I wanted to report that I got an unrecoverable 3D drawing error in MC18 last night. The operating environment conditions were as follows:
1. MC18 was up and running theater view on a Windows 7 64 bit HTPC and windows 7 was sleeping.
2. The HTPC was connected to a flat panel TV via HDMI through an AV receiver. The receiver and TV were both powered off.
3. Running latest version of MC18 available.
I powered up the system using a Logitech Harmony remote. Note that the TV is very slow to power up so the HTPC always powers up before the TV. The fact that the TV is not powered up first leads to a resolution update which is what I think leads to the 3D drawing error. When no monitor is connected, windows switches to a low default resolution. When the TV finally powers up and connects to the HTPC, windows detects the 1920 x 1080 TV and updates the resolution accordingly. Most of the time, MC detects the resolution change after the TV connects and quietly corrects itself. MC corrects itself as follows: MC may start out in a small corner of the TV (because of the low initial resolution) but quickly switches to full screen either by itself or as a result of a remote control operation. Sometimes, MC does not correct itself gracefully and indicates a 3D error. I ran MC17 for a couple of months and only got 1 3D drawing error and was able to correct it by switching to standard view (ctrl-1) and then back to theater view (ctrl-4). In this case, when the system finished powering up, MC18 theater view indicated that there was a 3D error. I tried switching to standard view via ctrl-1 but it didn't work. As I was trying to switch to standard view, windows indicated that MC18 stopped responding and I had to restart MC18 to fix the problem.