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we upgraded one machine. 111 processes. there seems to be a lot of stuff we don't need or want. anybody know how to get easily rid of all that 'stuff' ?

I got a call from Autodesk yesterday. They were worried I did not understand their new licensing model and since I have been on subscription for 10+ years were concerned I miss out on their deal for existing perpetual licenses. I told him that I regret paying for subscription at least for the last 5 years and that their change finally tipped me over the edge of cutting the court. Of course sooner or later they will get me as formats change and can't be saved down to older versions etc. But when I look at my one core being at 100% when running max (non-rendering) while the other 15 relax, or when I do robot animations with populate (how many iterations is that tool on ?) or backburner or how cinema4d and even blender progressed over the years - I feel robbed by the subscription. No more revised icon-graphics for me. He did not seem to be overly surprised so I hope he keeps hearing a variation of this customer response as often as possible.

Tony - "Vernor VS Autodesk" was about your ability to sell your software license to a third party (which autodesk doesn't want you to - the only way licenses can be 'sold' is, if a company buys another company - as far as I understand). TB

I am using logmein on android phone. Works great. Nice peace of mind. TB

Try 'Merge' = import a Max file. TB

you are using 64-bit windows and max ? if not, each process is limited to 2GB. There is a 3GB switch, that allows just that - but without 64 bit additional RAM only helps for using multiple applications parallel - not speeding up the rendering. 8x speed increase is also very unlikely. It all depends on how much RAM your scene needs. Your scene might only need 2GB in the first place - more RAM would not do anything. TB

Congratulations! Welcome to the ride Happy for 18 months now

Jeff, I don't know what people did when there were no computer or internet - but typing in weird stuff in google and seeing what comes out of that datatbase is certainly better than spinning thumbs around each other (my grandfathers past time...). TB

Jeff, did you hear about this or were you just curious... Thanks for Sharing! Thorsten Bosch

We kept having problems with region render (plenty of glass and reflections) and used the >crop TB