Steel Panthers bug ?

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Backing to desktop clears the buffers and short term memory. IIRC, it also clears out the cache memory (L1, L2). I got tired of doing that a lot since the chip I'm running has no L2 cache and I starting researching it and found that if I turn off cideamon.exe BEFORE starting a turn it helps a lot.

Are you sure?
unless you lose stuff on your computer a lot try adjusting your file search settings to basic & cidemon.exe wont run. It records where stuff is on the harddisk to a logfile for searching purposes only to speed up but how often do you search for stuff?
Tried alt tabing & could not see any real diffrence cache dropped 1-3MB thats all. Perhaps if you are very short on memory starting another process/program clears the cache some do try & create as much space to run in as possible, increasing your page file might help.

cidaemon.exe updates the search log fairly often. AFAIK, that search log is used by many of the DLL's. That is why I don't want to permanently disable it. I'm no windoze maven, but those DLL's have always been a big part of all the problems windoze has. This Machine has only two slots and cannot take anything larger then 512 per slot (yes, I know, OLD gear. But I'm an old guy, so the old gear thangie is OK)
IMHO, the stack overflows and a wrong value is returned because the pointer is getting "lost". That is why the screen goes psychedelic. 'course, that theory doesn't explain why the system doesn't lock up when the stack overflows. I wonder if cidaemon.exe and it's ability to take 100% of resources might be derailing the fatal error code. Don't know enough about modern chip structure to have a guess on that.
Windoze is so buggy Microsucks might have hard wired the 'run on fatal' switch in the ON position just to get the beast out the door.