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Bug 1043

Summary: SDL_SetVideoMode() randomly crashes with exit code 3
Product: SDL Reporter: thebluedragont
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: critical    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.14   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows 7   

Description thebluedragont 2010-08-13 06:05:52 UTC 
As the title says, SDL_SetVideoMode() keeps randomly crashing. It works and works and then at some point it decides it doesn't want to work anymore and I need to reboot.

At first I thought I thought it's a bug, then I googled it and decided it's probably me giving it incorrect values.
I played with the BPP and with OpengGL attributes (SDL_GL_SetAttribute()) and it seemed to work again.
Now it started crashing again without me changing anything, and after a reboot it works without any problem.

What's the deal with this?

In my current code I disabled any GL attribute settings (don't know what's their defaults) and I just call

SDL_SetVideoMode(800, 600, 24, SDL_OPENGL);

Like I said, tried with other BPPs already and it doesn't seem to matter.
Comment 1 thebluedragont 2010-08-13 15:11:30 UTC 
I forgot to mention that this never happens to me in Ubuntu 10.04, same code same library version same everything.
Comment 2 thebluedragont 2010-09-24 07:10:15 UTC 
I have found the problem.
Apparently the game (and perhaps others?) "IJJI Gunz" (google it if you care) makes SDL crash at  SDL_SetVideoMode().
I have no idea why.