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infuzion ·
original topic: SM2.02 crash reporter locks up WinXP then BSOD When working on a large (25Mb) OSM, SM's crash reporter will lock up on random crashes. When I try to CTRL-ALT-DEL to stop SM, it will go directly to a BSOD. Files about to be sent. I have no idea why SM crashes, aside from the usual guess of just copy/pasting/leaving SM open too long.
Malc, please stop SM from crashing, & help it handle crash reports from large OSMs.
rl ·
BSOD looks suspiciously like a driver issue. ASIO or DirectSound?
trogluddite ·
I remember ages back having a big .osm that crashed a lot. It had a lot of mem's, code arrays etc. I found that it was gobbling up all my memory - every time the code was re-compiled (cut/pastes, that kind of thing), it just ate another big chunk of memory, presumably instead of just re-using the same bits - until there was no more memory..... then BSOD.
Haven't had it happen for a while - but I don't remember the specific bug ever being mentioned as fixed - maybe it's just that I haven't tinkered with the memory hungry bits of an .osm for a long time. I could see the effect quite clearly on the Task Manager memory readouts - so it might be worth having a look to see if you have a memory muncher on your hands.
BTW. This was also on a WinXP machine (1Gb RAM)
infuzion ·
Could be Drivers, though I lean more towards trogluddite's idea; SM's editor does seem to have memory issues always bugging it, though it does get better.
infuzion ·
Hmm, getting a crash every few hours of use... this time I only did about 5 minutes of cut & pasting, & editing a few lines in 2 ASM blocks, & SM crashed to desktop. At least it didn't crash to BSOD this time. I hope these crashes can be fixed soon; crash reporting is costing me money now.
sunsynth ·
My v2.02 crashed because of a bad ASIO kernel driver before...
now i have a RGY project only (Midi I/O w/o blue or poly stream) with over 520000 mods and i get strange dashed red Loop lines errors where i really don't expected them...
maybe this is because of the use of a special Midi Network driver -> dunno
trogluddite ·
My ASIO driver will also crash SM - always has for all the old versions too. But it's only when the .osm's are very SMALL, and I'm making an effect with a chain of blue streams between ASIO in and ASIO out. Even more odd - if I connect a mono readout to my ASIO in, then delete it again - I can then always connect up my in->out chain without a problem! Otherwise SM202 has been very stable for me so far.
infuzion ·
My last crashe were with DS Out, though I did suspect ASIO before.
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