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ollydbg:
I'm using C::B under Windows for more than 2 year. No bluescreen happened.
I guess your system or some hardware problem, it is strange that you friend can reproduce your problem....

oBFusCATed:
demone:
C::B is a userspace probgram, there are no drivers in it.
The compiler you use is the same. No drivers in it.
Both programs use the OS APIs to communicate with the hardware.
So both programs can cause BSOD on their own, but drivers could.

The process of compiling is extremely heavy on the hardware, because it stresses all subsystems: CPU, disk subsystem.
I've seen my system crash under heavy compilation and later it turned out that my system is not stable. The OS is not so important.

How many threads are you using for your compilation? Try with only 1 if you use more.
Have you tried with to see if your hdd is OK, using a surface test program?

Have you tried IBT on your friends laptop? I guess it overheat as some of the laptops are not meant for heavy load.

demone:

--- Quote from: demone on October 22, 2011, 11:38:10 am ---...
I was thinking that the problem was just the MultyThread compiling (I was using 4 threads since I have a quad core).

So I disabled it.
...

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as previously sad i'm using just 1 thread for compiling. (after found that multiple threads are not very stable)

I tried the surface test and is ok..

Has anyone tried at least to abort a very long compile task on Vista? (10 or more minutes of compiling for a single target).
I tried to do the same on my old winXP and I have no troubles. maybe it is an issue of Vista?

@ollydbg: i'm trying to follow oBFusCATed instructions for find what is wrong, and my friend plays rage at high details on his laptop so he is probably have heating problems with newest GTX inside). Have you vista too?

ollydbg:

--- Quote from: demone on October 26, 2011, 08:56:08 am ---@ollydbg: i'm trying to follow oBFusCATed instructions for find what is wrong, and my friend plays rage at high details on his laptop so he is probably have heating problems with newest GTX inside). Have you vista too?

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I'm on WinXP.
I have used Vista before. I found that Vista's harddisk IO speed is too slow. When build a large project, it takes one times longer than build on XP.

reckless:
Vista can be a bit quirky in places but is generally very stable. If you know how to tweak services you can boost its performance quite a deal by turning of indexing (slower searches but way faster disk io) search tweaks for vista.
As for BSOD's its newer easy to find out what causes it but compilers dont :) they may stress the system though so it triggers a fault but the cause is allmost 100% certain to be somewhere else. As an example i can tell you i been fighting for years with my gfx card causing lockups and black screen o deaths, i replaced every piece of hardware including the gfx card and it didnt work. Turned out to be a bad monitor so even when something seems obvious (likely a broken gfx card) it might not be that. The only advise i can give is if you dont have a massive amount of hardware to replace from, start with something minimal (mainboard cpu + ram and gfx card) try first with one stick of ram and if stable plug in more sticks. Continue with whatever piece of hardware you have (one at a time) untill it becomes unstable, and you most likely found the cullprit.

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