OT - Re: DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

Sergey Gromov snake.scaly at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 05:45:56 PST 2009


Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:10:08 +0000 (UTC), John Reimer wrote:

> Hello Sergey,
> 
>> Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:17:16 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
>> 
>>> 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).
>> Yes I can.  From the first try.
>> 
>> I've got an XP Home laptop, core 2 duo at 1.83GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce Go
>> 7600.  DWT is trunk r119.  Derelict is trunk r308.
>> 
> 
> I know this is off topic, but...
> 
> That's almost a waste of the Core 2 running it on XP Home Editon, isn't it?
> 
> I believe you  need XP Pro to take advantage of the multi-core.

That depends on what you consider a waste.  V-ray render utilizes both
cores to 100% happily.



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