very long startup time 3ds max deadline

Deadline
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i’ve reinstalled backburner, 3ds max 2011, deadline itself and the graphics driver but still have this problem

The monitor says starting up, The client window says waiting for 3ds max and it just hangs there for over ten minutes when identical machines with the same spec are rendering in under a minute. When i VNC the machine i notice that it keeps flicking resolutions like it can’t decide which it should be

Any ideas how to resolve this?

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I’ve never heard of this behavior before. Is it an option to create an image of a working render node and then apply that image to the problematic slave machine? That might save the headache of actually trying to debug this problem.

Cheers,

  • Ryan