Forget new features.....make 3D Max stable

[William Day]

As the title suggests....I'm less concerned with new features as there are always work arounds, thats what great about the 3d modeling environment, there is more than one way to skin a cat so to speak.

My main concern with max its how unstable it its, and how it had never been addressed through the annual releases. I have been using 3d max since 8 and I encounter on a daily basis the bug which results in max momentarily hanging then getting the "3d max encountered an error and had to close etc" message. This can be caused by moving a vertex, moving a polygon, undoing several times, or any of a number of standard modeling tasks. Like I mentioned I have used every version off max since 8 and on many different hardware set ups all the way up to 24 gig, hex core machine but it makes no difference.

A little bit of a rant I know, but I am curious to know if anyone else experiences these joys of max :-)

Regards

Will

[Gene Zukowski]

I've been having my issues also. As a teacher I have unlimited access to everything Autodesk produces. I use Max, Mudbox and AutoCAD the most, and have had various problems. I always try to think " what did I do to cause that..." and try not to repeat it. I also save my work (cntrl+s) every couple of minutes. I now use version 2013 of the titles I mentioned, and for the most part they're pretty stable.

[User one]

3dsMax 2013 version is worst. Hope 2014 is good!