starkeyart Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I've just switched to 3ds Max 9 from VIZ at my office, and I'm having a few adjustment problems. I used to log on to my office PC from my MAC at home via Remote Desktop to check on and start renderings. I haven't had any luck after a few attempts at opening Max remotely. Yesterday I tried leaving it open and then logging on, and I received the following error: Failed to initialize Direct3D. Please restart 3ds max using the -h option Any ideas, help or direction would be appreciated... as I really don't want to have to run into the office in the middle of the night in case a rendering tanks. Oh - I've already installed the most recent DirectX and updated my video card driver. Thanks, Andrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Probably the Mac version doesn't support Direct3D - this is proprietary Microsoft technology that does not exist on OSX, which uses the open spec OpenGL system instead. Try this - before you leave the officechange the graphics mode to Software (or Heidi - I forget what they called it in Max9) which will bypass Direct3D. This should allow the Mac to access it, but it will dramatically slow down the viewport display (but not the rendering) - so change it back before you do any modeling work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starkeyart Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 Thanks so much for the advice. I'll give it a try tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 i've got it working via LogMeIn (basically a free web based remote desktop thing). its evil slow, but works for the random 'oh shit' moments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 also a fun one to checkout is the winAdmin application for your iphone that allows you to remote desktop into your PC for checking on renderings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I have always had to use the OpenGL or Software mode when using Max via Remote Desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I've had D3D over RD work between Windows computers. Maybe it's just buggy and fails for a lot of people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 (edited) I've had D3D over RD work between Windows computers. really??? I've never been able to get d3d to work with RD. I didn't think windows could push the video through the remote. Maybe it depends on your connection. I'm always doing through the net over a VPN, perhaps if it's possible to do it through a LAN connection. I always just switch to software mode since I've never got anything else to function. Edited September 4, 2008 by BrianKitts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starkeyart Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 I've never had any trouble with VIZ and Remote Desktop, and I've only had Max for a couple of weeks, so this kind of threw me off. Sounds like everybody here knows how it goes, though... rendering at night to get something done for a meeting in the morning. Thanks again for the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 really??? I've never been able to get d3d to work with RD. I didn't think windows could push the video through the remote. Maybe it depends on your connection. I'm always doing through the net over a VPN, perhaps if it's possible to do it through a LAN connection. I always just switch to software mode since I've never got anything else to function. I remote into a few machines within our office, and I had to set Max to OpenGL on those. So it is a little more than LAN or VPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starkeyart Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 Happy to say it worked. I went with Open GL since that's what I was using when I had VIZ. Actually, the speed isn't all that hateful in wireframe and I could make a tweak or two if necessary - but that probably wouldn't hold true for some of my huge models. VPN connection, Remote Desktop, on a Mac. Thanks again. Glad I checked here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ky Lane Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 D3D doesnt work from Mac -> PC, however it works fine for PC -> PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 also a fun one to checkout is the winAdmin application for your iphone that allows you to remote desktop into your PC for checking on renderings. Hey Brian, thanx for the tip...I installed it and set it up, and it worked, I put in my IP address for one of my computers and boom "connected" but only in my house, as soon as I leave my wifi, it says cannot connect to server, There were 3 DNS server addresses, I tried one of those as an after thought, thinking it must have to go through the router, same thing though, cannot connect, what do you think I'm doing wrong ? Must I be connected to wifi, is edge not fast enough to maitain a connection ? I use Logmein and that works ok over edge, very slow, but it works... and Why CAN it connect while I'm at home, is it simply joining my wireless network ? Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorari71 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 It doesn't work for me... No OPENGL...No D3D...Without anything I can open a 3DSMAX v9.0 from the other computer through Remote Desktop...Always talking about PC to PC. The message (in Spanish) is the attachment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 and Why CAN it connect while I'm at home, is it simply joining my wireless network ? Thanx More than likely its because you're connecting to the router at home via WIFI, and your router isn't allowing outside connections to the remote server port (AS IT SHOULDN'T or anyone in the world can see that service on your system) Its possible to tunnel these sort of connections through something called SSH which allows you to encrypt and protect the connection, so that leaving it open to the world isn't as much of a problem, buts its not exactly straightforward in how to set it up (Read: its downright crazy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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