max 2010 freezing after Vray installation

[ASU_SCHOOL]

after installing Vray, max 2010 hangs on the load screen. once i unistall, it runs fine again. redownload, reinstall VRAY, same thing happens... freeze on Max load. it initializes, says plug ins loaded, then it hangs on "starting 3ds max" screen. I cant find anyone online that is having this same issue. any thoughts?? thanks,

Chris


p.s. this is the screenshot of the load max window im stuck with...

[jujubee]

Could be having problems loading into a certain graphics mode - opengl or dx. Did you try installing the latest graphics drivers?

[Morbid Angel]

hmm i doubdt its graphics mode. What windows are you runnig? could be some path issue?

[ASU_SCHOOL]

windows vista 32 is the OS, and the copy of max is brand new out of the box. it runs max perfectly without vray installed, so i also doubt that it would be the video drivers. its 100% repeatable when i install vray 1.50sp3a, it hangs, when i unistall it, it doesnt. i never had a problem with 1.5sp2 and max 2009... i even unstalled both of those programs to be sure it wasnt a conflict of some sort. im lost haha, thanks.

[vlado]

Did you set up the V-Ray licensing information properly? This could be the time when V-Ray tries to connect to the license server. In any case, even if so, it should continue after some time (maybe up to a minute).

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

Yeah what Vlado said. I thought to suggest to just let it hold for a while and see if it loads still. Sometimes when my license is not configured right, my max also holds if vray is set as a current renderer. Thought, it holds during max open ui. But thats not max 2010.

[ASU_SCHOOL]

thank you all

Thank you all for your responses, and making me think of drivers.. it was a driver confliction with the Wacom Tablet Intous4. Today, Max would not work without VRay installed, so i unistalled the wacom driver and now it works fine with max 2010 and vray! I dont get it, but ill live without the wacom for now to have vray back haha. It may be a conflict with my Vaio laptop, but thanks again.

[Morbid Angel]

vista ...
you probably dont need to uninstall the driver. Just stop the service, and run max, then if you need a tablet just manually launch it.