Continuing frustration with crashes
 

I use RW on 2 very capable desktop systems, an r7 1700, 16 GB RAM, a 1TB SSD and my home system is an R5 1600, 16 GB RAM, 240 GB SSD, !TB HDD. Both systems crash to the desktop frequently when ever I try to switch tabs while one of those tabs is a smart image that is 10 MB or larger.

I am fully aware that the problem is the 32 bit .NET that RW runs under. I am also aware that the last time this was discussed the problem was DevExpress controls used in RW did not come in a 64 bit flavor. Surely that situation has changed by now? Is there any chance that a migration to 64 bit will happen after the CM goes live?

One can only hope that moving to a 64bit architecture is somewhere in RW's future...

+1 to this.

Big +1 here

+1 - gotta move with the times :-)

+1

That would be great!

+1
If code is not good, even 128bit won't save it, but lets go 64bit for now :)

A 10MB image doesn't really help to know the actual size of the image. Is it above approx. 3000x3000 pixels?

pixel count is irrelevant. A 10 MB PNG image could be significantly different scale than a gif or jpg or the same size.

Pixel size is exactly relevant. Whilst RW stores a PNG or GIF or JPG inside the database in that compressed format, as soon as you display it in a tab then it get stored in memory as a standard uncompressed multi-coloured picture. This uncompressed picture will always take up the same amount of memory for the same resolution image - so all 3000x3000 images will take up the same memory when displayed in a tab.

As you know, since you've been on the forums for a while, this is a known limitation which has various work-arounds.

I'm not interested in rehashing workarounds. I'm solely interested in finding out if the underlying problem is getting fixed in the near future.