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"Brightness.ini"skin (Backlight.dll) crashes Rainmeter on some systems #5
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Can you give me a list of all the skins you have currently loaded? And on the settings tab of rainmeter can you select 'Debug mode' and 'Log to file' so when it crashes again you can check the log file to see what the last thing rainmeter tried to do was. |
the only skin I use is this one, also I'm not sure what I'm looking for in the log file. one thing that pops up is it can't find "A GPU Catagory". and when it crashes, the program just gets closed by windows so I cant check the log, basically deleting everything before I start it up again. |
By skin I mean a list of all the individual skins loaded (see image). And for the log file, first turn on logging to a file(see second image), so when it crashes you can go to the file and see what happened right before it crashed. You don't have to understand the log file, you can just post it here and I'll try to make sense of it. It will be located here: |
Is this at the point where it crashes? |
I would start unloading one skin at a time (probably starting with the system.ini, and then the brightness.ini) to see if it stops crashing to narrow down which one it could be. |
I would also download the latest Beta just in case that fixes something... |
I unloaded skins slowly over time and I've found that the problem came from brightness.ini |
Thank you for finding that out. I had another user run into the brightness skin causing crashing as well. (That's why I don't have it installed by default in the layouts.) Could you tell me some info about the graphics on your system? Device Manager > Display adapters I didn't write the brightness plugin but I might be able to get the author to fix it if I have info on the graphics hardware that crashes it. |
And if you wanted to see if another version with a different plugin works try this one: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18506 If that one doesn't crash your system I can try incorporating that plugin into the brightness skin as an option. |
Found an alternative that does appear to be a lot more stable than both the DLL options. (Well ScreenBrightness.dll doesn't even seem to work for me) The problem is it's an exe so it may be a bit too resource-intensive. https://www.deviantart.com/arolust/art/Brightness-Control-623456695 |
basically ill be running this skin then it will just stop, im on wind 7 and it tells me that it just ran into a problem but dosnt say what it is
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