DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:22:00 +0300, John Reimer <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>

Yes. You can get a serial number at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx
Download is available there, too, but I recommend using torrent instead.