[ODE] machine locking up hard when running tests

Ruud van Gaal ruud at marketgraph.nl
Fri Dec 27 17:10:02 2002


> From: Anselm Hook <anselm@hook.org>
> To: Tom Maciukenas <tommaciukenas@hotmail.com>
>
> Try run multiple instance of drawstuff apps; even without moving or
> resizing them.  You may find second or third instances have corrupted
> textures or may crash the computer.
>
> Anyway, there is likely some small buffer overflow type bug with the
> textures, it just takes somebody to take the time to look at it and fix
> it.

Crashing computers mean crashing drivers. A simple drawstuff app cannot 
be responsible for a graphics driver failure, esp. corrupting textures. 
You can't do that in OpenGL; only the driver can.

Ruud