thanks hans, however not a lot of infomation came out of it.

i mostly tried the help patches from the .reference
some do not give a problem: abs, acoustics, acoustics~,adc~, all_about,..
others: about.pd, abs~, all_about_arrays
make Pd close without any message.

on the other hand acoustics~-help generates the message:
< tclpd loader searching for pddp/dsp in path...
 nothing found. >
idem for adc~-help,
but no crash.

any more suggestions where/how to look?

ciao,rolf

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

Nice! I like old machines, that is exactly the same CPU as the PdLab build servers :).  They have less RAM tho ;).  For debugging this, trying running pd in the cmd.exe shell.  I would download the .zip package and unzip it somewhere.  Then go to Start -> Run -> cmd.exe, and do:

cd path/pd/Pd-extended 0.43.1-extended/pd/bin
pd.com -stderr

Then you should see all of the stuff that normally going to the Pd window going to the cmd.exe window.

.hc

On Dec 15, 2011, at 9:59 AM, rolf meesters wrote:

> hi,
>
> i have a bunch of PIII, 733Mhz, 512Mb.
> Pd-0.42.5 runs smoothly on XP-pro.
> today i tried the latest nightly-build of P-0.43:
> it's not possible to open any patch,
> not even regular help-patches.
> Pd closes immediately; no warnings.
>
> any suggestions on how to debug this?
>
> rolf
>
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