Hi, I tried to do a network rendering with 3dsmax 2008 on Vista 64bit.
I always get the error message: “error receiving configuration file”, when I hit the render button.

I tried to fix that by:

- reinstalling 3dsmax
- reinstalling backburner
- installing both hotfixes.
- checking the Registry information.

Anyhow nothing worked!

i’m also in the same position - but i’m using 3D Max 2009 - did anyone give you a solution to this?

Nope.

Anyhow it works with 3dsmax 2009 64bit… maybe thats the solution for some, remember there is a hotfix on some issues…
well, only that 3dsmax 2009 is very slow, compare to 2008.
I have problems to view more then 500k polys per scene using dx9.
In 2008 i had a model with 22.000.000 polys…
What ever is the reason, support is absent.

ok thanks for that.
i’m running 2009 on 64 bit Vista and getting a Error to Retrieving Configuration file for backburner
Did you get anything like that?

I got this in 2008…
There where others who had the same problem in 2009, but I think it was solved with the hoftix.

oh ok thanks. which hotfix are you referring to?

Strange… Can’t find it anymore… it’s called hotfix 3.

i’ll talk to my suppliers - thanks for your help in any case.

its a good thing i have 8G of RAM - it makes rendering time very bearable ;)

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Not sure that will fix the problem… you may need to call Autodesk for help… you might need to disable User Access Control on all network machines that have Vista so that Max can write to where it needs.

Maneswar Cheemalapati [FA]

thanks for that - i’ll give it a go

any websites that describe how to handle this error specifically that you know of?

cheers,
sz

All you have to do to fix this is to simply run max as an administrator and then add a job to net render, from my experience you only have to do this once because max writes the configuration file but the folder the config file is in is locked and you need admin privileges to create files in it.

Here’s how to run MAX as an administrator (if you don’t already know how to)
1. right click on any max icon (shortcut)
2. select “Run as administrator” (click to see image)
3. Click “Allow”
4. max will run and you just add a job to net render.
5. Now whenever you want to net render it should work.