> Hi
> 
> I installed POVRay 3.6 on my WindowsXP-Box. But I am not very happy with 
> it. It hangs from time to time. Sometimes it crashes when rendering 
> (simply no reaction of the GUI), sometimes when editing (access 
> violation) and sometimes even if I switch from another application to 
> POVRay. This only happens with 3.6 The also installed version 3.5 runs 
> very stable.

Sorry. This should be in povray.general

Fup2 p.g


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Matthias Weißer wrote:

> Matthias Weißer schrieb:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I installed POVRay 3.6 on my WindowsXP-Box. But I am not very happy with
>> it. It hangs from time to time. Sometimes it crashes when rendering
>> (simply no reaction of the GUI), sometimes when editing (access
>> violation) and sometimes even if I switch from another application to
>> POVRay. This only happens with 3.6 The also installed version 3.5 runs
>> very stable.
> 
> Sorry. This should be in povray.general
> 
> Fup2 p.g
> 
> 

Hmm

Have your tried the Linux version? I think this is something related
exclusively to Windows POV. Most likely once again some kind of fault that
lies in Windows, or the Windows specific code of POV, not in the POVRay
code itself.

I have been running 3.6 on Linux 24/7 for weeks now with no crashes at all.

I shifted to Linux POV exactly because of what you mention here - random
crashes (on 3.5) for demanding or long-running renders under Windows. All
those problems simply disappeared when I switched to Linux POVRay.

Regards,

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Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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Sometimes I have coredumps even! I also never had that with 3.5.
If this is going to happen more often I'm back to 3.5 :(

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Stefan Viljoen <rylan@ schrieb:
> Matthias Weißer wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed POVRay 3.6 on my WindowsXP-Box. But I am not very happy with
>>> it. It hangs from time to time. Sometimes it crashes when rendering
>>> (simply no reaction of the GUI), sometimes when editing (access
>>> violation) and sometimes even if I switch from another application to
>>> POVRay. This only happens with 3.6 The also installed version 3.5 runs
>>> very stable.
>> 
> 
> Have your tried the Linux version? I think this is something related
> exclusively to Windows POV. Most likely once again some kind of fault that
> lies in Windows, or the Windows specific code of POV, not in the POVRay
> code itself.

I use the linux version when I do long renderings but still 3.5 because 
I would like to compile 3.6 myself for AMD64.

> I shifted to Linux POV exactly because of what you mention here - random
> crashes (on 3.5) for demanding or long-running renders under Windows. All
> those problems simply disappeared when I switched to Linux POVRay.

I think it has something to do with the Windows-GUI. But I don't know what.

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Matthias Weißer
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