Arvid Tomayko

I've sent a collaborator who doesn't own Max a patch to run for a presentation, but he's having trouble getting 32-bit Max 6.1.5 Runtime to work properly on his 64-bit Windows 8.1 laptop (64-bit Max doesn't have the jit.qt.movie features we need implemented yet).

I don't know the details of his problems yet, but has anyone else had success or failure running the 32-bit Mac Runtime on 64-bit Windows 8.1? Any pointers?

max-runtime-32-bit-on-windows-8-1-issues

More details: he gets this error when trying to open 32-bit max runtime:

Faulting application name: MaxRT.exe, version: 6.1.5.7552, time stamp: 0x52713145

Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000

Faulting application start time: 0x01cedbeed5cd510a

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Cycling '74\Max Runtime 6.1\MaxRT.exe

Report Id: 13b82a2e-47e2-11e3-be9a-008cfa66aa24

and says he's tried various compatibility modes as well, to no avail.

More details: he gets this error when trying to open 32-bit max runtime:
Faulting application name: MaxRT.exe, version: 6.1.5.7552, time stamp: 0x52713145
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc00001a5
Fault offset: 0x05a07bbb
Faulting process id: 0x1984
Faulting application start time: 0x01cedbeed5cd510a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Cycling '74\Max Runtime 6.1\MaxRT.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 13b82a2e-47e2-11e3-be9a-008cfa66aa24
and says he's tried various compatibility modes as well, to no avail.


Just to follow up - it seems that he can run Max (in demo mode), but not max runtime or the max runtime .exe included with max.

The runtimes are working fine in 8.1 for us.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

You'll be able to view Max's startup sequence on Windows - perhaps there will be a clue in there somewhere

from my colleague: "Well, I downloaded DebugView as suggested, tried to open Max Runtime (32-bit), and looked at the last start call in the log. The last call was ad_load. My guess is that this is the process that loads all the externals in the folder "ad", such as ad_asio.mxe, ad_rewire.mxe, ad_mme.mxe, etc. And I suppose this is the process that is crashing MaxRT before it even gets to the opening splash screen. "

For me on XP 32-bit, I get path_buildcache right after ad_load. Maybe there is actually something wrong with that on his end...

...
[2956] startup call: ad_load
[2956] startup call: path_buildcache
...


Max Runtime 32-bit on windows 8.1 - issues