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lexfoo
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3DS Max

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A Thread dedicated to people trying to run 3DS Max in a Windows 10 host guest * with MaxOS as native OS, for whatever reasons.

VirtualBox 6.1
Windows 10
3DS Max 2020
Macbook Pro 2017-ish
Radeon pro 560

The only config that worked for me:
- Turn off 3D acceleration in Virtual Box Display Settings.
- In 3DS Max, set viewport driver to OpenGL / Start 3DS Max with the -vo parameters.

Nitrous will work but the materials don't show up in the viewports, instead everything is rendered in checkers pattern in the viewport.
Last edited by scottgus1 on 9. Apr 2021, 18:41, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: * changed 'host' to 'guest'
mpack
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Re: 3DS Max

Post by mpack »

What is "MaxOS"?? Do you mean MacOS? Do I gather that you are running MacOS in a VM under Windows 10 running as host on a Macbook Pro?

Or is Windows 10 the VM?

Either way the forum choice is suspect.

Turning off 3D acceleration means only software rendering is available, and only Windows built-in OpenGL, which is a 1.1 implementation circa 1995: Microsoft really don't want people using OpenGL instead of Direct3D. OpenGL 1.1 would be crippling: that old fixed function pipeline is not built for speed even if it wasn't software rendered.
lexfoo
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Re: 3DS Max

Post by lexfoo »

Updates:

Virtualbox: 6.1.18 r142142 + Guest Additions
Host: macOS Big Sur 11.2.3
Guest: Windows 10 Pro 19042.867

Virtualbox settings:
- 3D acceleration turned on

Windows settings:
- Personalization > Colors > Transparency turned off

3Ds Max settings:
- Nitrous Software works
- Nitrous Direct3D 9 will cause an error during startup, even though DXDiag reports DirectX 9 feature sets with wddm 1.0

These settings works. Not sure if there's any other config that can improve performance.
scottgus1
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Re: 3DS Max

Post by scottgus1 »

If "3DS Max" means Autodesk's 3DS Max, you're really going to need a physical video card, which doesn't exist in a Virtualbox VM.
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