DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:47:05 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Thanks.   So you ran at least 15 times with no crash?
>>
>> --bb
>
> About 50 times without a single crash.

Whoa.  Awesome.  Thanks for your thoroughness!

--bb