OK, finally NVidia released its performance drivers for Max2010. With all the promises that there would be no difference between Max2010 and Max2010 Design, the installer does NOT see Max2010 Design.....COME ON !!!!

Same problem here mate, thats again so ridiculous!!!

Before Autodesk fixes this, you can do this:

extract the files form the Installer/Archive, locate the file 3dsmaxpd.drv and copy the file to your 3ds max design 2010 directory.

This worked for me.

Thanks a lot. Helped indeed :)

Sorry mate, not for me.

When i start the installation process everything runs automatically.
I see the window but i can not interrupt the extraction process.

Using Vista 64 Bit

Any tips?

Edit : Okay got it working now - thanks for the advice mate
Could anyone of you confirm a benefit?

Just click right on the EXE and extract !!

You should extract the files manually with 7zip, for example.

Yep i extracted the file with Winrar…

To be honest, i can not recognize any difference now
will do some further tests....

could someone please post a link to the drivers, google isn’t getting me to them.  Nor is the nvidia site.  Mongrel!!!

Here.
You need to tell it what card you have and which OS, then it shows you the driver.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/Quadro_winxp_x64_191.66_whql.html

So...where does it say that this a “performance driver” for Max 2010?

I tried this driver and couldn’t set my monitors to 1900x1600 like they are now. In fact I have 2 identical monitors and the only way I could get a display on both was to go into some sort of television mode. When I did that the one monitor was displaying what looked like 800x600. The whole windows desktop would scroll when the mouse was moved to any outer edge of the computer monitor. Very unusable!

This is very dissapointing. I have had issues with the last few drivers from Nvidia...ever since I got the shiny new FX4800.

Dean

Max Design 2012 SP2 / Win 7 Pro
NVidia Quadro FX 4800 x 2 (non sli)
HP Z800 - 2 Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz; 36 GB ram