I am posting this after running some tests trying to find out if I have a vid card issue or not.
yrag recommended I send this to Adam to see if anything jumps out. I will email this as well.
Basically, I ran Skinstudio under different circumstances and in the end, allowing Skinstudio to be skinned is a big no-no. However I did run into problems before with skinstudio excluded. During this run of testing, I didn't experience any problems.
This is what I have come up with...I hope it makes sense. I was up late and things get fuzzy ...late.
Running Skinstudio (1 skin) with no windowblinds running (XP default),
skinstudio and paint shop pro excluded from being skinned.
No issues at all. Worked for over an hour solid.
SKS memory usage- 1524 k
handles-7640
Physical memory available- 2237480 k
total Physical memory- 523760 k
Running Skinstudio (1 skin), running windowblinds (my own skin) ,
SKS and PSP excluded from being skinned.
Worked fine for over an hour (my shift key just went down CRAP! pardon the lack of caps)
SKS memory usage- ??? k
handles-7146
Physical memory available- 240000 k
total Physical memory- 523760 k
Now my notes get confusing. (Shift key is back)
Basically everything worked fine until I allowed SKS to be skinned. In about 4 hours I had no program crashes.
Until..
SKS running (1 skin), windowblinds running (my skin) , sks skinned, PSP skinned.
At start up
Handles- 7321
Available physical memory- 145800 k
Total memory- 523760 k
SKS memory usage- 59000 k climbing to 75000 k rapidly.
After approx 45 minutes..
Program crash.
Handles- 7475
Available memory- 43092 k
Total memory- 523670k
SKS Memory usage- 85000 k
Close skinstudio... Available memory instantly jumps to 200000k
Restart SKS..
10 minutes before program crashes
Available physical memory- 71400k
SKS memory usage -88000k
Cache jumps to- 258000k
Close SKS and available jumps to 268000 k...cache jumps to 112000k
Restart...10 minutes crash again.
Available memory- 65000k
Program keeps crashing every 10 minutes or so..
Sleeeeppppp.....
.....wake
For about an hour this morning everything worked fine. SkS being skinned and all.
Then the program crashed. After 2 or 3 program restarts and crashes *BOOM*..
there go my scrollbars, taskbar, etc. Just like in the screnshot shown at WC.
This is the first time it has happened since I rolled back to the 77.77 drivers.
I have been using SKS alot too. I really thought we had that problem nailed down.
Getting things back to normal wasn't so easy this time.
The weird thing was I was I could see the preview windows with scroll bars in
windowblinds configuration for my skins but not the aura skin. Normally it is the other way around.
I can see the Aura scrollbars but not mine. After some changing to XP default and reloading my skin,
and back and forth a couple of times everything went back to normal. My quick launch icons,
and system tray kept loading with large icons. This was a first. Everything is normal now.
I am going to uninstall and reinstall all the software that could be related and do some more of something. LOL
to be conitinued...
