[Colonol Dekker]

I just got back from the Gym.
While i was there, i ran into an old mate from school who now works in graphic design. Turns out he lives round the corner from me and he dropped off an old copy of max9. ;D Imagine my joy.
Well i installed it on Vista and it went fine but the dang thing won't run. I just get the "encountered an error" error.
Has anyone else experienced this?

[Hellstryker]

You lucky bastard... No, afraid I wouldn't know, since I would likely sooner switch to mac than use vista...

[achtung]

Tried running in compatability mode?

[Colonol Dekker]

I've tried compatibility to a point, (2000 upwards) I'll have a go at earleier versions, but i'm out on the tiles tonight so i may not actually get time to play with it if indeed it workrs.

In the meantime heres some info for the more savvy people

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   3dsmax.exe
  Application Version:   9.0.0.100
  Application Timestamp:   451d9061
  Fault Module Name:   ntdll.dll
  Fault Module Version:   6.0.6001.18000
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4791a7a6
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   00048a73
  OS Version:   6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   2057
  Additional Information 1:   e51a
  Additional Information 2:   4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433
  Additional Information 3:   e51a
  Additional Information 4:   4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433

[Stormkeeper]

Looks to me that there's somehing wrong with your ntdll library. Have you tried asking on the 3Dsmax forums (if any)?

[Colonol Dekker]

Well as it was given to me and not purchased i'm not sure if it'll go down too well. I'll look up the Neo Terran Destroyer LL stuff

[MP-Ryan]

You lucky bastard... No, afraid I wouldn't know, since I would likely sooner switch to mac than use vista...

Why?

So far the only bad thing I've found in Vista is the user control - which you can turn off.  The eye candy can also be turned off.  My copy of Vista looks exactly like XP Pro did for me (which is to say, much like Windows 98) only with the functionality and stability of an OS developed from the NT/2000 family.

While they moved the access to a couple minor settings around, the OS in general is a decent improvement from XP if you turn off the crap aimed at inexperienced users.  So far, the only real trouble I've had is severe slowdowns/lag of the mouse on Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow's menus, and Homeworld 2 continually *****ing about my video drivers.  Oh, and a minor networking issue that was more to do with my unfamiliarity with the new interface than an actual problem with the system.

[Hellstryker]

You lucky bastard... No, afraid I wouldn't know, since I would likely sooner switch to mac than use vista...

Why?

So far the only bad thing I've found in Vista is the user control - which you can turn off.  The eye candy can also be turned off.  My copy of Vista looks exactly like XP Pro did for me (which is to say, much like Windows 98) only with the functionality and stability of an OS developed from the NT/2000 family.

While they moved the access to a couple minor settings around, the OS in general is a decent improvement from XP if you turn off the crap aimed at inexperienced users.  So far, the only real trouble I've had is severe slowdowns/lag of the mouse on Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow's menus, and Homeworld 2 continually *****ing about my video drivers.  Oh, and a minor networking issue that was more to do with my unfamiliarity with the new interface than an actual problem with the system.

Meh, my grandmas randomly BSODs sometimes when she opens IE (not that she should be using it, but still  )

[Colonol Dekker]

ELLo,

Pubss are closed now, nad ive tries to fix it. but i dont think i can at the momment.
cheers for the help though.

mpryan howd you turn off the constant confirm on vista. that Annots me no end.

[Jeff Vader]

Still drunk?

[Colonol Dekker]

Sobred up now, had to.

I've tried the install on another computer in my residence running XP and it works 100% fine.

doesn't solve my vista NTDLL prblem.

<action hero>[/colo

i'll find a way though..........or die trying. </action hero.>



date=1215209661]
Still drunk?

I will lose this Title one day..........

[IceFire]

Did you make it run as administrator?  Allot of software quite unnecessarily require themselves to be administrators.  In Vista the OS has been changed to run software at a lower level unless otherwise specified.  Yes this looks like Vista is being a pain but really its the other way around and its the softwares fault (if this is the particular problem here).  What MS should have done was make it run like this years ago...Unix/Linux has been like this for ages.

Try Windows XP SP2 + Run as Administrator.  That might do the trick.

[Janos]

My nice suprise I got today was that Jesse Helms is ****ing dead \o/