I have succesfully created fp weapon animations with gmax and created a cool weapon successfully. But, i just upgraded to a vista 64bit and now gmax will not let me create a skin because of some co-instance or something?? But, for my real question (do not hesitate to tell me if you know how to fix the co-instance error though) is there any other way to make a fp model visible without skining it??

without skinning it? in one context it means texturing, in the other it means rigging

first one, yes, it will appear white

second, ofcourse not, it needs bones

as for the 64 bit problem, use virtual pc to emulate a x82 system or try running in comp. mode, however i thought every 64 bit OS so far had a x82 emulator build in for non 64 bit apps