   3d max 5 pentium 4 so damn slow
  i have 3ds max 5 and it runs so slow, when i try to load in more than two textures to use, it freezes,i wouldnt be complaining if it were just a 5-15 second delay but ill be waiting there for minutes and its still just frozen,what could i do?[edited by - normalme on February 14, 2004 4:48:04 PM]
  Well, you could contact their customer support.Just two textures..? That's not very good performance at all. I suspect it is your system (or install) that is the problem... What Windows OS? Ram Amount/Type? Hard Drive Setup? Any thing else running in process menu at the same time?For the record, I have never used 3D Max 5... But have used 4 before though.[edit] Spelling.  [edited by - pjcast on February 14, 2004 4:53:15 PM];  I doubt it''s their fault. What graphics card do you have? What display engine is 3ds max 5 set to? Direct3D in MAX I''ve always found to be slow, but the OpenGL implementation is fast, as is the software implementation. If you have a P4 but not a good graphics card, consider using software rendering. ;  ya two, and sometimes it freezes after one,i have windows xp, 512 mb of ram, im not sure what type of ram, im not sure what a hard drive setup is but ill go hunt that information down, and nothing in the backgroundi dont have a special graphics card, and im using the software rendering.   [edited by - normalme on February 14, 2004 5:14:39 PM];quote:Original post by normalme  im using the software rendering.   [edited by - normalme on February 14, 2004 5:14:39 PM]OUCH! that kills    ;quote:Original post by DerAnged  quote:Original post by normalme   im using the software rendering.   [edited by - normalme on February 14, 2004 5:14:39 PM]OUCH! that killsI don''t think so. I''ve run on software mode plenty of times, and since he has a fairly fast computer, I wouldn''t think the problem lies there. Just to be sure though, normalme, try using OpenGL for rendering. ;  Hmmm...I was under the impression that the rendering process (at least in 4, don''t know about five) was done entirely in software.  The choices for software, DirectX or OpenGL only mattered in respect to the viewports. And, since the viewports are only updated when something is moved/minimized/redrawn/etc (as oppsed to games where theres a frame loop), software mode is completely adequete.Btw, is that XP home, or Pro... Though, that shouldn''t make that much of a difference. XP has good resource management (as opposed to say Win98), so it should be a good enough system. How much virtual ram does your system have? Also, if you fired up task manager, and took a look at the CPU usage and Memory usage. Perhaps see how much memory (Physical & virtual)is in use before you start max, then what they are after you start. And finally what happens when you try to load a texture or two.Though, maybe you might need to re-install Max - but I would say that is a last resort. Also, I recommend software mode for the driver... Found that to be much more reliable in 4 anyway. ;  @pjcast:>>rendering process (at least in 4, don''t know about five) was >>done entirely in software. yes, and your impression is true; since 3DSMAX is a hires renderer, it does everything in software when rendering the final image - this is because you can''t really use a pipeline-based 3D render system for raytracing cases.   DJSnow---this post is manually created and therefore legally valid without a signature ;  I do remember something like this at work 6 months back, thier was a bug in a previous version of cdilla(copy protection program) that max 5 used when first released that caused it to hog cpu.I think it was something to do with a conflict with norton or mcaffee products.Thier is a updated version of cdilla they released to fix the problem.If this is the problem you having it can be seen in your task manager from the cpu time taken by cdilla ;  xp pro, i have this problem with the task manager,one day i inadvertently hit the keyboard and triggered the task manager to take away the tabs(for switching process monitorings), and all i can see is the panel where you end programs from(end tasks), no tabs to change the process views.ive tried all the keyboard shortcuts i can think of(alt+key, shift+key, just key, including f1 through f12) and the task manager help file dosnt have any listing of keyboard shortcutsboo hoo   [edited by - normalme on February 14, 2004 7:38:18 PM]