Max Flashing Issues...Max freeze...similar to other Posts

[RobH]

I'm having an issue that I've posted at Autodesk Max forum, iToo Forest Pack Forum and Chaos Group forum. It appears to be similar if not exact to several posts here. I list those below my description. I think this is a 3dconnexion issue now that I've explored it on multiple forums.

-------------My Issue--------------
I'm having an anomaly that is crippling me. I've attached a video. I have a scene, start an IPR render and if I click on a few meshes, the 'viewport tools' begin to flash, IPR stops progressing and Max generally just becomes unresponsive. I frequently have to "End Task" out of it.

The attached video shows what's happening. This time Max didn't become unresponsive but t usually does, and when I "End Task" out, I get an Autodesk license warning. However, this seems to be a VRay issue, not an Autodesk license server issue. Not sure about that. But I never get that license warning until the flashing and IPR failure.

I've started a new ENU, uninstalled and reinstalled VRay, NVidia, 3DConnexion and other drivers and reinstalled. No help.

One odd thing is that if I drag the IPR window around, Progressive rendering continues until I release it and then it just fails to progress. You can see that in the video towards the end.

Anyone else seeing this problem? It's crippling my ability to work.


https://vimeo.com/502294518/d44b1807c6

-------------------Similar issues links below-------------------
https://forum.3dconnexion.com/viewtopic ... ing#p41654
https://forum.3dconnexion.com/viewtopic ... ing#p78250

[RobH]

I'm now strongly leaning to this being a 3dconnexion driver issue. I uninstalled the latest '3DxWare64_v10-7-1_r3280' using Revo Uninstaller which also purges the registry for lingering code. After reboot, I loaded one of my problematic files. I manipulated the file for 20-minutes and could not get it to fail, and it's nearly 17million polys. I then reinstalled the 3DxWare64 drivers and rebooted. I opened the same file and within 5-minutes, I was able to get it to exhibit the anomaly. I'll go over and post there so that maybe 3dconnexion will notice it and respond. 

https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-r ... ost1099593

https://forum.itoosoft.com/railclone-pr ... g/new/#new

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/p ... -id/192519

[invisio]

have same problem on my three computers. (i7/QuadroM5000 + Xeon E5 / gtx1060 + brand new Ryzen5000/RTX3080, clean install.)
3dsmax 2021 + Forest + Railclone, (all legit)

But its not the worst problem: have also the camera/perspective flickering issue. My space mouse still unusefull.

Waiting for new driver.

[luping]

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