Re: [pygame] I'm getting BSOD while using PyGame.

["Jake b" <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 12, 2007 5:25 PM, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 12:07 PM, Jake b <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I can get an equivalent c++ program to blit tiles using libSDL to work
> > fine on both computers. That's why I'm wondering could it have
> > anything to do with a certain version of PyGame + Python?
> >
> What version of libSDL? is it 1.2.10 or above or 1.2.9 or below? cause
> with 1.2.10 and above they changed the default video backend - which
> is how pygame could be doing completely different things that the
> libsdl c++ app

It says it's using libSDL v1.2.7 for PyGame

>
> > I have Python: 2.5.1, and PyGame: pygame-1.7.1release.win32-py2.5.exe
> >
> That installer should be using SDL 1.2.7 which means it would be going
> through your directx driver. You could try running the game with the
> windib backend, which means it would use different drivers for a lot
> of the work. To do that, put this as like the first 2 lines of the
> script you run:
>
> import os
> os.environ["SDL_VIDEODRIVER"] = "windib"
>
> If the script doesn't hang and BSOD when run that way, it would seem
> the problem would be caused by directx drivers misbehaving with what
> pygame would be telling them to do.
>

Switching the driver to 'windib' didn't fix it. The problem seems to
be map.render() ( I just posted the full code in my previous post )

-- 
Jake