Hi,
I just found out that hiding the path for an instanced geometry crashes Max. This is what I did :
Opened the orange tree (from the library) in 3Ds max 2014 ans Gfx 1.9.8 sp3, then I clicked on the eye icon for the oranges (see the attached picture please) to temporarily hide them and that's it, Max crashed. I guess it might be because the instance itself is not in the scene. If that's the case it should give us a warning, not to crash. Since we might lose all our work without having an opportunity to save.
Thank you,
Ashkan