Thanks, that stopped Pd/GEM from crashing. Now, I am  getting the following error message:

error: [pix_image]: failed to load image

This is reproducible using the [pix_image] help file and attempting to load a .JPG through the bang>openpanel method.

-JN

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Pierre-Olivier Boulant <po.boulant@free.fr> wrote:

Hi,

In the GEM folder if you have gem_imageMAGICK.dll then trash it, move it out or Pd or rename it. It's the one causing you grief.

Cheers
Pierre-Olivier

On 30/10/2011 07:41, Joe Newlin wrote:

With Pd-extended 0.42.5 and GEM 0.93.1. I have pthreadVC.dll in the /bin/ directory.

The following helpfiles, included with GEM, cause pd to crash:

pix_texture-help.pd
pix_tIIR-help.pd
pix_threshold-help.pd
pix_texture-help.pd

There are probably more, but I haven't checked because there is only so much sadness I can handle in one night.

Pd crashes when trying to open the files by:
*starting pd and navigating to the patches from the File menu
*starting pd and trying to open the patches through the help browser
*starting pd, creating a new patch, creating the object - e.g. [pix_texture] - and then right-clicking the object to open the help file
* double-clicking the file in explorer.