Problems with new G400 XP driver and 3D Studio Max 4.2

[jitcheng]

I'm having problems with the new G400 XP driver when using 3D Studio Max 4.2. My comp will hang whenever I'm doing texturing operations. The error msg subsequently talks about errors with the direct draw layer or something like that. Anyway to get around it? Or should I use Opengl? Thanks!

[Rags]

Re: Problems with new G400 XP driver and 3D Studio Max 4.2

Originally posted by jitcheng
I'm having problems with the new G400 XP driver when using 3D Studio Max 4.2. My comp will hang whenever I'm doing texturing operations. The error msg subsequently talks about errors with the direct draw layer or something like that. Anyway to get around it? Or should I use Opengl? Thanks!

Can you tell me exactly how to duplicate this? If you want, Private message me and I will give you my email address to send your project to and I will look into it on my machine.

Thanks,

Rags

[omegaRED]

Huh? Are you using Direct3D? It suxs on my PC ... i need to use 32bit (dithering .... argh!!!!) plus it sometimes doesnt show the vertices, and has problems with transparency ....

I dont know, the 5.71 ICD works peachy for me (although it IS slower on occasions).

In any case, MAX4.2 should work correctly with D3D, and you shouldnt get those errors ... see if Rags can help, i havent gotten an error like that when i was running MAX in D3D ....

[jitcheng]

Thanks for replying guys and being so helpful! I'll try out the Opengl ICD first and let you know the result....could be incompatibilities of the new driver with DX8 in Windows XP