Not yet, but if it is a problem for you, please email me to vlado@chaosgroup.com
Best regards,
Vlado
Regarding xp64, I’m also not happy… Same issues with a relatively new hp printer, I got it working with the driver of a deskjet990c, meaning I can not select any of the advanced options of the photosmart printer…
The huffyuv and panasonic dv codec don’t work.
My previous pc is useless for rendering since it’s 32bit. (glad I didn’t own a complete renderfarm yet).
Acrobat won’t install the pdf printer.
Winzip needs a patch to show up in the right click menu in explorer.
Some other programs also don’t show there menus either in rightcick menu (and there is no fix).
Monitors have no xp64 drivers.
etc… (=things I need to discover)
Btw I have the same problem with the material editor, I was blaming my graphics card already…
Hey Flipside, We have been running xp64 workstations for over a year now and have had no driver issues at all!
You don’t happen to have an installer for the free huffyuv and panasonic codec that works on xp64? Would be great 
I had a long chat with hp support about the printer driver, but there’s nothing more they can do right now. I have to wait and hope they will ever make an xp64 driver.
I wish I could say the same as you!
no huffyuv or panasonic encoders. Sorry.
Dont even know what they are! ha ha
I use Mainconcept encoder for DVD output, and there are heaps others out there that work on xp64
I don’t know for codec or what so ever…
For a pdf printer try http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Winzip : try http://www.7-zip.org/
Best regards…
Yeah the good thing was that panasonic dv is free
Huffyuv is a lossless compression codec, it creates files 4 times smaller than the real uncompressed format. It is also free and the fastest I was able to find. (even faster than commercial equivalents)
Even when I find something else, I still need those codecs since I have a lot of video created with these two, so i can’t view them anymore.
off topic / video codecs
I find using obscure codecs is risky, we tend to stick to Quicktime anyways or Flash video since they are so widely available. Most important thing is that your client be able to open the files and you as well. Gotten caught to often using the next best codec…
Cheers
Mike K
I use vegas for video editing. Since there is no plugin to directly render to flv, I need to render to something else first, and convert that to flv. I don’t want to convert to another lossy codec at first and then convert this one to flv, that would degrade quality a lot. I also usually render my poject at full resolution to uncompressed avi, and then use virtual dub for resizing since it is so quick. Instead of uncompressed avi I used the huffyuv codec, which is very common (I came across this codec in any video tutorial or forum I visited). I could use uncompressed avi, but it creates huge files of course. But for now I have no other option.
Panasonic dv is also well known, it’s just a dv codec, there are not that many around and the ones that do exist all seem to have their problems. Panasonic is a good compromise. Since my camcorder uses DV, I keep these vids in dv all the time untill the end, then I convert to something else depending on where the vid needs to go. Since I edit my original clips in virtual dub first (for filters that do not exist in vegas, like deshaking the footage - vids while skiing ), I select panasonic dv as output. I could use uncompressed avi here too, but since it is dv to begin with, and I will edit is as dv in vegas anyways, this is not such a good idea (especially for file size).
Just to say that these two codecs are not that obscure It simply isn’t xp64 ready, like many other things it seems.
Huffyuv is a lossless compression codec, it creates files 4 times smaller than the real uncompressed format. It is also free and the fastest I was able to find. (even faster than commercial equivalents)
HuffyUV is great, we’ve used it for years and years.
Playback can also be ok with it surprisingly, especially compared to playing back an uncompressed AVI.
However, we’ve started to work with Uncompressed QuickTime using the animation codec, as we’ve found .mov is a lot more stable than .avi.
Sometimes projects would just crash when trying to render to .avi… pain in the arse, but QuickTime seems a lot more stable.
I also have the slow material editor prob. Hah, I thought it was just me.
and HP’s site has been promising printer drivers “soon” for months now.
I’m pretty happy with everything else win64, except, I recently discovered that when rendering to AVI uncompressed in Premiere pro 2.0, it works, yet win64 can’t play/open the file with win media player, or win media encoder 32 or 64.
I thought I was producing corrupted files through Premiere, until I finally realized that I could open them on an older XP 32 machine.
geoffc - thank you very much! i had this exact problem today with a fusion comp. I thought i was going to go insane. I should have tried on a 32bit machine.
slow Materials Editor
I have the slow Materials editor too…
I wonder if the new extension-patch from Autodesk which is just around the corner will fix that. And I also wonder if the 1.5 final is somewhat tied to that release???
Nixon, vlado has said that it has been sorted for RC4
I’ve got this problem, and so many more problems with Max 9 64.
Every time i re-open the material editor, i’ve got to wait about 3-4minutes before i can use max again while each stupid little matieral slot takes ages to load. This is such an issue, i use it almost every 30 seconds or so!
I have to wait for a few minutes at the beginning of each render while it transforms vertices; again another problem fixed in rc4.
I’ve emailed and politely requested a fix, but no responce. I don’t understand why other people are supplied with a fix, and some not. We all know that the RC’s are release candidates; i know that there is a risk in using RC4, but there is the same risk in using RC3 or RC2 etc. etc.
At the moment i have some really annoying performance issues that are real hiderances to my workflow, and nobody knows when the next release will be. Is it going to be like 1.47 + when it was practically years before the next official release? I just can’t keep using max this way when i recogn i’m waisting about an hour or two hours a day just waiting for Max to come back under my control…
***sorry for the rant, just getting frustrated…***
SV i realise your frustrated but maybe give vlado a PM he should be able to help out
file link reload problems with autocad. floating point issue x64 ( object enabler) > Autodesk has been briefed. hoping for fix in SP1
We are having this problem - does your FLM suddenly stop working from ADT?
Does it help if you set the ME to only update the active slot?
I try to leave the material editor open, and just move it down to the bottom, without minimizing it. Normally it doesn’t have to regen as much this way.
From what I hear from u guys, 64bit land is really scary 
Will it be - or is it now - worse with vista 64?