3dsmax 2017 crashing a lot?

NAIMA

Dunno if this is normal but I am crashing every now and then everytime I am working with opensubd on top of a stack of modifiers and when I go editing verrtices down in the stack or edges , it can cause sometimes crash , to fix I need to delete the opensubdv and reapply ...

Is that normal or happening to others ?

pior

It is normal for any software released on a yearly cycle to be buggy for at least a few months or more. Save yourself some trouble and don't use the latest release unless you really have to.

Sorry for not directly answering your question, but keeping this sort of stuff in mind can save one quite a bit of trouble.

spacefrog

There might be some bug lurking in Max2017's  opensubdiv stuff if it crashes for you regularly when working with the opensubdiv . But it could as well be something special for your installation/machine. I general it'S the best thing to follow Pior's advice...
Recently i just started to use Max 2016 ( sticked with Max 2014 before), and was totally happy and impressed with it's stability, even better than Max 2014. But of course it took 3 servicepacks to come to that point, SP1 and SP2 of Max 2016 were barely usable, each one  because of a single, specific but serious bug ...

NAIMA

well for me is just 2011 or 2017 . and after trying the amenities of the second and learning them I can't really go back to 11.
Didn't see any service pack for 2017.

thomasp

well then you just have to adapt your workflow, hold out for fixes and avoid using opensubdiv in this manner (for now).

NAIMA

but is it just to me that opensubdv crashes? Also I do not nderstand why untill the other day it worked fine, culd it depend that nw I amsegmenting my model and using more than one open subdiv on each separate piece in the scene?