FTL: virtual device creation failed 3ds max 2012 32 bit

[Anonymous]

I can't use my product because this message appears, then I click close, but the four work areas doesn't appear
I attached a photo to show you my problem, I hope you can help me please! what should I do? what's the problem here?

[Anonymous]

Are you running into a language problem?
English version or other...?
System and OS specs?
What have you tried?
Where did you get the software?

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if it's a language issue it is supposed to be in spanish because when I entered my country (Mexico) automatically selected spanish, but I don't have any problem having the english verion. My computer is a TOSHIBA, windows XP 32 bits...
I downloaded from the autodesk page, they give students free versions...
the problem is, as you can see in the image there's a message box telling me "this" problem I just click close, then I can use any command I want the problem is, for example, clicking box but I can see the box I'm making, because the work areas stays as yo can see on the image... with the background that was before open 3ds max... I mean thats my only problem, I can select the work areas, I can make a box and modify it but I can't see what I'm doing. Hope you can help me!

[Steve_Curley]

Toshiba is just a brandname - we need the actual specs for the machine, especially the graphics card (or subsystem if it's onboard). At the very least the model number of the machine.
My guess would be it's mobile chipset which is simply not up to the job of running Max.

[stephengabriel]

Looks like it may be a graphics card issue due to the failure to generate the viewports. Locate your desktop short cut for Max, select it, right click and select Properties from the pop up menu. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field and at the end of the field add a space and "-h" without the quotes. Now when you start Max, it will ask you what graphics driver to use. Select Direct 3D and click OK to launch Max using that driver rather than Nitrous. If Direct 3D is already selected, try choosing Software as you are running the 32 bit version of Max. If this works successfully, remove the -h from your desktop short cut or it will ask you which driver to use every time you launch from the desktop. If it doesn't work, let us know your system stats and I'm sure one of us will be able to help you with this.

[Anonymous]

well I think I can't add the -h am I doing it correctly?


toshiba satellite a105 s4384
In system properties:
Intel(R) Corel(TM)2 CPU
T5500 @ 1.66GHz
980MHz, 0,99GB RAM

and I found this on internet
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz ( Dual-Core )
Memory 1.0 GB / 4.0 GB (max)
Hard Drive 160.0 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 4200.0 rpm
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Display Type 15.4 in TFT active matrix
Max Resolution 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
Graphics Processor Intel GMA 950 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0

I'm sorry I'm not an expert on computers 😕 that's the reason why I'm asking for help.

[stephengabriel]

In the Destino: field, add the -h at the end of the line so it looks like:

"C:\Programa\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\3dsmax.exe" -h

[Anonymous]

toshiba satellite a105 s4384
In system properties:
Intel(R) Corel(TM)2 CPU
T5500 @ 1.66GHz
980MHz, 0,99GB RAM
and I found this on internet
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz ( Dual-Core )
Memory 1.0 GB / 4.0 GB (max)
Hard Drive 160.0 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 4200.0 rpm
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Display Type 15.4 in TFT active matrix
Max Resolution 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
Graphics Processor Intel GMA 950 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0
I’m sorry I’m not an expert on computers 😕 that’s the reason why I’m asking for help.

[Anonymous]

Oh! ok I tried also in the destino field but I did it inside the " "
but well I ran 3ds max, good new, the FTL message box doesn't appear anymore... but I still can't see de viewports... :c

[DarrenP]

your laptop is not good enough to run 3ds max
that intel card is whats killing you

[Steve_Curley]

You shouldn't need to be changing your properties for starting Max.

Start > Programs > Autodesk > 3dsMax 2013 (32 or 64bit as appropriate) > Change Graphics Mode. **
That is already set up for you with the -h parameter.

**May be slightly different on W7, the above is for XP.

Drp281 is probably correct - the graphics are not good enough for Max.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm. Last night I ran into the same problem. (as described in the first post).

I run 3Ds Max 2012 on a Intel i7, 16gb ram, geforceGTX570, Win7 64x. I've updated my graphics drivers & did windows updates last night (including reboots) but that did not fixed my problem.

Also changing the driver modes to Direct3D did not help.

But what I have now as well is when I drag a explorer window or webbrowser window across my screen, I see problems. (like alot of windows when you drag from left to right). So I can say that there is something wrong on my machine, not particularly related to 3Ds Max. I've run my 3Ds Max 2012 for month's now without a problem, it just started to happen last night.

I'm going to do more testing tonight, maybe even a fresh install on my machine, because I want to have this fixed. Interesting enough, my photoshop was running fine...

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Solved! All I did was, uninstall all the Nvidia drivers properly, reboot, re-install the drivers. This fixed my 3Ds Max 🙂 (and all the other problems that I had).

[Anonymous]

Ask,

Uninstall "Nvidia drivers", after the restart, still the same problem ...

There are other ways you can solve it?

Thank you

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I downloaded 3ds Max 2013 and was having same problem.  I switched the graphics to Software and it fixed the problem.  Go to Start>All programs>Autodesk>Autodesk 3ds Max>Change Graphics Mode.  Let 3ds Max start and change the graphics setting to "Software."  I have an older computer with XP and a 128 MB graphics card and this worked for me.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

chose 2 or 3

[Anonymous]

This helped me as well!

[Anonymous]

Thank You Very Much Sir

i Did

And I got Suceess 🙂

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@Anonymous wrote:

I downloaded 3ds Max 2013 and was having same problem.  I switched the graphics to Software and it fixed the problem.  Go to Start>All programs>Autodesk>Autodesk 3ds Max>Change Graphics Mode.  Let 3ds Max start and change the graphics setting to "Software."  I have an older computer with XP and a 128 MB graphics card and this worked for me.

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[Anonymous]

i have same problem, cannot used mode nitrous directx3d 9, and then i was tried to completely the directx3d 9. *perhaps my OS windows 7 doesn't have it

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its worked... solved for me...

[Anonymous]

worked for me thankxxx