TheDragon

AHHHHHH... it worked... the bugs that I previously had are gone, upon installation of the new c-dilla system and reinstallation of max. I'm using the pre-update version of max, and don't plan on up[censored] in fear of more problems =) thanks to all those who helped, especially fat fish! Thanx man.

btw does anyone else have any of the bugs I am describing except the liscensing error message on startup before cracking?

The new cdilla 3.23 cdilla patch didn't fix a damn thing. Same error, and a few at discreet.com's forums have the same liscense errors we do in XP; someone said you need to get the newest cdilla beta directly from the makers.. I've developed a real hate for cdilla, and am starting to feel some amninosity towards discreet. Who needs all that security anyway that keeps its key information even after reformatting becuase it writes so far down the hard disk that a reformat doesn't clear that data? What is that about? Sounds about 30X worse than microsoft's xp stuff. Personally I'd just rather crack them both to kingdom come instead of deal with their over-secure foolishness that just hinders the user and creates more work for their tech support/service people since their security usually creates so many problems. By 3dsmax5 we'll have to drive to wherever discreet is located, bring our cd's, proof of purchase, and 30 different indentifications, including our 1992 water bill. Also, the CD's will no longer be sold in paper boxes with their CD key's printed on the inside, and you will not be able to call discreet for one; when you drive up to their office they will have a huge line out front because everyone who has bought the product needs a cd key to use it and the key's will be stored in a maximum security computer in a vault underground and underwater, and only 2 people will have access to that vault, and they take 12 hour shifts, so only 1 person can get a key everytime they make a trip to the vault. Sorry for the mad raving, I've grown quite tired of this cdilla/xp/discreet/3dsmax bug nonsense and I want to finish this scene I was working on =) We need to find a solution, which either lets us put in our cd keys properly without an error message upon initial install into xp (first time running the program I mean) or a crack that doesn't seem to cause some serious bugs in the program. Did I also mention that I cannot view the time slider anymore? Reinstalled, still not there =) cannot move or rotate anything while the animate button is pressed (that would denote a keyframe, which would make a slider control appear above the timeframes, but we can't have that can we?) Someone write a crack and save me =) although, I'm not sure if the crack is causing the bugs as denoted by the post above me... I could very well be 3dsmax in xp, or a bug in 4.2 (which many people are having problems with at discreet.com forums). In any case, I would like to see a functional max where I can make a few things and view a time slider (not even move it around, I just want to see it =) Grr

Thanks to the person who helped me with character studio, I might try that new liscense patch that discreet posted, but I don't think it will fix the move-tool bug, but I'll look into it.

I reinstalled max4 without character studio, and it fixed the crashing at the end and the failure to load an initial DLL. The move-tool bug still plagues me! Can't use max if that's happening.

Ok, I'll try it without character studio and see how things turn out. I'll post when done.

Well, I did get 3Dsmax working, but I don't think the program itself is going to be very usuable until Autodesk resleases a real winXP update. For example, the program can never load the graphics dll (forget its name) in the beggining, always fails to load, didn't have that problem with 2k. Also, it crashes every single time when I try and close it. No biggie, I have everything saved and want to close the program anyway, it just decides to close in a less gracefull manner than intended =) Finally, THE most annoying bug I have ever seen: the move tool randomly switches to some unknown mode of functioning while I'm working on a project. After awhile, it will no longer move objects to the right or up, only to the left and down from its original position. The coodinates while moving go into the positives, but its like a parabola approaching 0: it hits the original location and then starts going left again. And the movement is parabolic too, as in the farther you drag it the more it skips (very annoying, I can shift it maybe 3 positions before it flys offscren). Ugh. Unless theres some hidden coodinate system the move cursor uses and I'm somehow unknowingly modifying it REPEATEDLY, Autodesk has many a bug to fix. Everytime I restart the program the move tool is fixed, and then starts functioning improperly after about 3 minutes of work. I thought I could live with it, just typing in coodinates manually, but once I got to the stage in my scene were I need to use finesse with a camera, I could not live with just typing in coodinates. I know the operating system is in its betas, but I do hope they can fix everything by the time the OS is released.

The current version of Partition magic that I own will not run unless its under windows 2000 (I had it installed on 2k before I upgraded and now have it installed in XP). I ran it in compatibility mode and made the neccesary changes to the partitions, which requires a restart. Upon restart, Xp gives me an error message that a program is missing (which was called by Partition magic pro, something _mount) and then continues to boot up. No partition changes have been made when I get back into windows. Partition magic pro obviously needs some utility that it calls on startup when making the partition changes that only windows 2000 has present. I do not want to compromise the integrity of my hard drive/xp installation by forcing partition magic to work under tricky conditions. I was wondering if anyone has gotten it to work reliably, or if there is another solution for XP partitioning users =) I currently have a few linux partitions on my hard drive I would like to nuke, as well as my main windows partition with all its data on it. I want to kill the linux partitions (so something has to recognize what they are and be able to delete them) and then resize my main partition without losing the data, which is what partition magic used to be able to do. If anyone could provide help on this, I would appreciate it.