http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10787
--- Comment #27 from L. Rahyen mail@science.su 2008-02-18 22:24:12 ---
@L.Rayhen: did you put the file l_int.nls in system32? That's required at least. Also, i used native comctl32 from an XP partition (but that wouldn't really matter i guess) and also used native dxdiagn.dll (but i think you can use builtin as well). I'll add a howto in appdb i think
You mean l_intl.nls? Yes, of course. And performed other steps in the howto too.
I now retried from scratch whole installation process that I described but without using winetricks. I copied all fonts from Windows XP (32 bit), used comctl32, dxdiagn and riched20 from it. Also, I copied msvcp71 and msvcr71 to windows/system32 directory in my WINE prefix (during installation 3ds max installer will try to use these DLLs); strangely, but even without them it can finish installation successfully.
So, even with DLLs and l_intl.nls from Windows XP I have exactly same behavior. 3ds max runs, loads its libraries, and after few seconds of displaying "Starting 3ds Max..." just silently crashes without any useful output in the console.
I can download http://3dsmaxtrial.autodesk.com/3dsmax9trial/3dsmax9Trial.exe and retry with it but downloading such a big file is very expensive for me...
Louis, did you actually retried whole installation from scratch (starting from fresh WINE prefix as I did already many times while testing workarounds you mentioned) to verify that you didn't forgot anything important? Also did you used latest git or latest release version of WINE?
If nothing helps, I will try to download the demo mentioned above...
Thank you for your help!