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JayG 1,164 posts
At work we have a piece of paper on the wall in between our desks that we use to tally how many times we've crashed since April 1st. My count is currently at 29 and the 29th one was spectacular enough that I just had to post about it.
I have two monitors and on one was my Max window and the other was Windows Media player with a reference video playing. I haven't touched the keyboard or mouse in about 3-4 minutes as I'm watching the video, then all of the sudden I look over to the other screen and Max crashes and corrupts my scene file. I lean over to my coworkers and all they have to say is "*laugh* Welcome to MAX!". Honestly, why is this okay? How is it okay that a program that costs thousands of dollars and is relied upon by countless professionals is about as stable as a pipe bomb. For heaven's sake I wasn't even TOUCHING the computer and it crashes. DAMN YOU AUTODESK, FIX IT!
Anyone else have any interesting Max crash stories?
Bleh don't mean to be a big whiner, I just don't see why they can't fix these things. I remember a 3ds max usergroup meeting I went to with Hype where there was a guy there who worked at Autodesk developing Max, and he told us about these longstanding bugs and how to write little scripts to fix them. If the guy knows about the bugs, knows how to fix them, why the hell can't they implement it in the software before the charge all the money and pump out a new version every year?
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts
honestly my max rarely very very rarely crashes and if crashed usually on ram usage on rendering, don't use windows media player (sucks) use media classic or preferably winamp uses less ram and turn off its visualizer so you don't get video problems, as for corrupted files i usually set my max to save with increment every 10min so if it crashes i am only 10min behind, best thing is setting auto save (life saver trust me)
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JayG 1,164 posts
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts
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