I'm running a Quadro K5000 with latest drivers, 32g ram, Windows 7 Pro, i7 3930K 3.8Ghz hex core processor all in a box I built myself. I've checked the Autodesk forums and there are quite a few people complaining about 2017. especially the shut down issue. The max script was provided to me by an Autodesk representative who acknowledged the problem. They have some illegal callbacks in their C++ 2015 as the error thrown is not an Autodesk error but a Windows error and they know the issue exists. After a day of troubleshooting the issue I traced it to the 2015 C++ redistributable. A reinstall of that redistributable will fix it for one shut down cycle but the next shutdown throws the error. Therefore the script "get process-KILL process", Well it's not as bad as disappearing verts which I experienced quite a few versions ago and their support response was "we know it exists but we will fix it in a later version".