3ds max 8 opengl viewport error

CMB

I'm now on a new system(a 9150 dell) that has been partitioned.
I'm using 3dsmax 8 on here with default viewport drivers and a diffuse ,specular level and specular color maps. I heard somewhere that directX9.0 viewport drivers let you see the specular without rendering. So I try that, no luck.
Then I try OpenGL. I restart max and I can't push any buttons or open anything! how can I fix this?

EarthQuake

You have to actually set up a shader for it, not just add the images in the mat editor, if you have a standard mat all you will be able to see them in is renders. Ben cloward has a nice shader for doing that sort of stuff on his site.
http://www.bencloward.com/resources_shaders.shtml

J. I. Stlyes also has a really nice shader for simulating SSS realtime, its quite a bit more complicated than ben's shaders of course.
http://www.jistyles.com/main.php?id=doc&page=hlsl

You'll need to be running DX9 for these to work, and there should be instructions on how to use them on thier respective websites as well. If this dosent help the only thing i can think of is perhaps you have your viewport set to DX8.1 ?

Cubik

Not sure what you are asking for. If you want to revert from OpenGL just insert -h after 3dsmax.exe (or whatever it is now) in its shortcut.