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iChat crashes: need to run in 32-bit mode?
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My friend and I finally got video chat working (he got a new iMac), so we tried playing around with the video effects. He had no problem, but whenever I tried to open the video effects in iChat, the program would freeze. I tried reinstalling iChat from the Snow Leopard disk to no avail.
Then I found something about running iChat in 32-bit mode by changing the setting in the Get Info window. This seems to have fixed the problem! This is a little disturbing that there was no indication that this was necessary and only through Googling was I able to figure it out. Any ideas why I was crashing before and why forcing it to run in 32-bit fixes it on my older MBP?
Steve
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You don't happen to have anything like iUSBCam installed? That could mess things up. ( Kind of a long shot, but... )
Do you get any error messages in the Console app when trying to run it in 64-bit?
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No, nothing special installed. And I can't seem to find the console messages from a few days ago. No big deal.
Steve
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I'm not sure. OS X would refuse to load any non-64 bit extensions if you were running it in 64 bit mode. Perhaps the binary is corrupt? Maybe your hard drive is showing it's first signs of failure.
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