Re: [pygame] pygame crashing after a few seconds

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Though I am unfamiliar with the book I can still make on suggestion. Try 
setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to windib before 
running any examples. From the dos prompt:

set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib

Lenard


Emmanuel Kanter wrote:
> Guys, just joined the list, so, first of all, sorry about my english 
> (I'm a brazilian user).
>
> I'm following the examples in the Beggining Game Programming with 
> Python and Pygame book, but I'm having some problems... whenever the 
> program uses graphic mode, for example, the program that writes random 
> pixels of random colors on the screen (with locking/unlocking), and 
> runs for a while (and by that I mean something like 20-30 seconds), my 
> PC reboots. I'm writing with python 2.5 and pygame 1.8.1, using Idle 
> to write but running on dos prompt, using windows XP. Since it just 
> crashes out of the blue, I don't know what could it be...