Stefan Viljoen <rylan@ schrieb:
> Matthias Weißer wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed POVRay 3.6 on my WindowsXP-Box. But I am not very happy with
>>> it. It hangs from time to time. Sometimes it crashes when rendering
>>> (simply no reaction of the GUI), sometimes when editing (access
>>> violation) and sometimes even if I switch from another application to
>>> POVRay. This only happens with 3.6 The also installed version 3.5 runs
>>> very stable.
>> 
> 
> Have your tried the Linux version? I think this is something related
> exclusively to Windows POV. Most likely once again some kind of fault that
> lies in Windows, or the Windows specific code of POV, not in the POVRay
> code itself.

I use the linux version when I do long renderings but still 3.5 because 
I would like to compile 3.6 myself for AMD64.

> I shifted to Linux POV exactly because of what you mention here - random
> crashes (on 3.5) for demanding or long-running renders under Windows. All
> those problems simply disappeared when I switched to Linux POVRay.

I think it has something to do with the Windows-GUI. But I don't know what.

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Matthias Weißer
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http://www.matwei.de

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