"MaxMSP has stopped working"

Hey, I have a Mac running Max/MSP so I can't tell you exactly what to do, but I have had similar problems and managed to solve them in a couple of ways. First, I don't know if there is similar to something like this in Windows, but I ran Disk Utility and repaired the permissions on my hard disk and restarted and that fixed it. Also, once I made a patch and accidentally gave it the same name as an existing Max object. The program wouldn't even start but when I renamed that patch everything was fine. Finally, I have found with some programs that if you have .plst files from older versions laying around on your hard drive that can confuse the system. On a mac you can find them in /Users/[name]/library/preferences and in /library/preferences. Hope this helps and good luck!
-Diane

Hello,

Thank you so much about your message!

I tried to find settings from registry, but they were located in "C:Users[UserName]AppDataRoamingCycling '74Max 5 Preferences Files". After renaming this folder to "asdf" MaxMSP started fine and created new settings files which do not crash it.

Thank you one more time and I wish you have a nice Sunday there!

--Oskari

No problem, happy I could help!

hI am having this problem too, but the fix described does not work for me. Max crashes before making the prefs folder. Also on Vista ultimate. Faulting module in the system log is kernel32.dll.

Max 5.0.5 worked fine on this system, as did 5.0.6 right after installation.

FIXED: turned off DEP for Max. Another video program was having the same problem, I suspect a bad codec somewhere.

hi, I am using Max 5.0.7 on a Sony Vaio Laptop (NS20E) with Windows Vista Home Premium (service pack 1) and an external soundcard, which is an ESI MAYA 44 USB.

I have the latest drivers for Windows Vista and my soundcard, but I'm having major problems running MaxMSP 5 for any length of time. It crashes every few minutes, or less. It seems to crash whether I have audio running or not, but more often with audio running. I've tried optimising my laptop to give priority to Background Services and I've turned off all the graphics/animated things Vista does. I've also edited MSConfig so that only the essential programs are running, as far as I know.

Max 5 + my Maya 44 soundcard worked fine on my previous Sony Vaio Laptop (which was half the spec of this one and was running Windows XP).

I've also searched the forum archives and can't find anything specific that solves this problem. Perhaps there are some obvious things that all Vista users have to do when they install Max 5, that I'm just not aware of??

Can anybody help me with this?

I am looking to use Max 5 for a college performance next week and really need it to work asap. Although it maybe possible for me to borrow an Apple Mac for the performance, I'd really like to get this sorted for future performances and patch building.

Cheers in advance!
Martman

PS. here's the beginning of my patch. I have done more since this, but even this basic patch is causing random crashes:

If you change audio drivers does it still crash?

-A

Here's the error message from Vista:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
Application Name:    Max.exe
Application Version:    5.0.7.38327
Application Timestamp:    49e3895b
Fault Module Name:    groove~.mxe
Fault Module Version:    5.0.7.38327
Fault Module Timestamp:    49e38cf7
Exception Code:    c0000005
Exception Offset:    000017a0
OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:    2057
Additional Information 1:    fd00
Additional Information 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3:    fd00
Additional Information 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Hi Andrew, the patch I copied earlier (the basic loop thing) is now running OK, bizarrely, but this patch crashes after a few seconds with my MAYA external soundcard and lasts just over 3 minutes with my internal/standard 'directsound' soundcard drivers:

So yea, it still crashes after I change the soundcard drivers.

If you increase your buffer size in DSP status, does it still crash or take longer to crash?

-A