DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

[John Reimer]

Hello Denis,

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:35:24 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM, John Reimer
>> <terminal.node at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Bill,
>>> 
>>>> Here's a modified version of one of the DWT opengl snippets that
>>>> reproduces the crash for me.
>>>> About 1 in 10-15 runs this will crash (seems to be inside the GL
>>>> driver) soon after startup with the error:
>>>> """
>>>> dwt.DWTException.DWTException: Failed to execute runnable
>>>> object.Exception: Access Violation
>>>> """
>>>> Can anyone else reproduce this (particularly Vista users)?
>>>> I'd be happy to send the exe to anyone who would like to try it off
>>>> list.  But it's a 3MB exe  (compresses to about .7 MB).
>>>> --bb
>>> I ran it 30 times with 0 crashes.
>>> 
>>> ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB
>>> Compaq Presario X1050CA laptop with a Centrino Pentium M 1.4 GHz CPU
>>> 1 GB or memory
>> Ok, thanks.
>> 
>> So the "blame the core duo" theory is still looking good.
>> 
>> Can anyone else give it a try?
>> 
>> I put the exe up here:  http://www.billbaxter.com/tmp/crasher.zip
>> 
>> --bb
>> 
> Runs just fine, never crashes for me (I see blue dots in a canvas).
> 
> My laptop specs:
> Windows 7
> Core 2 Duo T9300
> NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M



Is there still a public release of Windows 7 beta? 


-JJR