It seems every time I use the sin function in the point sop, as in
sin($TX*400 + $T )
it crashes houdini when I add the $T into the expression! I don't remember this ever happening before. Could it be because I upgraded my Intel dual core to a quad core? I don't see anything about it in the bug journals – Am I out of my mind? Has anyone run across this?

using XP with the new VC8 5.303 build, but it happened first in 5.170, which is why I installed the new build in the first place……

Works fine here. Maybe you could upload your file, that way we can see what you are trying to do exactly…

note to self - always check crash log:

Traceback from Thu Jan 08 18:53:15 2009
Caught signal 11
+0x06ec0738

I turned off
\Preferences>Scripting>Context Sensitive Popup Help
and it seems to have gone away. Could this be a graphics driver issue? It's odd, because it happened with more than one machine.

windows XP, btw