Using the beta 2, I experienced 3 consecutives computer crashes aka Blue
Screen of Death under Windows XP HE. One occured when working with the beta
(I don't remember if it was rendering or not, but I was writing script), the
second occured after 8 hours of rendering and the third occured a few hours
after resuming the previous scene. BSOD are extremely rare on this machine
(the few previous ones could be traced to driver problems and contained
messages that pointed to particular drivers) and these last 3 happened using
the beta in less than 24 hours. The message, that I didn't write down
unfortunately, was something like KERNEL_ERROR (the fact is that BSOD are so
uncommon now that my first move was to try to restart the machine to see if
it was still working, even after the 3rd crash...).
The scene is very large (a couple of hundred Mb of meshes and maps), uses
radiosity and isosurfaces, and takes 800 Mb of RAM. I re-rendered the scene
without problem using 3.5.

POV-Ray 3.6 beta 2
Windows XP Home Edition SP1
Pentium 4 1.7 Gz, 1 Gb RAM.

G.

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