ZGE Beta crashes when opened (sometimes)

[Archon1024]

Hi there,

I've been using the ZGE Beta 2.0 and it is AWESOME. When it is finished and stable, I think it's going to make FL a great platform for visualis just from the level of integration and audio reaction that can be achieved.

Anyway, I've been working on a "standard" visualizer template for my music... and I must have done something that completely freaked out the video renderer. The plugin loads properly and passes audio out to master, but as soon as I open the plugin window, it crashes FL... 90% of the time. Sometimes it opens normally. I did a controlled test where I did nothing except open FL, load the project, and open ZGE. If I do this 10-15 times, eventually it opens without crashing and I can work normally. I'm a programmer myself, so I did some troubleshooting. It feels like the crash is happening when the video output window is initialized. One or two times it loaded successfully and then crashed later when I changed a setting that caused the window to be re-initialized (such as changing antialiasing or moving from docked to detached mode).

My project does have ZGE inside a Patcher instance, but I don't think this is the problem because my other ZGE presets work fine inside Patcher without crashing. I've loaded this preset inside a blank project and it still crashes FL. I also saved just the ZGE instance on its own and loaded it into a blank project and the crash still happens. Here's the preset that you can load into a fresh project. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. And thanks for all the work on this.

[Archon1024]

Upon further investigation, the issue appears t...

[VilleK (staff)]

Hi Archon1024, Thanks for your kinds words abo...

[VilleK (staff)]

I made an improved fix to the problem today so ...

[Archon1024]

Hi Ville, Thanks very much for the quick respo...