Hello, I would like to brainstorm an issue that has not be solved for about a year. Why am I here. Well I have been asked by many others to try and get any version of 3DsMax working on wine, I have picked Max 9 32bit. However the current release version from Autodesk is 3DsMax 2012 I currently use Ubuntu 10.10 and Wine version 1.3.37 and will stick with this release as I dislike unity. I have also posted on the Wine Thread on ubuntu forums. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11661461#post11661461 Moving on from what I said on that board, I get some wine bugs - for those interested in the console output look here - http://pastebin.com/qLmqcxbD Onwards and upwards - :) Other needed stuff like msxml3 and cc580 I already have dotnet20 installed with d3dx9_26, d3dx9_39, devenum, dinput, dinput8, dsound, dxdiag, msscript, riched20 I know some of this looks overkill but I also copied the Fonts from the Windows XP's folder into the wine's windows Fonts folder as I have noticed a lot of other apps depend on these being there. .... k@devbox12:~/.wine/drive_c/3dsmax9Trial$ winetricks msxml3 cc580 Code: Executing w_do_call msxml3 Executing load_msxml3 Using native override for following DLLs: msxml3 Executing winetricks_early_wine regedit C:\windows\Temp\_msxml3\override-dll.reg Executing wine msiexec /i msxml3.msi fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x60613064) stub err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination fixme:msi:ControlEvent_SpawnWaitDialog Doing Nothing fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x60613064) stub fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0xcad5c8) stub Executing w_do_call comctl32 comctl32 already installed, skipping You opted in, so reporting 'msxml3 ' to the winetricks maintainer so he knows which winetricks verbs get used and which don't. Use --optout to disable future reports. Ok now the main Setup.exe and directx 9c stuff next Edit ---- Code: err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination This will scroll continuously in the terminal when DirectX9c is being installed, My best guess was to wait this out - 7 mins later I get to the next window. The Autodesk 32bit Trial Installer... Read and Accept the agreement - Press Next and wait. Edit ---- Name and Standalone - Press Next and wait for the window to change as at it goes dark for 4 mins. Next window untick the following. Help files. Additional Maps. Architectural Materials Then press Next, Next and Next again.. Installer looked like it was doing well but now I feel like a Muppet, I am looking into these 2 errors Code: err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"StartServices" returned 1627 err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1627 fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x60613064) stub err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x7a38d5c8) stub Read more - Click http://pastebin.com/z7ASJ2Sx ("http://pastebin.com/z7ASJ2Sx") ... I am wondering what next to try? and what I can do about some of the services not registering?