Autodesk have finally released Service Pack 1 for 3ds max 8. It includes a number of fixes across several functional areas, including Biped, Batch Render, Hair, Material Editor, Maxscript, Script Controller, SDK, Snaps, UV Unwrap and mental ray.
Service Pack 1 released
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Typical, I post the news, and I am one of the only people I know of that install the SP and then can’t use Max any more. Once I uninstalled it, everything works again…
It turns out I should have installed XP SP2 first, then everything works…
Sulution:
Just run: “Change graphics mode” select software and it will start works 🙂