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At the time it came out, gmax was basically 3DS MAX 4.2 with rendering turned off and import/export restricted. That left it unusable without the host package that SiegeMax provided, which put back a single-purpose export. The import scripts were done by the mod community (although the author subsequently went to work for GPG).

However, the same import scripts would work in the full 3DS MAX and you could pass meshes back down to gmax via 3ds format, and convert to asp/sno there. For DS2 it was possible to export directly from the full 3ds max, as the exporters were available compiled for all the supported MAX releases. The asp files have a version header, and the early releases can't use later version of the asp format, so if you use the DS2 exporter for 3ds MAX, the results won't work in the DS1 engine.

It may be easiest to get the gmax working and leave the full 3DS MAX alone. The extra features of the full product are things the game can use. What error did you get when you tried to use it? I've had gmax crash when the video driver was buggy, but one of the choices (or more) would work on any machine I've tried it on.