No - it’s a Windows program so you can’t “run it in DOS”. You can start it from the command line, but you’ll get the same as if you double-click a shortcut to it.

You could check in your system Event Log to see if there’s anything of use in there.

Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Event Viewer

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

simply put, your laptop is not powerful enough. even if you get it working some how, your not going to be able to do much

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

I don’t think they intend to rival Pixar… Just do the odd render. I run it on a 3yr old HP entertainment laptop and it does me fine!

Yea the command line didn’t help - as was stated…

Event viewer seems a bit lacking in info… I can open it, then open programs, attempt to open one that doesn’t open unless you’re admin etc… and nothing shows up. The last ‘event’ was 2 hours ago…

There has to be a ‘logging’ switch you can use to see what happens when the program ‘starts’

Revit Trainer
3ds Max Noob - Using 2010 and Looking for any help I can get!

Solved!

Symantec Endpoint AV software was the problem : )

Totally uninstalled it and Max runs fine - just got to get them working together now.

Thanks for all the input

Revit Trainer
3ds Max Noob - Using 2010 and Looking for any help I can get!

If you have a look at my post directly underneath yours theres a link to fix the seymantec Endpoint protection and max problem :)

As long as SEP AV is installed locally and not run via network (which i’m assuming its not being a laptop) the fix should allow both to work at same time.

Seem’s like i’m not the only one with this problem :)

Hope this helps…

Griff

3ds Max -2010 +07,08,09,10,12