Hello everyone.
I own a 3D Studio Max 8 license from many years and I recently bought 3ds max 8 bible from amazon.com.
Whishing to get my hands on the quick start tutorial, I copyed the ebook on my hard drive from the companion dvd and tryed to start 3ds max.
Upon seeing “inizializing 3d studio max” splash screen, after a few seconds I receive an error and the program crashes for the first time ever from when I own it.
Why?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bye, Berserk.
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System specs? You haven’t given us much to go on there.

Max 4.2 through 2014, Composite 2014.
XP-64 (SP2).
nVidia 9800GTX+ (512MB) (Driver 314.22).
i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

I have a laptop with a centrino duo processor (1.67 ghz), 2 gb ram and an original windows xp home edition with service pack 2.
By the way, yesterday I tryed rebooting the system (because I usually suspend it) and now the problem changed to the end of the splash screen: when the splash screen says “starting 3ds max” 3ds max hangs there and takes forever to load.

Thanks again for any help.

Bye, Berserk.
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P.S.: I also installed the service pack 3.

try reinstalling max

3Ds Max 2012+PU12+SAP / 2013+PU6, Vray 2.4, Photoshop CS6
OS - Windows 7 Pro x64 Sp1
sys1: i7 2600k (OC to 4.2GHz), 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 Ram, MSI GTX 580 (3GB) (314.22), OCZ agility 3 240GB SSD, Wacom Intuos 3
sys2: i7 2600k (OC to 4.2GHz), 16GB…

I will try this evening and let you know later. Thanks.
I probably forgot to mention I have an ATI X1400 video card.

Bye, Berserk.
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I failed trying to reinstall max, as the original CD is somewhere in a box since I’m not at home anymore.
I tryed using an evaluation version and doing a repair installation, but the installer gives me an error about the used 3dsMax8.msi.
What can I do? Will downloading the latest max 8 evaluation version solve the problem?
I would also like some official autodesk support here.

Bye, Berserk.
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Thanks. As far as you know, will the trial version work with a previous installed license if I disinstall and reinstall?
To say it better, my idea is to disinstall max and hope the license stays there until I install the evaluation version I found on the book’s DVD.
Will this work?

Thanks again.

Bye, Berserk.
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I already sayd I have an original windows xp home edition above, however I have a max 8 trial on the book’s dvd.
I’ll try uninstalling and reinstalling then. Thanks.

Bye, Berserk.
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No way, uninstalling and reinstalling the software causes the same error. I’m afraid I just can garbage my license…

Bye, Berserk.
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No way, uninstalling and reinstalling the software causes the same error. I’m afraid I just can garbage my license…

Bye, Berserk.
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