Interesting, because checking on that here I get a image rendered, albeit
blank one, when camera, camera + light, camera + light + sky_sphere, or
nothing at all is in the script (except commented out stuff).
Only differences between you're system and mine is Windows version and
amount of memory... unless that 800MHz is a AMD processor.
You should also see a Warning: no objects in scene message.
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text{ttf"arial","bob h",.1,0pigment{rgb 9}translate<-1,-.2,3>}

"Tim Nikias" <Tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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>
> When I try to trace a scene with no objects at all, POV-Ray runs
> through all algorithms and stuff, but just as it tries to open the
> render window, it crashes.
>
> I'm using POV-Ray Beta 8, have Windows 98 with 800 MHZ and 340 MB Ram.
>
> Is there no way POV-Ray could simply check if there is anything in
> scene, and if there isn't, just traces black background?
>
> By the way, sky_sphere doesn't count as object, strangely.
>
>
> camera{location <0,0,-5> look_at <0,0,0>}
> light_source{<10,10,-10> rgb 1}
> sky_sphere{pigment{gradient y color_map{[0 rgb 1][1 rgb 0]}scale 2
> translate -1}}

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