vrayspawner crashing

[FancyPants]

I am running vrayspawner for DR on several machines with no problems.. but on a new system just installed I am having problems.

 

when I run the spawner the vray icon shows up in the system tray normally, then it trys to load the "vraydummy60.max" file.. I see it in the task bar for a few seconds and then it dies. then it trys again... and again.. and again..

 

the VRSpawner log looks normal until it gets to this line:

 

Process id is 3312 (0xcf0)

11: [2007/Jan/15|10:05:33] Process id is 3312 (0xcf0)

12: [2007/Jan/15|10:05:33] Executing ""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\3dsmax.exe" -server C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\network\vraydummy60.max"

 

which would be fine if it was only there once, but these lines repeat over and over again as it repeatedly trys to load the file.

 

for some reason the 3dsmax dummy file is failing to load, but I can't find any error messages. I'm guessing this is a network issue.. anybody got a suggestion? is there a port I need to open up? I tried killing the windows firewall and anti-virus software already.

 

Thanks

[Jorbu]

I ran into this same issue before. After doing some research on chaos forums, it was mentioned there was a bug on machines where max 7 hadn't been installed before. I can't recall the exact details.

 

Nonetheless, I installed max 7 on my machine and the vrayspawner stopped crashing. I think it just needed an older version of backburner to run properly.

[FancyPants]

Thanks for the reply I will try installing 7, then re-installing 8. I'll post the results in a day or so.

[askdeco]

Thanks for the reply I will try installing 7, then re-installing 8. I'll post the results in a day or so.

hello, did you solve the problem? coz i'm having the same issue, on windows server 2008R2 64-bits

if i run 3Ds max or the dummy file it runs normaly, but when i run the spawner the dummy try to load then 3ds max crashes.

i have more than 16cores and 12GB ram