OT - Re: DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista

[John Reimer]

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.


-JJR