Why does Max 2009 use a lot more RAM than previous versions

[Edson Gardea]

That worked.... Awesome!
Thank you Brian.

[Frances Gainer Davey]

The last hotfix corrected the problems with the viewcube that made it crash max. But as mentioned it is a memory hog, so to completely remove it so max doesn't load it (as opposed to just turning it off)

- Open the folder.... C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\stdplugs

- Rename the file AutoCamMax.gup to AutoCamMax.gup.bak
(in case you want to put it back later)

- Restart max

By doing this, Max went from 287MB RAM usage at load up to 257MB. I wonder what other standard plugins we can do without?

[Prashant Sahai]

The last hotfix corrected the problems with the viewcube that made it crash max. But as mentioned it is a memory hog, so to completely remove it so max doesn't load it (as opposed to just turning it off)

- Open the folder.... C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\stdplugs

- Rename the file AutoCamMax.gup to AutoCamMax.gup.bak
(in case you want to put it back later)

- Restart max

thanks Brian, I wonder why they put those kind of useless things in the wonderful software. anyway thanks again.

[James Insley]

Wanted to also say thx!

I'm with Fran... I wonder what else is unnecessary for max to load in my everyday work life...

Has anyone got any ideas about this?