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Gmax video driver problems?

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Hoping someone has some suggestions. I'm using Gmax in Win 7 64-bit and Gmax has started crashing in Direct 3D and OpenGL modes. The HEIDI driver (eeyuk :p) still works but is horrible for doing any proper work. FS, CFS3 and 3ds Max still work fine, so it's not a dying video card. Video card driver is fully up to date, DXDiag reports no problems. Crash reports say the problem is in core.dll. I've reinstalled Gmax already but no joy. :mad:
 
Did you update your video driver lately? If so, try going back to the old version.
 
I'd been using the previous video driver for more than a year without issues until this started. I installed the latest driver in case that was the problem but Gmax either crashes on loading a model - any model - or shortly after. It will load in wireframe without problems, but switch to shaded and kercrunchhh. The entire model is only 37K polys, but it also crashes on a 12K poly model.
 
Is it possible to use system restore to get back to the day before your problem occured?
 
weird, technically I have no idea, but I've working with gmax with vista, windows 7 32 and 64, updating drivers occasionally, recently I had to change graphic card with his new drivers, and always working. damned Gmax.
 
Headbanging stuff

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I have reverted to the older tried and trusted nVidia driver: no joy. I have removed applications installed since Gmax worked properly: nul points. I have trawled the error logs for clues: nada. I have reinstalled Gmax yet again: phthbbbtt!!

I then tried opening the file in Gmax under XP - I have a dual-boot system although XP is becoming a memory these days - and it opens just fine. So I can still access the model but I'm not happy, not happy at all. :mad: And everything else works just fine!!!!

Grrrrrr!
 
Thanks Bernardo, but I've already been through all the possibilities in that thread, especially DirectX 9.0c.
 
Solved!!!!!

We have a solution. It was gross material overload: I had umpteen materials for all the bits and pieces, each using the same texture. :o :o :o

I've just finished consolidating all the bits that belong to each texture to a single material, both for the external model and the VC. Each model then had to be merged to a new scene to get rid of all the superfluous materials. Finally the cleaned up external and VC models were merged and Gmax just carries on working. Yippeeee!

Select by Material script was invaluable for this. :D
 
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