I'm using POV-Ray 3.6 on a PC with a 3.6 GHz Intel P4 with 1 GB physical 
memory, Windows XP Home Edition with SP 2 installed. Norton Antivirus is 
also installed and active. Since I have this configuration I suffer system 
crashes when I do one of the following things:

- Render a very large scene and open Adobe Photoshop LE after completion. If 
I use the same software
  without having used POV-Ray before everything works fine.
- If I have statement like #if(HQ=1) in an include file which and render the 
main scene and I forgot to
  #declare HQ in that main scene file my system crashes.
- If I have a parse error in an include file the editor doesn't jump to the 
include file like it used to
  with POV-Ray 3.5. It just gives the error message and I have to search 
where the error is myself.
  There is no crash in this situation but it seems strange beaviour to me.

I know that my report isn't exactly what should be in a bug report but I'm 
too much afraid of messing up my whole system to try the critical situations 
on purpose. So I just have the simple question if somebody else experienced 
similar difficulties with the same system configuration or if I'm the only 
one. If this is the case I fear there is something wrong with my PC also I 
have the problems only with POV-Ray ...

Any hints appreciated.

Regards, Christoph

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Christoph Gerber wrote:
> - If I have a parse error in an include file the editor doesn't jump to the 
> include file like it used to
>   with POV-Ray 3.5. It just gives the error message and I have to search 
> where the error is myself.

AFAIK WinPOV has a menu item to turn this on or off.

> I know that my report isn't exactly what should be in a bug report but I'm 
> too much afraid of messing up my whole system to try the critical situations 
> on purpose. So I just have the simple question if somebody else experienced 
> similar difficulties with the same system configuration or if I'm the only 
> one. If this is the case I fear there is something wrong with my PC also I 
> have the problems only with POV-Ray ...

What you describe makes it very likely that it is a problem of your 
system and not POV-Ray.

Christoph

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