This one certainly qualifies for "This weeks Der Untergang clip idea"
I have tried installing both design 2010 and design 2011 on windows server 2008 R2 Standard on a dual Xeon x5650 machine. e.g. 2 procs, six cores each for a total of 24 virtual cores with hyper threading enabled.
Max refuses to start either as editor, called by backburner or by distributed bucket rendering.
According to this thread
http://superuser.com/questions/124269/3d-studio-max-and-2cpus-core-limit
there is a limit on the amount of cores mental ray can (or will?) handle and removing the mental ray plugin does allow max to start.
Is this a known software or license limit in mental ray?
Are the any plans to increase the limit?
