Can someone tel how to make work 3ds max 5.1 on W7 Ult x64 ?
During the installation I get the first error and trying to run max the other three.
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it won’t work on windows 7. the earliest version of max that will work on windows 7 is max 9 and that only if it has sp2 for max is installed.

3Ds Max 2012+Sp2 +SAP, Vray 2.2, Photoshop CS5.1
OS - Windows 7 Pro x64 Sp1
sys1: i7 2600k (OC to 4.2GHz), 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 Ram, MSI GTX 580 (3GB) (295.51), OCZ vertex 2 120GB SSD, Wacom Intuos 3
sys2: i7 2600k (OC to 4.2GHz), 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 Ram, MSI GTX 560 (1GB) (295.51), wacom bamboo

Either upgrade your Max, or downgrade your OS (Win 2000 should, I think, work ok). Nothing earlier than Max 9 (with all service packs) will work successfully on Vista/Win7.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Thanks

it won’t work on windows 7. the earliest version of max that will work on windows 7 is max 9 and that only if it has sp2 for max is installed.

Max 7 works on windows 7 x64 (no virtualization).
3d studio max 5 needs virtualization, but it’s works “very well”.

Of course, some features will not work.

We are writing a in depth article about 3ds max and we are checking all versions individually (since 3dsr1 for DOS).

But, yes… to work seriously upgrade your Max, or downgrade your OS, like Steve said.

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Zov 10 June 2011 03:17 PM

it won’t work on windows 7. the earliest version of max that will work on windows 7 is max 9 and that only if it has sp2 for max is installed.

Max 7 works on windows 7 x64 (no virtualization).
3d studio max 5 needs virtualization, but it’s works “very well”.

Of course, some features will not work.

We are writing a in depth article about 3ds max and we are checking all versions individually (since 3dsr1 for DOS).

But, yes… to work seriously upgrade your Max, or downgrade your OS, like Steve said.

Agree.
Actually I’ve managed to install max 5.1 on win 98 SE under qemu.

I have been able to set up render clones of max 6 on Vista 32 and Win7 32 bit.
But it will not install at all on win7 64 bit fyi.

darkon11 17 June 2011 04:33 AM

Zov 10 June 2011 03:17 PM

it won’t work on windows 7. the earliest version of max that will work on windows 7 is max 9 and that only if it has sp2 for max is installed.

Max 7 works on windows 7 x64 (no virtualization).
3d studio max 5 needs virtualization, but it’s works “very well”.

Of course, some features will not work.

We are writing a in depth article about 3ds max and we are checking all versions individually (since 3dsr1 for DOS).

But, yes… to work seriously upgrade your Max, or downgrade your OS, like Steve said.

Agree.
Actually I’ve managed to install max 5.1 on win 98 SE under qemu.

I was able to install a slave version Max 6 on Windows 7 32 bit no problems.

Steve_Curley 10 June 2011 02:46 AM

Either upgrade your Max, or downgrade your OS (Win 2000 should, I think, work ok). Nothing earlier than Max 9 (with all service packs) will work successfully on Vista/Win7.

EDIT: I guess I already replied!!! Ooops!

Mark Pigott 04 January 2012 03:10 AM

I was able to install a slave version Max 6 on Windows 7 32 bit no problems.

Steve_Curley 10 June 2011 02:46 AM

Either upgrade your Max, or downgrade your OS (Win 2000 should, I think, work ok). Nothing earlier than Max 9 (with all service packs) will work successfully on Vista/Win7.