I have two work stations, one is unaffected thankfully but the other has this problem. At first I thought it was 3D Studio but it only happens when Vray is the primary render engine. Both machines are on gigabit networks going through the same switches and servers, all the dongles are pluged into the same server and both of my computers have to travel the same network path in order to access them. I HATE this bug, it can take up to several minutes for all the materials to appear, and editing them is equally slow.
For whatever reason when I updated my Quadro drivers I got the dreaded slow material editor. I did a system restore and went back to the way my computer was when I knew the material editor wasn’t slow and it worked fine. Then I reinstalled the new Quadro drivers again and the material editor got slow again. Is it the drivers? Somehow I doubt it, but looking into the possible causes with the Vray license manager, since I run the manager as a service I went to stop the service and got “VRLservice.exe: Start Error - error 128 is occurred!” So I hit stop again, then restarted it and now the material editor works fine. I’ve rebooted and it still works fine. I really don’t know if this helps anyone and like I said I doubt the video drivers had anything to do with it…but I’ve got my fast Material Editor back 
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Hi,
We resolved this problem by typing in the primary licence server with the windows name (not ip) and leave the alternates blank. and connection ports to default (30304)
hope this helps
Same problem here, veeery slow material editor when working with vray materials and a 2-3 sec delay when opening render scene dialog. Running 3dsmax2008 (quadro performance driver). Really annoying!
Restart the Vray license server…fixes it for me. You don’t even need to restart max.
Turning off my “Trend micro internet security 2009” ( or adjusting the firewall settings to “low”) almost halved the load time of the material editor. Don’t know if this is the case for other firewall softwares…?
BTW: Restarting the license server doesn’t do much for me… Anyway I have no idea how fast the material editor should work. It seems slow even with standard materials. Could there be a problem with 3dsmax2008. Autodesk haven’t released a service pack for this version which make think they don’t care about it or the upgrade from the previous version was next to nothing…
I’m having huge problems with this material editor as well. I’m going to try changing the Lic. Server settings, but Vista is preventing me (user controls). I might have to go with Scanline render previews…
…it’s okay now. Deleted entries for VRay License server, restarted, re-entered server info (but this time I didn’t use the server name), restarted again and material editor is fast again!
Hi
I also had this problem a few times.
Since I have loaded updates and service packs for Max Design 2009, I do not have the problem anymore.
Vray material editor is set as my default.
I have also installed all the latest Max 2009 extensions.
Update ur max and see if problem is solved.
Think there were quite a few bugs in initial max release
This one did it for me. The mat editor was god awful slow
!!!Mathsurf 2.0!!!
Found that this plugin slowing Material Editor. In small scenes ME works fine, but when adding more objects - 4-6 seconds for each slot appearing.
I removed it and fast ME came back!
Hope it helps somebody!
Thats whats causing it, looks like i have to get rid of mathsurf…thanks for the tip.
vrlsevice start error
I’ve had this problem twice in 2 days now.
Max has been running all day..then all of a sudden, ME won’t open and hitting f10 for render settings takes forever…so bad I have to exit max.
I check the localhost:30304 and it is in >>deny<< mode with no licenses showing. I should have Vray and VrayRT licenses showing. I terminate the vrlservice from the task bar, and when I try to launch it again I get this error:
program needs WIBU-BOX with ######:#######
vrlservice.exe start error
(I ### out the numbers for the dongle as I’m not sure if that is a secure code or something)
Anyway I have to reboot the machine to get the service working again. This only started happening a couple of days ago when I upgraded the dongle for the vrayRT.
It is not very likely that this is problem of the license server itself; you can try to move the dongle to a different USB port of the same machine, or to another machine in the network, if possible. If you still have issues, please email us to vray@chaosgroup.com as it might be that the dongle must be replaced.
Best regards,
Vlado
Vlado,
I will monitor the situation and do as you suggest if it continues.
I’m not sure if this is related but when it is working and I getstatus from the localhost:30304 I see my Vray license and VrayRT license but the I get these 3 lines just before the dongle info, is this correct?
Default access: DENY
Explicit allow
Explicit deny
thanks
This is correct, yes - these are the normal values.
Best regards,
Vlado