Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:

> >   I have tried repair as well as re-installing, to no avail.
> >   Help!
> >   Please send answer to me at rob### [at] localnetcom
> >
> >
> Did the nanimation used to work, but stopped working?
>
> Do you get any error message?
>
> When the attampted animation fails, can you continue to work, or does
> POV-Ray freeze?
>
> About 2 and 3 years ago, I got a freeze problem with animations that
> went away by itself after some time. Also, in my case as in yours,
> reinstalling, or uninstalling, purging the registry from anything POV
> related then reinstalling in another folder did NOT solve my problem.
> In both of my cases, the problem corrected itself after about 2 or 3 months.
>
>
> Alain

  Please see my "detailed" answer to Jim Holsenback for further info.
  Is there any way to "nudge" POV Ray to "correct itself"?

  Shoot, i have an older version (3.1g) which i installed in a different OS
(Win98SE) and it !failed! the same way...and that version is supposed to work in
Win3.11 (which i also have and use on rare occasion).
  Seems to me that there is something fundamentally wrong that has not been
fixed since then (?10-20 years ago?) and has not been addressed.
  A weird wrong perhaps, else there would be a lot of clamor "why do you have an
animation feature that refuses to work?".
  In this case, it seems clear that the OS per se is not the problem (unless it
is realllly subtle) and certainly the CPU brand.

  How many others have seen this problem?
  Is it worthy of a bug report, and how can one document it to be reproduceable?
  Shoot, if it could be documented that finely, then a viable installation
method could be posted somewhere - even programmed as a part of the installation
package.

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