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Mysterious crash when trying to open a file dialog
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  • m.durlik
  • Posted: 14 June 2011 09:54 PM
  • Total Posts: 2
  • Joined: 19 November 2009 10:52 AM

Hey,

since some weeks i have a real curious bug in 3dsmax.
With less words: Everytime i want to open a File Dialog Window in 3dsmax it crashes directly after the mouse click without any warning. It is like something has killed my 3dsmax.exe process.
In other words: I can’t work anymore. Some examples for the File window are:
File --> Open
File --> Save as
MAXScript --> Run Script
and so on…

The only way i can save my MaxFile is to overwrite my existing File by pressing “CTRL+S”
Another curious thing is, that it seems to happen with random max files. If i work on a new scene everything is perfect, but after a week this problem happens with this scene too.
First i thought that this problem occurs only on my computer, but yesterday another worker of our company had the same issue on a max file, which i have never seen before.
Both of us haven’t installed any software the last weeks.
Another idea was, that we have a new windows hotfix, which occurs this issue, but all of our other machines are up to date too.

Here are my system specifications:
3Ds Max 2009 SP1 + VRay 1.5 SP5
Windows 7 Pro x64 Sp1,
Intel i7 920
12GB RAM
Nvidia QuadroFX 4800 (driver 275.36)

What the hell am i doing wrong?
Please help!!!



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it seems your 3dmax.ini file was messed up. try to locate your 3dmax.ini file and delete it ( copy and save it on another directory as your backup). In my case its located here C:\Users\ myname\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsmax\2009 - 64bit\enu\3dsmax.ini

3d max will construct fresh .ini file when you start it.

Author: ronel k. pabico

Replied: 03 August 2011 03:12 PM