Skinstudio crashes after 10 minutes, everytime.

By Night Train Posted December 20, 2005 06:06:40

NOTE:::

eople running warez version and having problems, please go the heck away. Don't spoil this thread! Find your own. I have waitied to post this problem because of all you buttheads making the developers lives miserable because you are a dumbass.

The latest 2 builds of Skinstudio crash after 7 -10 applies of the skin I am working on (or any skin).

As already reported, Skinstudio is very slow to open. If I forget to wait about 30 seconds and click on the skin I want to edit, it freezes and can only be closed with task Manager. If I wait about 30 seconds for all the skins to load in SKS then it will start fine.

After 6-10 applies of the skin I am working on, Skinstudio crashes. Sometimes I get a out of memory warning but most of the time it just stops painting properly and I have to close Skinstudio. Restarting Skinstudio fixes it. Sometimes I will go to edit an image and Photoshop or Paint Shop pro will stop painting properly. if I close Skinstudio everything goes back to normal. Must be a leak of sorts. It started with the last build (4.99 something) and continued into the latest build.
Any work around for this? I can't get a screenshot becuase Something related to Skinstudio prevents me. I can take screenshots when things are working fine but when the problems start, No screenies.

Also, Windowblinds will randomly switch to classic scrollbars, progress bars and some other things. It will randomly happen while I work on a skin. If I apply Xp default skin, unload windowblinds, restart windowblinds, it normally fixes the problem and my scrollbars return. When they go bad, they cannot be seen in the preview window of Windowblinds config. It is all random. Sometimes I can apply the Aura skin and the scrollbars will work fine for that skin, but not others I have made. This is not a sure thing though. Sometimes the Aura scrollbars switch to classic as well.
It might be tied into Skinstudio but I am not sure because it has happened at times when I am not using Skinstudio. Yesterday while browsing the forums, my PC sort of stalled and boom I lost the scrollbars, progress bars and some window frames convert to classic. In that case only a reboot returned everything to normal.

I recently had a major malfunction resulting in a reformat so everything is freshly installed. The problems I mentioned all happened prior to the reformat as well.
I did notice (for the record) that windowblinds is applying skins 100 times faster since the reformat and reinstall of windowblinds.

In the past 2 months or so I have uninstalled and reinstalled windowblinds and or Skinstudio 5 -10 times and the result is the same everytime.

Any assistant is greatly appreciated. It is starting to get annoying. If I spend 15 minutes working on a skin, I will spend 10 minutes getting my scrollbars back or restarting Skinstudio and I could use that time. LOL

Have a great Holiday guys and gals. Thanks for all the hard work throughout the year.

XP sp2...Freshly installed. All windows updates installed. I am currently only running Windowblinds, Skinstudio, and Icon packager. Currently running NO anti virus software. I uninstalled it to test a conflict with Natural Desktop and haven't reinstalled yet. Natural Desktop wouldn't work with Macafee (Greenreaper, has this been fixed yet?).

Not sure what else to add but ...you say, I do.

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have 2 monitors.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
(Plug and Play Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Wblind.dll 2005/12/07 20:01:12
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/07 19:09:54
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

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Quick feedback..

Inital upgrade to both WB (5.00(b).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.

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.

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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.

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