BrianKitts Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) 3dsmax has decided to quit running on my machine. It opens to the splash screen opens a handful of plugins then closes, it never stops in the same place. And it happens to both 32 and 64 bit versions on just my machine. Never makes if far enough to the change graphics menu when I try loading that way. Nor will it run under backburner..... I've restarted, uninstalled, and reinstalled and have the same problem. I'm totally lost.... anyone have any ideas? If I can't get this figured out tonight I'll have to reload the HD with our stock vizdrive image....which i really don't want to do. Edited March 10, 2009 by BrianKitts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Did you delete the 3dsmax.ini? If you are using "useUserProfiles=1" then the 3dsmax.ini will not be located in you 3dsmax2009 directory, but instead will be in your MyDocuments directory, and will not be removed when you unistall and reinstall 3dsMax. Either search your hard drive, and find that file. Or better yet... InstallSettings in the 3dsmax root directory, and change "useUserProfiles=1" to "useUserProfiles=0" and see if that works. Anyway, not sure if that is the problem, but that is where I would start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Thanks travis, that worked...switching off the use user profile did it. when I uninstalled I completly deleted the 3dsmax folder. didn't even think to delete the my documents/3dsmax folder as well, although i did delete the .ini out of there. I guess now the trick will be to see if I can slip back in the backup I made of my .ini and see if all my prefs keep and allow me to keep all my setup. I really don't want to reload all my preferences and scripts that I use. I owe you one next time I'm in town... this time we can hit your punk bar!..... which might be mid april. I'm trying to drag out the timeline on the project so that I just happen to be in town for DMVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Worth a try. Not sure what if Max stores information in the 3dsmax.ini file that will interfere, or not comply to simply copying back. ....and I will take you up on that beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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