Re: [PD] dealing with crashes under WinXp

On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:06 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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On 2012-03-06 09:46, David Schaffer wrote:

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Hi,

 I'm running a sound installation unsing pd under windows XP SP3  home. The patch is heavy and the computer is an old centrino laptop (the cpu runs at 95 percent all the time). I was planning to let the computer run non-stop  for three weeks to keep maintenance as low as possible since there's no qualified technician at the venue, but my first attempt at a long term run resulted in a pd crash. So here's my question: is there a way to force pd to restart automatically after a crash, or is there a way to make the computer restart after a crash (and have my pd patch start automatically at boot-up). Thanks in advance.

hmm, all those questions are not very Pd related. you might want to try some XP and/or hardware forum.

last time i did an installation with w32, i seem to remember that i used a small "reboot" program that rebooted the machine every so often. making Pd start automatically shouldn't be a big deal ("autostart"?)

fgamdr IOhannes

I've generally avoided Windows in installations, but if you just set up the machine so that it automatically starts the patch on reboot, then you can tell the people at the venue to reboot it whenever there is a problem.

.hc

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