14.106 Strange IDE behaviours

[erico]

Main window is not displaying and so aren´t many button images, sometimes it flicks a bit.
I don´t know where is that coming from, usually rebooting the machine fixes it for a while.

I have done a full reinstall + web update and get the same thing.
Anyone seeing it too?

[Kitty Hello]

Oh no. Try to delete the registry key. Or choose another font...

[erico]

I tried another font, but it didn´t work, same behavior.
What registry key?
I got into HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/dream_design/GLBasic

Do I delete the whole GLBasic entry? Or is there an specific one?

Strange, My other GLBasic versions are all working fine.

edit: Somehow I thing it may be related to Microsoft C++ redistribution as once in a while it pops an error on screen, I will reboot and try to catch it when it happens.

[MrTAToad]

Have you tried updating your graphics drivers ?

[erico]

Could it really be the problem? All other GLB versions installed are working fine, the thing is happening only on the couple latest updates of v14.
I sure can give that a shot, but doing gfx card updates here, once did bug production software so I dislike doing so.

I´m really thinking it has something to so with those thousands of c++ microsoft distributions.
Rebooting usually fixes it for a little while, but if left running, some error with that pops up at some point and it bugs after that.

I was getting that error for a while now, even on pre 14 versions, but it never bugged the ide.
Since I just rebooted (which I hardly ever do) it is working, I will see if I can catch the error msg.

I´m also going to format everything and re install my system early jan 2016, so messing about right now is not a problem.
I will try that gfx drive too.

[mentalthink]

Erico I have the version running under Wine and don't have anything extrange, and I have running under Win7 "real" in another machine and works fine...

Perhaps something you installed recently, or perhaps you need make a fresh Windows installation, I do normally each year.

[erico]

Yep, my system is kind of old now and it is going to be really hard to actually know what is happening as I can´t seem to recreate the problem.
I just did some system win update and going to do the GFX card too just in case, but a full re-install is going to have to happen early january, where I hope to get that VM going for osx and linux.

Cheers!

[erico]

Just to let everyone know, I have just done a bunch of win 7 updates+the microsoft spy sh*t+getting rid of the upgrade to 10 tray...reboot and so far all seems fine
Oh well, sucks. But all is fine on latest M$ win7 updates. No nvidia update though.

[erico]

Many many hours later, it seems the win 7 updates fixed whatever was happening with the IDE.
just to test, I left a GLB game running overnite and today I found it closed with this msg displayed.

I will keep doing some tests just in case.

[MrTAToad]

I have always thought that there was a memory allocation/corruption problem with Windows 7 that would corrupt the icon memory area.  Its possible that Windows 8 and 10 also have it too (there have been times when programs have affected other programs with memory available, corrupt graphics etc).

[erico]

Yep, maybe it has some relationship.

I just left it running again for the past 3 hours and got the same error, but this time it didn´t close the game at all, so it is still running.
It could be a problem with my old win 7 system installation , maybe someone could check it out?

Open GLB, load some code, compile/run, and leave it running. That window pops out about 2 or 3 hours after.

[MrTAToad]

Its not the continual memory increase problem back again is it ?

What code do you use to test ?

[erico]

My avocado game (yes I´m still finishing it), and it auto pauses when not in focus, it is still running since morning and I got about 3 of that last window.
Memory seems not to be increasing at all, but I´d guess I would need a better log then resource monitor to be sure.
I will keep an eye on that memory stuff.

[erico]

Just to let us know, memory use is stable so far, no problems on this front it seems.

[MrTAToad]

That's good!

GWXUX is part of Windows 10 update programming - a fair few people have had that crashing.  It may indicate a corrupt file.