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From: Richard Speir
Subject: Strange little annoyance....
Date: 21 Jun 2000 00:04:42
Message: <39503FC9.25AEB32D@hotmail.com>
When I started MegaPov 0.5 for windows today, it started giving me
general protection faults before it was even finished loading.  I tried
starting it again, and this time, I get a dialog box giving me errors
concerning the editor....POV seemed to run, but it wouldn't let me open
or edit any files -- these options were greyed out and unavailable under
the menus.  I decided to try running the official version of POV to see
if the same thing happened.....it worked perfectly fine.  Mega runs fine
too, now that I have run the official version.  I haven't changed any
settings recently, that I know of -- it just happened.  Just thought I'd
share this experience with everyone else....seems kinda odd.  Has anyone
else experienced this or know what may have caused it?


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From: Alan Kong
Subject: Re: Strange little annoyance....
Date: 21 Jun 2000 20:51:13
Message: <83m2ls4qd551oech94tuvj5151ul5aescc@4ax.com>
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:08:41 -0400 Richard Speir
<bxm### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>Mega runs fine
>too, now that I have run the official version.  I haven't changed any
>settings recently, that I know of -- it just happened.

  Richard, have you tried a reboot to see if that has any effect? If no
MegaPOV settings were changed by you then I would expect it to work as
it did previously.

  Follow-ups to povray.unofficial.patches

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From: Scott Hill
Subject: Re: Strange little annoyance....
Date: 22 Jun 2000 11:02:13
Message: <39522a75@news.povray.org>
"Richard Speir" <bxm### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:39503FC9.25AEB32D@hotmail.com...
> When I started MegaPov 0.5 for windows today, it started giving me
> general protection faults before it was even finished loading...
>
...Has anyone
> else experienced this or know what may have caused it?

    Had no problems like that yet.
    In fact the only problem I have with MegaPOV is that photons mapping
takes far too long - I wanna scene of thousands of media-filled glass
isosurfaces in a dusty room, I want really cool caustics and I want 'em NOW!
(oh and I'll probably want it animated!) Guess I'll just have to save up for
a supercomputer, or wait for quantum computers to arrive.... :-(

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Software Engineer.
Author of Pandora's Box (coming to a web page soon(ish)).

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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Strange little annoyance....
Date: 22 Jun 2000 16:37:46
Message: <3952792A.5BAB34EA@209software.com>
I had an experience like that with Delphi, after I changed video resolution.

It turned out to be my really cheap video card.  It could handle it at one
res, but not another.

I forgot what kind of card it was, sorry.


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From: Richard Speir
Subject: Re: Strange little annoyance....
Date: 22 Jun 2000 19:46:52
Message: <3952A664.3BEC8EA2@hotmail.com>
Actually, that may be it!  I changed my color depth (24 bit down to 16 bit) to
play Half-Life and then changed it back.  My vid-card (the 2d part at least) is
a real cheap one so that may have been my problem.


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