materials stay black in slate material editor

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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Hi my materials stay black in the material editor I’ve tried all the suggestion from this (added link at the bottom) article without any changes, I’ve reinstalled vray, 3dsmax and made sure i have the latest graphic card driver. nothing works … is there something i might be missing ?

the article i mentioned https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413570284689-How-to-fix-incorrect-black-swatches-in-3ds-Max-Material-Editor

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Try reinstalling the Microsoft C++ Visual Redistributable (a setup file is included in the V-Ray installation folder here: “C:\Program Files\Chaos\V-Ray\3ds Max 20XX\utils\vc_redist.x64.exe”).