MCS is Crashing

[Scampy]

Old story

MCSX started crashing yesterday again. Did not matter which code file I tried to edited, any change in text caused the error message to pop up. I found that you can ignore the message and still compile the code and make changes. Out of frustration, I reinstalled pbp3 and mcsx. That did not help. On this laptop there was an old copy pbp 2.47. So I opened the file in this version without crashing. The only problem was 2.47 did not support my pic. I dug out my 2.60 cd which supports my pic and then patched it with the last update before pbp3. The 2.60 cd had MCS 3.3, now I'm back in business and on this pc done with pbp3/MSCX.

If anybody wants me to run any experiments let me know. Because it can be repeated. It would be nice if MEL could un-marry pbp3 from MCSX and allow the use of older versions of MCS. I am sure there is reason it can't be done.

System is a Gateway laptop, XP, not connected to the net for over 2 years. not sure what changed, other than the date.

Mark, that's interesting,

I'm running version 4.0.0.0 of MCS, version 2.60c of PBP and an old version of mpsam suit (5.07 I think) and I've been very lucky as I've never had a crash whilst coding or compiling etc. Yes I know the restrictions this combination has, but for me and the projects I undertake, the supported chipset is fine.

I don't have the needs to upgrade to PBP3 so my input may be irrelevant, but I hope that someone can sort out this issue for those who have had to upgrade in order to remain competitive

Oh and the PC is an AMD 6 core processor running at 3ghz, 12gb DDR3 ram, and windows 7 professional 64bit .... Are those experiencing this issue running windows 7 or later versions... maybe (clutching at straws) it only affects those running windows 8 or 10 ??