"Leon" wrote in message
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It was simply a suggestion of a direction to look into rather than blame
the least likely variable. CAD programs and even some simple card game
programs recommend minimal requirements for acceptable performance. The
video card for one should be a better than average consideration.

Since it matters to the discussion, it's an Nvidia 8800 GTS with up to date
drivers. The box is a quad 2.8 GHz, 2 GB, and 2.4 TB (that's TeraBytes) of
local storage. Very few boxes are bigger or faster. Without getting into
words like "denial", in response to "least likely", I'll just point out that
SU is tiny and trivial compared to other applications that run without
difficulty for as much as 16 hours a day, each day. I know quite a bit about
software and failures. It's an absolute certainty that the fault lies in SU
alone.

Anyway... I really didn't expect discussion. I was just ****ed enough to
share my momentary frustration with you (and a few others here) publicly.

PS: I tried it again just now, and had no problems. The best I can figure is
the crash is related to the Space Navigator puck, whether directly in its
interface modules to SU, or in SU as a result of the more "vigorous"
panning, zooming, and rotation. It didn't crash using only the mouse to
scroll and zoom.