I've been using Max and Maya for a while now (over a year) and suddenly yesterday morning, they both began to give me BSODs when launching. I hadn't installed or changed anything on my comp between the last time it worked and it not working.
After trying to reinstall the programs, I also tried re-seating my graphics card and memory, I've updated to the most recent nvidia beta drivers and also tried rolling back to older ones. After none of that worked, today I decided to format and reinstall windows, also to no avail. I've run a hard drive check and memory diagnostic tool through windows, neither reporting errors. I downloaded and installed SoftImage and Blender to test and see if it was only Autodesk products or a 3D issue. SoftImage also blue-screens, but Blender and 3d apps/games still work fine. Since it's strictly Autodesk products, I'm posting on these forums hoping to find some more information and maybe even a fix.
Well, I'm quite aware of how to Google and had seen those pages already, but thanks for confirming that I guess. Just found it awkward that only Autodesk products seem to be affected by this and otherwise the computer is still behaving normally with all my other DCC tools and games/programs. Still not sure why it's singling out Autodesk and was sort of hoping to understand it a bit more on the technical side (like a faulty address in memory that only Autodesk seems to use or what?).
I started having the same problem (with 3ds max and Maya) at the same time. All of my other programs work, including lightwave 10 (which i would imagine to be just as demanding of the computer as the Autodesk programs). Everything worked fine before
The draftsman in our office experienced this on a similiar date. He could run adobe CS6 products but autocad LT would crash BSOD on launch every time. We did a clean install and the exact same thing happened wth only autocad lt installed. Dell is telling us it is a software issue and not being helpful in fixing this issue.
It seems odd for people to have same problem at same time. If the licence service is disabled it allows autocad to partially open, prior to crashing I guess when it re-enables the licenseing service. Just wondering if there was some update or change that may have occured at the end of July, either in autodesk licensing or nvidia cards etc.. I need help cause dell is refusing to replace any hardware. Thanks, Jason
I replaced my hard drive, did a clean install of 3ds Max, and the program worked again. I suppose everyone's hard drive decided to kill itself on the same day. Good luck to anyone having this problem and if anyone finds another solution within 30 days, lemme know so i can go get a refund on this $54 hard drive
After reading Gonzo's post, I formatted my slave drive to use as my new primary and it indeed fixed the problem. I had tested my two sticks of ram individually after people had said it was memory problem, and that hadn't fixed the problem. So it was an issue with my old hard drive apparently. Now it's all working fine again.
I forgot to add that I even bought a new Quadro 4000 card just to rule out the video card being the problem. The BSOD was there with the new card. I put the original card, a Quadro FX4800 back in and returned the 4000 to the store.
i still can't wrap my head arround the fact that these 3 antivirus programs worked but in this order... Why couldn't avast or avg just do this or superantispyware? anyways thanks again. it worked like a charm.
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