OT - Re: DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

[John Reimer]

Hello Sergey,

> 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.
> 


No, I may have been wrong, I guess.  I was just sure that XP Home didn't 
provide support for anything more than single processor/core use.


-JJR