topic Re: 3DS Max does not launch in Installation & Licensing Forum

3DS Max does not launch

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 04:30:07 GMT

Hello and thank you for coming here.

I am not very good at english but i will try my best to explain my problem.

My 3DS Max does not launch... It stucks at initmesh.dlm and i don't know what to do to fix this. There is only one topic about this problem but the answer didnt solves the problem at all. I apreciate your help.

Thnak you again for reading.

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

don_3259 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 09:55:08 GMT

hi did you tried to install a fresh copy of windows and 3ds max both ? let me know...thanks

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

-niels- — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:34:32 GMT

I don't know how to solve that, but there's more than 1 topic about it...

This one is marked solved:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/it-won-t-start/m-p/6499590?nobounce=

Maybe you can find your solution there too?

This is google's list of topics related to initmesh.dlm on these forums:

https://www.google.nl/search?q=initmesh.dlm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=od7kWKT8EaLEwgKvrYqgDg#q=initmesh.dlm+site:forums.autodesk.com&*

Hope you can get it working!

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:51:33 GMT

Thank you for your answer. I looked at the post you mentioned and did
everything that says there, but i still have no clue of what is causing
this problem. I've already made a big search at google but i couldnt get
any info about it. The top two topics winthin the google link you sended
above was not answered either.

Things i have tried:

Then remove all these folders:
C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\3DSMAX\2016
C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2016 - 64bit
C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\3DSMAX\2016
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\3dsMax 2016

deleting only C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax

*deleting C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2017 -
64bit\ENU *
and some others...

Than you in advcance for your help

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

-niels- — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 06:50:16 GMT

Judging by what you deleted you did a user profile reset like @Alfred.DeFlaminis suggested in that topic I linked.

If it didn't help, maybe you also have Windows issues...

I can't really help, best i can suggest is doing a clean uninstall of 3DS Max and reinstalling making sure UserAccountControl (UAC) is set to the lowest setting and Antivirus and such are temporarily disabled...

Hopefully someone else can chime in with other suggestions.

Good luck!

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:39:01 GMT

a few things I find odd:

- your pic at top says 2017

- so why are you trying to fix 2016 directories ? OK, fair enough, maybe you want to clean out all previous versions of Max...let's assume so.

- so it's trying to load Initmesh plugin....but not from C: but from 😧 according to your pic again....

Now I'm not saying you can't install it somewhere else other than C:.....should be possible...but as a safe option, why don't you clean out as much as you can and reinstall and leave it default at C: instead...

At least if in the future there's problem...99% of the times people will tell you to fix things here and there on C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 201x\

and not from 😧 like you have.....as I said, it's not impossible to install somewhere else...but you're just likely to confuse yourself than anything.

Goodluck.

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:51:00 GMT

Ah, sorry about that mistake, i used a soution for a previous version for
this one. it is 2017. Thank you for pointing that.
I will try installing in a different location. I did ot thought about that
haha
Thank you a lot

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:39:17 GMT

I'll try this one too, thank you

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 01:51:17 GMT

Hello,

Thank you guys for the help.

I did a clean uninstall, then installed into "C:/" the 2016 version...

I tried many things already, but nothing seems to work

If you guys figures out something, please tell me. Im already out of options 😞

Re: 3DS Max does not launch

Alfred.DeFlaminis — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:22:15 GMT

Hello @Anonymous and welcome to the community,

I am very sorry that I missed this thread. I will transfer it over to Installation and Licensing right away.

Best Regards,