5.5.1.8 - Arnold for 3ds Max
01 Dec 2022
MAXtoA 5.5.1.8 is a bugfix release using Arnold core 7.1.4.1. For the full list of features and requirements, see the MAXtoA 5.5.0.7 release notes.
Installation
- Download Arnold for 3ds Max.
- Follow these installation instructions.
Bugfixes
- ARNOLD-12778 - Fix rare RLM license checkout failure
- ARNOLD-12781 - Autodesk Analytics (ADP) bug fixes
- ARNOLD-12820 - Detect texture color space change without requiring texture cache flush
- ARNOLD-12821 - AutoTX: cannot create folder for TX file error
- ARNOLD-12846 - Crash when checking out license on older Windows machines without AES-NI CPU support
- usd#1357 - Add Hydra env variable to control texture_auto_generate_tx
System Requirements
- Autodesk 3ds Max 2021, 2022, 2023
- Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
- CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
- GPU rendering requires an NVIDIA GPU of the Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal, or Maxwell architecture. We recommend using the [511.09 (Quadro), 511.09 (GeForce) drivers, or higher. See Arnold GPU for more information.
- Optix™ denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.0 and above.
The driver type must be set to DCH.
In the driver page, select "Windows Driver Type:" DCH
The cache will also need to be re-populated after installing a new Arnold version, updating to a new NVIDIA driver, or changing the hardware configuration of GPUs on the system. More information can be found here.