WMC Crashing after installing MB3... anyone else?

[th83 1]

I have had this happen now on 2 PCs (W7 x64), after installing ServerWMC and MB3, I have occasional crashes in WMC, seemingly at random. I have had it crash during live TV, recorded TV, and while watching locally stored video files. I had zero issues before installing MB3. Anyone else seen this, and if so, is there a known fix? For now I'm going to uninstall both products to see that will make WMC stable again, which is a shame because the software is great aside from that.

[ebr 16184]

I would start out by providing information on the crash.  See:  How to report a problem

 

Pay particular attention to the information in there about how to find the error in the Windows event log.

 

Then, the first step might be to not install ServerWMC and see what happens.

[th83 1]

I removed everything and reinstalled fresh, all is working fine now. Interestingly enough, when WMC would crash, nothing was recorded to the Windows Event Log.

[th83 1]

Update on this, the issue came back, but I tracked it back to a GeForce 730 card that I had recently installed. Apparently these cards in conjunction with the GeForce drivers cause a handles leak in the ehshell.exe process (only when watching 29/59 content), eventually causing a crash of WMC. I have submitted a bug report to NVidia.

[ebr 16184]

Thanks for the update.

[christoph86 12]

I've been having this same issue as well the past couple of weeks. I have a nvidia 640 gt. Did you roll back driver?