Comment author: administrator

I've just got round to trying out 3.08.3 on windows (not my usual platform
anymore), which contains a fix to #3433 (which I reported a few months ago).

Whilst the fix seems to have improved the screen corruption noted in the
previous bug report, we now get:

Fatal error: exception Graphics.Graphic_failure("create_image: cannot create
bitmap")

and screen corruption, some way into the running of the program (always
at the
same place). There is plenty of free memory.

Yes, but Windows will not let you use it to store bitmaps. The fix we
did was to catch the "cannot allocate" error from CreateCompatibleBitmap
and report it properly. We cannot do anything beyond this. Either
write your program so that it uses fewer bitmaps, or use another
operating system.

Cheers,

• Xavier Leroy

Comment author: administrator

Windows memory limitation, nothing we can do about it.