Crashing...

Hey, I've been making some major progress with AVS, but it is tremendously frustrating when I must keep re-doing everything I've done because winamp keeps crashing. It's only when I perform some sort of action, like arranging a superscope, or changing a rendering mode. This is driving me mad. Has anyone come across this problem?

AVS crashing? Never happens.

Just negate pak's answer and you're at it! 🙂
This is well known and there's no other fix than frequent saving.

Yeah, I was afraid of that. Thanks for the help!

When coding do it all in notepad, then copy paste across to test.

In my experience 99% of crashes seem to happen when code compiles. So I write some code, save my preset, paste it in... then if it crashes I can just load and do the paste again.

Its easy to not follow tho 😛

I've found that AVS seems to crash much less often if I edit while the visualization is "docked" in the AVS editor window. It still happens, of course, but less often... I think...

I've used the Notepad trick, too, and it helps. Another major reason I like that is that I can maximize Notepad and edit my code using the full screen with word-wrapping.

Of course, even with these hints in mind, AVS isn't completely stable, and never will be, so you should also get into the habit of saving frequently.

Maybe your computer performance are low?

It's the same thing happened on my aunt's computer while I playing with codes in AVS editor. My aunt has a very low computer performance.

I experienced most of the crashes while WA was ready with one song and went on to the next track. So I hold on my activities for some time and when the Notifier is gone, I resume.

gonna use the txt-editor now too...

My crashing occurs the same way grandchild's does, when winamp changes to the next song. Never has AVS crashed on me while editing something, codewise or not.

One of the great things about AVS, is that its flaws never seem to be consistent on different machines. Also the way it passes those problems onto APEs too... its all great stuff 🙂

Given enough resouces and time one could build a system that never experiences crashes or problems with AVS...

Omg! The holy grail! 😱

Originally posted by Tuggummi
Given enough resouces and time one could build a system that never experiences crashes or problems with AVS...

Omg! The holy grail! 😱

Yeah, and just like the holy grail... it will stay fiction.

Blasphemy! Kill him!

Originally posted by Tuggummi
Given enough resouces and time one could build a system that never experiences crashes or problems with AVS...

Omg! The holy grail! 😱

What an enticing imagination!
But AVS would definitely lose a bit of it's excitement when you don't have to care of saving and you never have to fear that all your work will get lost all of a sudden! 😁

My crashes only tend to happen when I accidentally click in Tentacles 3D -------> I blame UnconeD for the losses of some great ideas of mine.

I blaim Tentacles 3D for some ideas that were greatly lost.

Blaming "Tentacles 3D" (or "Metaballs 3D") is like blaming an infant for breaking a valuable vase or something. Actually you can't really blame them for that, cause they aren't fully developed (yet).

You're right, that would be disrespectful....

But i do hate babies though! 😠

Well, that's your right. So do i hate the aforementioned ape's.
Just avoid blamimg something for a fault they are not guilty for! 😉

Aah, words of wisdom, my friend, words of wisdom. Okay, i hate everyone who uses babies! 😠

Seems as if i'm having some kind of wise philosophical phase tonight. Guess i should go to sleep before something bad happens... 🤪

When using philosophical against irrational, it is best so, i believe.

Is there any way to get rid if the APE's?

Of course: just delete them from your AVS-folder! 😉

Yeah, but they still show themselves in my render bow, and I occationally hit them.

Sure? After you delete them they shouldn't show up there anymore!? 🤪

Unless they are hard-coded-in of course and not included as external .ape files... don't know, the list is outdated and should be updated...

That's new to me! I always thought that an effect imported through an ape would disappear as soon as the corresponding ape is missing! 😕
Well, you never stop learning! 😉

My crashes are very ofen so i started using notepad it's much more better then rewriting the whole thing all over again. It usaly hapends when i add stuff to the preset or when i save it .... so one day i got relly mad and i started using notepad......... but it would be much more better if the next verison of winamp would fix this.....

Mine doesn't crash all that often. Frankly, it never crashes. Ever. Apart from the obvious tentacles problem.