Crashing in most simulations

[natmartin]

This program looks amazing, and I've been able to play with it a little bit, but pretty much every simulation crashes within a minute or so of running. I can reload the simulation, it works again for a moment, then crashes again.

This is loaded on windows XP SP3, running under bootcamp on a MacBook Pro.

Anything I can do to troubleshoot?

[Dan Dixon]

Sorry you're having trouble.

Can you send me a crash report or two and mention in the comments that you're "natmartin" from the forums?

That should give me a good idea what the problem is.

(This is assuming that you presented with the option to send in a crash report.)

[natmartin]

Yeah, it gave me the option each time. I sent a whole bunch last night.

I'll try again tonight, and add that to the comments. Thanks!

[natmartin]

I sent a bunch of crash reports a few minutes ago. Hope it helps!

[Dan Dixon]

That's really strange, but likely quite solvable.

All four of your crashes looked like this:
26923 | 2009-05-21 00:17:13.296 * Error: Global Crash | Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow. | at 038AA.198AA(588AA HSV, Single Alpha)

It appears to be a problem with the color conversion code. What's strange is that it happens to you all the time, but I've never seen this error from anyone else. (actually that's not true - A few others have reported it)

Is there something that you're doing that causes this (like clicking a specific button) or does it seem to be random?

[natmartin]

It mostly seems random. Probably the one thing that will make it happen the most is clicking in the window to move the camera around.

But a few times it crashes when I have the menu up, and press a button but not the same button each time. And a few times it crashes when I'm just watching the simulation without interacting with it at all.

Any additional information you need?