max keeps crashing with v-ray

[SandmanNinja]

Max 9 V-Ray 1.50 RC3

 

Hello everyone,

 

I'm trying to be smart. So I don't have to make and re-make furniture for each of my scenes, I'm modeling individual pieces of furniture in their own little file of Max. That way, I can do what I want, get them looking beautiful, and then just xref them in.

 

The only trouble is, max keeps crashing. Hard.

 

But it's only crashing when I try to apply my v-ray texture.

 

Obviously it's either my model or the texture that I'm trying to apply.

 

Is there a faq or a list of tips that I can check? I was up til 1am bashing my brains out trying this, and I got up at 8am only to be faced with the same thing.

 

I am on a mini-holiday (5 days off) and this is day #2. I was really hoping to get some interior modeling practise in these days off.

 

Thanks in advance...

[ericbarlow21]

I usually search Google or the chaos forums and see what I can find using keywords etc and see if I can make any progress that way...

[carlangas]

hi Joel, try changing your max driver from direct x to open gl and see if that helps...

[kippu]

does your vray texture have " show map in viewport " on?

[Sketchrender]

I had an older machine Hpxw4100 , witha quadro 980 graphics card.

The new direct x, even with the new drivers kept crashing it.

blue screen sometimes, just shut it's self down.

so i switched back to open gl, and put back on the older drivers no problem since.

[SandmanNinja]

Hi Everyone,

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

After spending too much time mucking with it, I just bit the bullet and started over. It's a learning process, right?

 

I don't know what I did different - I did the same steps as the othertime - but this one is much better behaving.

 

Just in case, I changed my video drivers from Direct3D down to OpenGL and I don't think it's crashed once.

 

It's a shame that my computer is only 3 months old and already she's 'aging'...

 

Thanks again everyone - I really appreciate your help.