Emachines 400 celereon wit 4mb onboard video memory and 256 mb ram running 98..... it runs fine on mine.

Hehe, awwwwww yeah trashedman.

at work though i have a 10 2ghz p4's with half a gig or ram, 80 gig hard drives and 64 mb ati cards wit burners and a t3 connection :P

I ran if for a few months on my Athlon XP 1700 with 256mb ram and a Ge2 MX in Win2k. Never had it crash on me.
It so could have used a better video card and more ram tho..


Wetzel
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/me is listening to E:\Carbon Leaf\Echo echo\Carbon Leaf - 11 - Desperation Song.mp3

Ok, I finally got all the updates and got it running on both my machines. Runs great on both:

Tower:
Home-made from the ground up
Win XP Pro
Dual P3-450
768 megs ram (the old 100mhz stuff)
Matrox G400 Max 32meg
10 gig, 30, and 60 gig hard drives
2 cd burners and a dvd-rom

Laptop:
Dell Latitude C840
Win XP Pro
P4-1600
256 megs ram (ddr PC2100, not rambus)
Geforce 4 440 Go (it's the laptop version of the gf4) w/ 64 meg ddr
40 gig hard drive (laptop hard drives suck...)
a cd rom (yeah, I know... I need the cdrw/dvd)

The only thing that I've noticed a problem with is that my laptop needs more ram... Max is a ram HOG and it keeps using the swap file on the hard drive in my laptop, which is SLOW. Max itself seems to run fine w/ no hiccups, but I can't run anything else at the same time.

I checked prices on the ram for my laptop at pricewatch.com and found 512 meg sticks for $214 shipped, that makes $428 for a gig. If anyone knows where I can get this stuff cheaper let me know please.

-GH
I finally get max 4 running, and then they come out with max 5...

First off, a big AWWWWW YEAH! goes out to trashman, lol. Nice dude, at school I'm looking foreward to getting about 25 new dells for our visual computer modeling lab...network render em all together = instant fun for the lab managers (i.e. me and kev). Hehe, that's gonna be kickin comes competition time!

GilaHacker: check out crucial.com, thats where i got my ram for my laptop from. What's really cool is they gurantee it'll work with your system. Also, watch out, I upgraded my HP when I got it to 512, because it won't take any more than that (the mobo won't support any more). Not saying yours won't..just be careful u don't buy waaay more than you can hold (BTW, crucial will tell ya how much you can hold under the system stats after you look up your model number. Plus, their cheap because their actually a divison of Micron (the only people who make DDR ram).

And here's all of my stats for my comps (while we're at it)

Home Tower (Built from the chasis up):
Windows 2000 Profesional
Dual Athlon Mp 1600
512 Megs DDR 2100
Radeon 7500 64 meg ddr
Tyan S2460 mobo (MP chipset)
60 gig hard drive (ITS CLICKING, NOOOO!...must call maxtor)
Plextor 16x with buffer-underun protection
Pioneer s106
Antec SX1030b Case (Pretty!)
7 80 mm fans to cool it down...it gets hot in there! (and it sounds like a freaggin jet when it starts)

Laptop:
Hp Pavilion n5470
Used to running XP Home...but after being in for service, HP restored the hard drive, and they've finnally made a 2000 driver pack, so now its 2000
Gig athlon 4 chip
512 megs of 100mhz (:( too slow)
20 gig hard drive (too freaggin slow! 5400 rpm...)
8 meg Trident cyberblade (yeh, bring on the "haha's!"..I know it's no good)
CD-RW/DVD Combo drive (8x...it came with a 4x, but after the 3rd rerepair, yes third rerepair on the laptop [with the cd drive still being broken when it got back everytime but the last] they swtiched it out)

So far, MAX has run great on all my machines! The only problem I seem to have is hardware problems, lol...I guess I gotta start spending some more cash to buy the higher end parts...these home parts just aren't cuttin it anymore. I just run em too hard!

3DS MAX 5 system requirements are large. 256 mbs RAM minimum with 1 gb RAM recommended. That's a lot of RAM.

From what I've seen, this isn't the case any more....at the place I work, we have some 333 DDR with Samsung stamped on the chips, and not the telltale MT...

Well, I *think* (not positive) but im pretty sure Micron is still involved...I think they manufacturer a component of it, and ship that component of the memory stick to other corporations. I think its the actual DDR chips or something, just they're assempled by diffrent people...But I could be wrong!

Oh, and be careful with that 333 mhz stuff...Im seeing it a lot lately advirtised, but their's no standards on it yet... I haven't gotten to play with it yet, so I won't comment on how it is...just saying be careful with it... If anyone out there is using it, lemme know how it is! Im interested in it (anything to shave off a lil rendering time, hehe)

Until next time, GO TEAM 1101100 (Thats Binary!)

In response to the first post. If u are still having problems with your 29.xx driver try the new 30.82 Detonator that just came out, it may help u some or it may not... ;)

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers


Now back to your originally scheduled program.

::with a confused face on::
 

oh yeah..ever notice how the original point of a post tends to get lost as the thread continues over many pages....
::shrugs::
Oh well, hey, let us know how that nVidia Problem is going (I'm an ATI guy usually..but I'm becoming more and more skeptical of their quality... but i still might be able to help) Good Luck with the detonator updates!

GO TEAM 1101100 (That's Binary!)

I switched from openGL to DirectX... that seems to have fixed the crashes for now, thanks for the suggestion, but thats no longer the main thing on my mind...

As soon as i get a new soldering iron that actually works, I'm probably gonna do that GeForce-to-Quadro mod thingie - I figure I can't mess the card up any more than I already did. A few days ago, I tried to attach my temperature probe in a better way than just electrical-taping it to the main processor. In my infinite geniosity, I decided to put some of that silver-heatsink-gluing stuff on the probe and try to slide it between the heatsink and the geforce's processor. Long story short, I apparantly have shakey hands, the silver stuff got all over the board, and I cleaned most of it up with a q-tip. Don't worry though, the card works, just I had to add another fan to my case to keep it running below 50°C (before, normal operating temperature was 30°, mid-40's if I was doing something graphics-intensive. Without the extra fan, now anything in the mid-50's is a 'normal' operating temperature for the card)

::Hits self repeatdly while repeatelivly muttering "Don't flame the people on the forums everybody reads...Team leader's now watching..."::

We have max 4. It is horribly crash infested. Maybe if it was not a school obtained copy ( it's legal tho )

Attn: Specialagentjim

I checked crucial.com... they don't list a 512 meg chip for my laptop. I know the laptop will take a gig, and I can find the 512 sticks on pricewatch (samsung ones I think), they're just rather expensive.

-GH