The program intermittently crashes upon start-up, or more often while loading a script, esp. when the engine thread is not paused at the time of command-line parsing.
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The program intermittently crashes upon start-up, or more often while loading a script, esp. when the engine thread is not paused at the time of command-line parsing.
I believe that this intermittent crash and the Windows 8 bug was one and the same. Both are now fixed.