RE: [GD-Windows] Win98 lockup problem

[Daniel V. <vo...@ep...>]

> I remember we use to have this sort of behavior if you exited the
> application without cleaning up D3D / DDRAW correctly - ie: 

Sorry, forgot to follow up and post that I tracked it down to DirectSound
not being correctly torn down in all cases.

> the main window is destroyed etc... Yes Win9x was very sensitive to
> these things. We even had our exception handler clean up DX 
> so that when the application crashed with an error, the system 
> remained stable(ish!). 

That's what we do as well.

> Try the debug runtime and see if you have leaks, try 

The DX9 SDK installer consistently rebooted the Win98 machine :)


Thanks everyone for the pointers of DirectX being the culprit which means
killhelp.exe doesn't work in combination with DX9.0b.

Thanks,

-- Daniel, Epic Games Inc.