Slow SP2 install?!?

[jens.diemer]

Wha is it so slow to install the SP2 ?!?

"Gathering required information..." takes many minutes.

There is a user voice request since 2012 and nothign changed

Please Vote here: http://3dsmaxfeedback.autodesk.com/forums/80695-general-feature-requests/suggestions/3137313-optimiz...

[jan.huebner]

Hi Jens!

I will forward this to our development team directly.

Greetings,

Jan

PS: I understand and feel your pain. Had to uninstall and re-install SP2 myself. Took about 1 hour almost. Voted also on the feedback site.

[spacefrog_ · Accepted solution]

use the silent commandline install

msiexec /update 3dsMax2016_SP2.1.msp /quiet /l* update_2016_sp2.log

Regarding the problem itself:

It's mainly a combination of Windows Installer limitation and Max Installer writing insanely amounts of registry data and installer database entries ( biggest chunk in numbers being the Populate package which alone is responsible for around 30-40k single files ). All those entries and files  get constantly checked and re-verified during the patch install because of the way the windows installer patch mechanism works...

Only thing that could be done IMHO is not using windows installer patch mechanism at all for those parts or maybe exclute them somehow from rechecking. But i'm not sure that this is technically even possible, as those are parts of the main "product" install

In my eyes the Windows installer is the worst installer ever invented, as developer i would never use it because all the hassles it can cause

[Anonymous]

What i found out is - if you use the application manager and let it install SP2 it works much faster than manual installation. After the manager downloaded the files it starts and finishes SP2-install automatically within just 2 minutes on all my computers.

[spacefrog_]

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@Anonymous wrote:

What i found out is - if you use the application manager and let it install SP2 it works much faster than manual installation. After the manager downloaded the files it starts and finishes SP2-install automatically within just 2 minutes on all my computers.

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Yes - i heard this from several people now. This is because Application Manager uses the same "silent" install commandline method from my previous post under the hood