5.7.8.1 - Arnold for 3ds Max

2 April 2025

MAXtoA 5.7.8.1 is a bug fix release using Arnold 7.3.7.1.

Installation

Download Arnold for 3ds Max from your Autodesk Account. See Download Arnold for more information about downloading MAXtoA from your Autodesk Account.
Follow these installation instructions.

ARNOLD-14467 - Random GPU crash during JIT compilation
ARNOLD-15983 - OpenEXR DWAA float textures read incorrectly
ARNOLD-15985 - [MaterialX] Parameter with "defaultgeomprop" attribute set overrides connection
ARNOLD-15986 - [MaterialX] Crash when node with the same name exists inside a nodegraph
ARNOLD-15993 - Raw drivers receiving incorrect number of samples
ARNOLD-16041 - [MaterialX] connections to named nodegraph outputs do not work
ARNOLD-16050 - [MaterialX] ND_mix_surfaceshader renders black when assigned from materialx operator
ARNOLD-16053 - Triplanar produces artifacts on GPU with some NVIDIA drivers

Autodesk 3ds Max 2023, 2024, 2025
Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
GPU rendering works requires an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later. We recommend 560.76 or higher drivers.
Optix denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA Compute Capability 5.0 and above.
Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- Intel Xe dedicated and integrated GPUs
- NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures
- AMD GPUs with RDNA2 (Navi 21 only) and RDNA3 (Navi 3x) architectures