does anyone use max 9 already?
does it render faster (64 bit)?
any known problems?
I didnt think it was shipping yet?
-dave
Ive been told by our reseller its not available until sometime next month if memory serves.
Mid October
I think the street date is sometime in mid October. I am very curious about the 64 bit side of the release but also very concerned about going to a 64 bit OS - how many programmes currently support 64 Bit ?
Re: Mid October
Most 32 bit apps are supported and work fine, like max 32, PS, combustion most games, etc. There are a few apps that have old installers that look for the windows version and if they don’t know what Win64 is they will fail but those are rare.
gilicom- all I can say is SPEED, I wish I could say more…
maya 8 ships with 32 and 64
MAX 9 is not released yet!
Max 9 will support 64bit.
64bit ist not faster, but it let’s you use more RAM. So, you can handle bigger scenes. Or render displacement with Vray 
Only Beta testers have been using Max9 so far 
Well i could lay my hands on at our reseller…
only for 15 min… buaaaaahhhh…
i also only could look at the 32 bit thing.. looking for features , i think there hasnt changed too much..
so maybe the 64 bit thing will do the job…
on the other hand, i cant assure, but felt also the 32 bit seems to be faster. but you know … for the poly thing, there have been out also freewarescripts to enhance modelling … maybe they have only built in some free scripts..
lol…
dont know, cant say to much right now. 15 min isnt enough at all.
Tom
I believe Max 9 ships 6 Oct for subsrciption and the week after released officially. At least here anyway…
Max 9 is going to be the revolution 
there is going to be MORE speed not only because of the 64 bit.
and we cannot wait until it hits our mailbox!
Road Show
I was on the Max 9 roadshow, and what they showed us was blasting me away. editing a 10 mio poly head with softselection. it freaked me out. Oh and i got a max 9 t-shirt. So it was worth the trip. I also comes with mental ray 3.5 but who cares we got vray hehehe
cheers
ralf
Last week they came to our office for Max 9 demo. It is promising, definetly viewport faster only with direct X mode, handles large files better, very nice high res texture management, mental ray has very nice features like very easy setup sky/sun , materilas for arch viz people, which will steal some vrayers on the road..
Overall I like it…
what kind of machine did they demo it on? did they say which os? and how much memory did it have?
Ah percydaman,
thats the right question.
of course the demo of max 9 was impressing. But i would like to see it on my old laptop… with my noname grafic card…
if its much faster here… than its worth it..
Tom
Nice one..
On “My Road Show” the had a HP Workstation with a 2 x Dual Core Duo (so 4 buckets) and 8 GB of ram with FireGl 7300, the one with 512MB Ram on it not the one with 1GB. But overall it was pretty cool.
Ralf
Re: Nice one..
cool. did they show at any time, the task manager showing memory consumption, and if so, how high did they send it? No idea what OS they were running?
They showed on an old Dell laptop, nothing fancy but viewport performance was very good. Also new Mental Ray is fast and very easy to use
Tom : Definetly viewport is much faster with Direct X only , looks like discreet dumped OpenGL
They used XP. They said Vista is better, just because of some administration right issues of XP.
They stated that 64 bit Max 9 is not faster than 32 bit but has better memory management…
Re: Nice one..
Are you sure? I didn’t knwo there Intel Core Duo can work in Dual CPU. What mainboard can do it?