[SteveC116]

I had some trouble with 3DS. For the first few weeks I had both MAX 5 and Nortons Antivirus 2003 installed on my XP PRO computer.

As it turns out, MAX's C-DILLA is not compatable with Antivirus 2003. I was getting crashes a lot, and looking at my task manager I could see that the system processes were being taken up by winlogon.exe. After a lot of searching I found a link to a thread about the compatability issues. I promptly uninstalled Norton and everything was fine from there on.

(NOTE: You can also download a fixed version of C-DILLA, but my Norton was a demo and it was pissing me off).

My buddy Lev, on the other hand was not so lucky. I have a feeling he'll post here because his computer was super crash-prone.

Our animation team used our own computers, so we were constantly lugging them back and forth. His computer must have quit on him. It was overheating and all sorts of stuff. There was also a 50/50 chance that Max would fail upon opening it up and he'd have to restart it.

I have heard some complaints about Max's stability before. I guess you aren't the only one.