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yrag
Reply #42 Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:29 PM
I'm sure we're on the right track with this....try something; when you're using SKS (and only SKS) disable Hardware Acceleration in Display Properties. Let's see what that does. On another note...you do have the onboard graphics disabled, correct?
Reply #42 Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:29 PM
| BTW..SKS crashed twice in the first half hour but has held for about 45 minutes now. |
I'm sure we're on the right track with this....try something; when you're using SKS (and only SKS) disable Hardware Acceleration in Display Properties. Let's see what that does. On another note...you do have the onboard graphics disabled, correct?
NightTrainthedark
Reply #43 Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:44 PM
I am pretty sure I do. How would I check to be certain?
Why your at it...how does one go about turning off Hardware acceleration? I know I have seen it, just can't find it now.
thanks again.
Reply #43 Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:44 PM
| On another note...you do have the onboard graphics disabled, correct? |
I am pretty sure I do. How would I check to be certain?
Why your at it...how does one go about turning off Hardware acceleration? I know I have seen it, just can't find it now.
thanks again.
yrag
Reply #44 Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:02 PM
Reply #44 Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:02 PM
Boot into bios and look for Onboard entries (Sound, Graphic, Sata, etc); Disable Onboard Graphics. If it doesn't show in Device Manager, then chances are it's already disabled.
Control Panel/ Display/ Settings/ Advanced/ Troubleshoot/ slider to left, apply
Control Panel/ Display/ Settings/ Advanced/ Troubleshoot/ slider to left, apply
NightTrainthedark
Reply #45 Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:10 PM
Reply #45 Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:10 PM
Thanks Gary. I will surely let you know how things go. Onboard graphics are off.
Onboard graphics are off.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #46 Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:36 PM
Reply #46 Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:36 PM
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...
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...
NightTrainthedark
Reply #47 Monday, January 2, 2006 8:42 AM
Reply #47 Monday, January 2, 2006 8:42 AM
While just closing down Skinstudio I got the following messages. This has happened a couple of times.
Access violation at address 004040B2 in module SknStdio.exe. Read of address 3D746E75
I click it off and The following message comes up
Control " has no parent window.
I click that off and I got Access violation at address 00488A04 in module SknStdio.exe. read of address 00000180
Then it closes.
Hope it tells you something.
Access violation at address 004040B2 in module SknStdio.exe. Read of address 3D746E75
I click it off and The following message comes up
Control " has no parent window.
I click that off and I got Access violation at address 00488A04 in module SknStdio.exe. read of address 00000180
Then it closes.
Hope it tells you something.
SkinStudio
Reply #48 Friday, January 6, 2006 11:03 PM
Reply #48 Friday, January 6, 2006 11:03 PM
I believe the problems has been taken care of. There should be a new version of SkinStudio on SDC tomorrow. Please mail me at: adam AT stardock DOT com if you still have the problems with the new version.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #51 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:13 AM
Reply #51 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:13 AM
Quick feedback..
Inital upgrade to both WB (5.00(
.010) and SKS (5.00.048)went absolutley haywire. Basically Explorer kept freezing , stalling, and painting like a 2 year old. 
After uninstalling and reinstalling both progs, all seems to be working just fine. It is a little early for sure but I will certainly report any issues.
Thanks guys for all you do.
Inital upgrade to both WB (5.00(
.010) and SKS (5.00.048)went absolutley haywire. Basically Explorer kept freezing , stalling, and painting like a 2 year old. 
After uninstalling and reinstalling both progs, all seems to be working just fine. It is a little early for sure but I will certainly report any issues.
Thanks guys for all you do.
scorpio-logic
Reply #52 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:26 PM
Reply #52 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:26 PM
NT, I have both upgrades, same builds, with no problems. I haven't fiddling with SKS since last night's upload of ~ColdRolled, but intend on getting back to it here in a jiffy. If I do not report, then I don't have trouble.
My only problems before the 5.00.048 was applying skins more than 6 times. Then everything slowed, some things didn't skin. This was resolved by saving (of course) the where I was at, then restarting.
My only problems before the 5.00.048 was applying skins more than 6 times. Then everything slowed, some things didn't skin. This was resolved by saving (of course) the where I was at, then restarting.
Cavan1
Reply #53 Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:35 AM
Reply #53 Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:35 AM
Hey NT, you had my hand shaking when going to click update now for WB and SKS but was smooth sailing for me. Maybe that bug was in your update only. 
Have not had SKS open long enough yet to see if crashes are fixed but it sure is nice to click edit in WB config and have it open in SKS quickly again.
You better pump out a couple dozen or so skins to fully test update.
Have not had SKS open long enough yet to see if crashes are fixed but it sure is nice to click edit in WB config and have it open in SKS quickly again.
You better pump out a couple dozen or so skins to fully test update.
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Reply #41 Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:24 PM
Buy two of them........