3Dsmax 5 Plugin Problem

[erilaz]

I suggest asking the discreet forum or your reseller about this one. Seems a bit odd to me.:hmm:

[SyDemon]

Ok, I've updated my max 5 to 5.1, it says on the readme that when the plugin is loaded, its supposed to show "unloaded" on the plugin manager.

I did not mention earlier that I installed the free version of V-ray and tried to get it working. It's stated as "unloaded" in the plugin manager for V-ray, so according to the readme its supposed to be loaded.
I could select V-ray renderer on my render dialog, but when I tried to render a sphere max simply crashes, showing a grey patch of unrefreshed window area where the rendered image window is supposed to be.

I did check the help for the V-ray and came across these words:

[MAXROOT]\VRay40.dll
[MAXROOT]\plugins\VRender40.dll
[MAXROOT]\plugins\VRayNet40.dlu
[MAXROOT]\VRSpawnServer.exe
[MAXROOT]\vraydummy.max
where [MAXROOT] is your Max root directory. The 'plugins' directory can be any of the plugins directory included in your standard max plugins.ini file.
Note:The Basic package installation does not include VRSpawnServer.exe, vraydummy.max and VRayNet40.dlu

The files listed are supposed to be the files that must exist, but the files that I have after installing V-ray doesn't match the mentioned files at all.

The installer I downloaded is from www.vrayrender.com
I would appreciated it greatly if anyone would help me out on this, thank you.

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