cabled posted at 11:33 AM Fri, 17 March 2023 - #4458853

...when you get this behavior where a program simply "goes away"...no real errors, no real weird behavior before that- it just vanishes, it's a memory addressing issue.  Could be your physical RAM, could be the memory on the video card, could be hardware on the motherboard that sits between the memory and the rest of the system.  Could be driver issues or even a windows update.  Unfortunately, memory issues can be maddening to try and track down.

Well...poo.  That's not very reassuring.  I mean, I appreciate your honest feedback, not "sugar coating" the issue, but it's disheartening to read it could one or more of half a dozen independent causes.  Forcibly retired in November 2021 when the company (for whom I worked nearly 30 years) outsourced our department, I'm currently living on my life savings.  As such, I'm trying to be VERY careful with expenditures.  I'm resistant to "sending it to the shop" for a professional analysis and possible repairs.

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!