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hi there, i just setup my new pc. i purchased a gtx 275 graficcard and installed the driver from the cd which cam with the card. in the settings i saw that directx 9.0c is installed, the actual version of directx is 11. do i have any need to upgrade to directx 11, are there any andantages in doing so, and if i want to do this, can i install only directx 11 or should i get a graficcard driver with that directx version? thx

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hi there, i have the problem that i don`t see selected polygons in the wireframe mode of my viewport. i only see them selected (highlighted red) when i use "smooth and highlights". max9, vray1.5 sp3a

hi there, a friend of mine whos uses cinema+vray told me, that he has the possibility to render the image and alle render element masks into a psd-file. has anyone knowledge if there exists anything, that i also can do this. i am on max9+vray1.5 sp3a thanks

hi there, i want to configurate a new workstation. the last one i buyed was my first certified one, a dell precision T7400 for 2750 euro. my new one should be cheaper, therefore i want to assembly it on my own again. Proc: INTEL CORE i7 920 Mobo: Asus P6T or Gigabyte GA EX58 EXTREME Ram: Corsair TR3X6G1333C9 (8GB) Gfx-card: Directx Gamer card, which is able to perform 3dsmax scenes with a lot of polafgons(20 Millions poly`s and more)actualy have quadro fx 4600 HD: ? price: max 1000 -1200 Euro 1.)before i bought the dell i always choosed the components from benchmark lists and then my local computer dealer assemblied the machiene. i often had problems with bluescreens, and crashes and never really knew what was the reason for this. how can i confgurate hardware components that "fit" to each other, to avoid hardware conflicts?, for example, what do i have to look for to find ram for my manboard? 2.)i heared that the i7 is getting quite hot, especially with OC, which cooler should i buy(no liquid!)

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hi, i would like to define a view keyboard shortcuts on my own. also i would like to create some commandbuttons by myself. can someone tell me how i can do that? also am looking for a complete list of all keyboard shortcuts. thx

i have a problem by changing the glasmaterial of this cars(dosch 3d cars 2006) to a vray material. aim is to delete all raytrace materilas, worked perfect out of the windows of the cars. the first car has a vray glasmaterial in the windows and shows a distorted result, the other cars have a max material in the windows which do not occure that effect. would be also thankfull for suggestiions where to find realistic 3d car geometry with vray materials.

tried that yet, and got a blank page. but found the problem in the meantime. internet explorer opens the links, firefox doesn`t.

hi, at the moment i am engaged in working me trough the 26 (weeks) tutorials. http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/VI/default.asp they are very helpfull, but i have problems to watch the last 3 ones(week24-26). i downloaded and installed the "GoToMeeting Codec", but nothing happens when i try to open or download the recording of the live online sessions. would be thankfull for suggestions.

thanks for your advices, will give the maxtreme drivers a try, and will post if it worked.

nope, as dell support told me "only!!!" to use the drivers from their homepage. but will try them out as the dell-drivers do not handle the problem.

hi, i have a dell precision t7400 with an quadrofx4600, xp64-bit, 3dsmax9-64bit. i am totally frustrated as i cant use the performance of the directx viewport driver as i get crashes every 5 minutes when working in max . when i switch to open gl everything runs stable,but the viewport performance is slow, especially when adapt. degred. is impossible (for example when i zoom with the mousescrollwheel) i downloaded and installed the latest videocarddrivers from the dell homepage- with no result. i would be very glad if someone has a solution, how i can fix that probelm - or how i can optimize the viewport performance in open gl

sure, but be warned that you will only manage a snowaccumulation of about 3-4cm with it. short desription of my experiences: the activity which has the biggest effect, when you work with this script is to subdivide the object you make the snow on before you operate the script - 20-40 subdiv.are good working values. for me the values in the script didn`t have any influence on the snow, out of the blurry ones. in the end i left them on default. http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/snowmaker

hy, i can`t get the shadow render element make to work in max9, very simple scene with 2 boxes, 1 directlight with raytraced shadows, render elements active, render with scanline...get a pure black rendering for the shadow render element. with max 8 + same scene + same settings i get a perfect shadow mask... would be thankfull for suggestions.