Random crashes after upgrade to Windows 10 AND latest 1.5

CaptKirk

I made a mistake. I updated both the OS from Win7 to Win10 and the Repetier from 1.0.5 (I think) to 1.5.4.

Before it was nice and stable. Now I get crashes ("Repetier-host has stopped responding") at various times. Its crashing viewing the model, it randomly crashes positioning things, it randomly crashes during prints (with no one touching anything) and I do not see any pattern to the crashes.

- Should it work with Win10?

- Is there any special settings I should use (for example I DO have it running in Admin Mode- could that be an issue)?? Should I be setting a compatibility mode for running it??

- I am using a Win 8.1 Graphics Driver (Intel HD 3000) as there is not a true Win 10 driver planned for my 2nd Gen Core I5.)- should that work?

- Anything else I might be doing wrong? I do want to keep the Win 10 as Win 7 is basically EOL).

Thanks!! Kirk

CaptKirk

Any one else using Win10 yet??

Jumpy07

Yep... having same issues.. inconsistent problems.. my bed heater changes to 1c.. and it seems to pause for a 1min before starting.. other weird issues..

Rtty177

Having same problem repetier will print 2 or 3 layers then crash and will not restart.

DaveS

I had similar problems after upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Repetier Host kept crashing towards the end of the slicing stage unless I was printing a very simple object.

I changed from using Slic3r to Cura and it seems to have fixed the problem. Therefore I think that the bug is in Slic3r and not in Repetier Host.

fred1986

same issue here repetier host crashes the moment it loads object analyzer after upgrade to win 10

Repetier

I have checked the host on my Windows 10 machine and it worked as it should be. There is no special Windows 10 or 7 code - all we use exists since Windows XP. So I have to conclude that the problems come from different sources like different drivers (I have ATI driver here) or serial driver (my printer used buildin windows serial driver, not tested id FTDI makes problems). And last there were always users with problems due to some unknown reasons like corrupted files or what else can make a difference. One thing everyone with problems should do is running as admin

sfc /scannow

to see if basic windows files are all correct and not corrupted. Also updating graphic driver has already helped some users.

rterra

in my machine, the repetier host freezes when loading this stl:

http://www.makershop.co/shop/fantasygraph/item/bust--look-me-

.NET 4.0 64bit application bug @ .NET 4.6 environment ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/microsoft_acknowledges_net_framework_46_critical_bug_issues_workaround/

Repetier

Interesting link. Looks like they have patched it so next release will be compiled with the patched version.

I also checked the stl file and it is a ridicle what is going on. The problem also appears on windows 8 so it is not windows 10 related. It does not happen always, so it is a gamble. If it works it loads within seconds otherwise it does not crash but takes 15-20 minutes where something is blocking. Not even the debugger is able to pause the app then. It also takes 15-20 minutes to make pause work, so pause is after the problem. I hope I get an idea what can take so long and also prevents pause in debugger which otherwise always works instantly.

ijourneaux

I upgraded from Win7 to WIn10 and am experiensing the similar issue to what is reported here. THe program crashes hard and takes down the computer right as Repetier changes from the slicer to the preview. Even though the computer is totally unresponsive, the hard drive is churning away.

ijourneaux

I was reading another thread indicating using Cura to slice worked. That is the case for me. I would still like to use Slic3r though

Repetier

At least with big files i found that the garbage collector blocks the host for longer then I like until it starts working normally again. I'm now testing on how to make new "new" garbage collector introduced in .NET 4.5 faster. So if it looks if the program has crashed please give it 10 minutes to see if it continus afterwards. Then I know it is the same problem.

ijourneaux

I have just been using the small Marvin model from 3DHub. It causes Windows to crash hard right after Repetier switches to the Preview window. This doesn't seem to impact MatterControl or Cura. I will let it run for a while now (I am logged in remotely to my printer) but if it is doing something, it didn't leave enough CPU cycles to keep the remote connection up.

ijourneaux

Ok. Eventually the computer came back on-line (about 1hr later) but Repetier was hung (unresponsive). I was unable to kill Repetier with task manager.

ijourneaux

Not sure if this helps but here is the error from the event log.

Faulting application name: RepetierHost.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x55b091c5

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.10240.16384, time stamp: 0x559f38c3

Exception code: 0x80000003

Repetier

@ijourneaux That module is part of windows. If it appears in a box with details the details might help. If it comes from C# it would contain a traceback with all functions called before so we can see where it comes.

1.5.5 is now out. Here we made some bigger changes to garbage collection handling that could cause unwanted pauses. At least the tests where we knew this happened are now fast without long pauses. Hope this also fixes some other side effects. Also it is compiled with a newer compiler not containing a potential compiler bug.

ijourneaux

I tried 1.5.5 last night. Unfortunately it didn't fix my problem. When I slice (Sclic3r 1.2.9) the little Marvin figure, it slices then switches to the Preview pane and then hangs hard with lots of continuous disk activity. Not thinking ahead, I had upgraded both windows and the slicer at the same time. This time I got to see the Preview of Marvin but that was it.

I am replacing the hard disk and Windows setup, but I am not sure that is going to help as Cura and MatterControl both seem to work correctly.

I don't get any error from RepetierHost itself only the error in the event log. Is there any way I could get you more debug info.

Repetier

First MatterControl and Cura are completely different software - it is not to expect that they ever get the same problems. Each gets it's own set I guess.

What keeps me wondering is your disk activity. If you could see the preview there is no need for more activity and slic3r is finished. So you should check in taskmanager or resource monitor who is doing this and why. Could it be swapping memory, which slows everything down? Marvin is a small figure if I remember so it should be no problem. Anyhow check how much memory the host uses.

ijourneaux

I know they are completely different programs doing things completely differently but doing them successfully. I really want to stay with Repetier Host. Just want to help out to solve the problem.

Here is some more information.

Marvin is a small model and it work before with earlier version of Repetier Host under 64bit Win7.

Today,I swapped in a new hard drive (SSD this time around). I loaded up Task Manager with Repetier Host side by side and able to slice Marvin with Slicr and get to the Preview window. I had not been able to do that before. Unfortuantely I clicked on the Preview window to try and rotate Marvin and immediatey the memory consumption in Task Manager went to 100% and Repetier host crashed. This laptop Lenovo T520 has an i5 processor and 4Gb of Memory running 64bit Win10.

It shouldn't have any trouble doing this.

PS I enabled logging to see if that resulting in any info but the log file is empty.

ijourneaux

Not ideal but I returned to version 1.0.6 and the crash does not occur with slic3r 1.29