that, see if it reduces that crashes.

I get a lot of crashes with Direct X also, and that does suck because it is the fastest option. But I've also got another weird thing going on, I have noticed that if I work in max I'm fine, but if I switch over to Photoshop or some other program (doesn't matter which), after several minutes (maybe 10 or more...not sure) max will totally disappear and I'll get the Autodesk error report submission dialog box. Very frustrating, but having the autosave feature set to like 5 minutes has saved me a bunch of times.

[beestee]

I haven't been able to open files made with previous versions of VRay, it would result in a VIZ crash. Had some Windows updates available, after updating I have been able to open up old files no problem

Seems that MAX/VIZ is back to it's good old self, where you have to hold your tongue a certain way to get it to work properly

EDIT: Yep, just crashed to desktop on my first rendering of the day. Odd, because I was rendering all day Friday on the same scene, not a single problem.

[vlado]

For all the cases above; if you have a file that reproducibly crashes, please send it to me to vlado@chaosgroup.com for investigation; without a file I cannot do much to fix the issue.

Best regards,
Vlado

[gfa2]

For all the cases above; if you have a file that reproducibly crashes, please send it to me to vlado@chaosgroup.com for investigation; without a file I cannot do much to fix the issue.

Best regards,
Vlado

Vlado, I just had my crash happen to me about 5 minutes ago and in my case in particular it has nothing to do with the specific file. I get a crash even if I have an empty scene open. If I'm not activity working in max, but I have it open it will crash after a period of inactivity. It seems to be fine as long as I'm active in the program. I'm on max 8 RC3 and XP 32-bit with Vray 1.50.00

[vlado]

Vlado, I just had my crash happen to me about 5 minutes ago and in my case in particular it has nothing to do with the specific file. I get a crash even if I have an empty scene open. If I'm not activity working in max, but I have it open it will crash after a period of inactivity. It seems to be fine as long as I'm active in the program. I'm on max 8 RC3 and XP 32-bit with Vray 1.50.00

In that case, perhaps your problem is not specifically related to V-Ray. I mostly meant my comment for the people who have crashing scenes.

I know that there is some kind of problem in 3ds Max when it is left untouched for some time; this happens even without V-Ray installed.

Best regards,
Vlado

[dlparisi]

As long as we're on the subject of crashes I get a consistent and easily reproducible error that shuts down Max every time I open an old scene and don't respond within a couple of seconds to the dialog box about the new sun/camera compatibility. As long as I pick it quickly everything is fine. Easily avoidable, I just need to pay attention while the file is loading, but I thought I'd mention it.

[natty]

For all the cases above; if you have a file that reproducibly crashes, please send it to me to vlado@chaosgroup.com for investigation; without a file I cannot do much to fix the issue.

Best regards,
Vlado

Hi Vlado,

This is happening on all files not just one, this has never happened before 1.5 final? this is also happening on 5 different workstations, all working on different max files? we are all crashing speradically every 10 mins or so, when we go back to RC5 things seem to be fine? but we have to stick with the final version until we have all finished the projects we have been working on.

we are still on max8, xp64.

just on a side note, does it make a difference if we are importing a lot of models from older scene's? should we be using vray in legacy mode? or does the new DMC only affect the render engine and the materials just comply with what ever you are using?

Natty

[chris-x//]

same problem here, but max crashes as soon as the file is opened. File in 1.5 RC3 is fine, crashes instantly on 1.5 final. We're doomed here at work, the big machine for rendering cannot open the file...... deadline in 2 days... omg

[chris-x//]

problem solved, the graphic card was in direct 3D, crashed as sonn as the file was opened. Switched to opengl, now working fine. Phewwwww I took 5 years of age in three hours

[gfa2]

I'm noticing Directx problems too guys....is it a max thing, a Vray/max thing, just a Vray thing. I have little to no problems (except for very slow response times) when using OpenGL or software drivers.