Does anyone elses 3DS Max hang after closing it?

Corona Corona for 3ds Max Help Required
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Hi all

ive noticed over the last few months, 3DS max hangs and freezes when i try and close it down. It also happens sometimes when i press File>New. this also happens on a new machine in which i installed it on - just wondering if this was happening to anyone else?

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Yep. I sometimes wait 10+ minutes for max to close… it’s worse on some scenes than others, but no pattern or reason found yet

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strange - its been happening since this years updates more so.

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Can’t you roll back to previous update?. I’m on Max 2023.2.2 - no freezes on closing here.

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Yes, noticed this too, sometimes pretty brutal 5 minutes easily on heavy scene. My workstation is 2023.1 (can’t update because I need the features to be exactly in this rev).

I haven’t updated 3dsMax, I only keep updating Corona, and I would say it’s Corona as well but I don’t have time to investigate.

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Hi,

Slow closing times are usually one of two things:

AMD cpu in your PC, when saving out before closing (Known problem, they are currently looking for a solution)
Or, Your scene is esponentially filling with hidden NoteTracks (also a known problem, yet to find a solution).

With the former, AMD problem, there is nothing you can do.
But with the latter, you can run some maxscript to clear out the NoteTracks:

NoteTracks are these little things: Help

They come in when merging xRefs into Max Scenes, and a few other ways.
But they tend to fill up some peoples scenes, ADSK are yet to find out properly why.
Sometimes there’s millions of them. They can hyperinflate your scene too, in to the GBs in size.

Hopefully this helps.
Regards,

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I doubt it’s just that. First, it happens in same way on my Threadrippers, Xeons, Xeons-W and Intel-HX laptops.
Second, I have clear note-tracks as part of my start-up scripts, I haven’t had them in years.

The slow-down for me started happening in past 6 months +/- I would say, or even later, since Winter?

Either Corona build, Licence server, or Windows 11 update crap again.

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I agree, its only been the last 6 months. You can probably rule out windows 11 as i am on 10.

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This is all very interesting. I’ll investigate more based on this info.

In my case it started when I updated to 2023.2

I’m on threadripper, but not sure if it happens on my Intel PC.

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I might try to convert some big scene that hangs into Vray with VrayBitmaps or something else to see if same happens.