DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

[Bill Baxter]

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