5.8.5.1 - Arnold for 3ds Max
19 February 2026
Arnold for 3ds Max 5.8.5.1 uses Arnold 7.4.5.1 and is a bugfix release. For the full list of features in MAXtoA 5.8.5.0, see the MAXtoA 5.8.5.0 release notes.
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.
Bug Fixes
- ARNOLD-17399 - IPR crash after deleting shapes
- ARNOLD-17489 - Crash with invalid vdb points grid in point cloud queries
- ARNOLD-17494 - Linux crash regression in 7.4.5.0
- usd#2557 - Fix regression when a geometry has an instancer without any instances
- usd#2547 - Changing material terminal is not updated with Hydra 2
- usd#2536 - ArnoldUsd procedural filename is not reported as an asset
- usd#2561 - Fix regression in husk with dataWindow NDC
System Requirements
- Autodesk 3ds Max 2024, 2025, 2026
- Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
- CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set.
- GPU rendering and requires a driver newer than 582.16. Older drivers will log an error and abort the render. Note that you can use New Feature Branch drivers. We recommend 591.28 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