yesterday, w/ 3.04, i added a bunch of wav files to an empty project, hit play, started putting tracks in folders while it was building the peak files, and it did the same thing. reboot, tried it again, worked fine. did the same thing again later that afternoon - same workflow, different files, and it did exactly the same thing. it's happened before but generally it's a bit more random than that.
i spent a good half an hour trying to reproduce it today before giving up, and that crash occurred about 30 seconds after opening another project. can't get it to happen again, either.
the same issue seems to have occurred for another user here:
http://forum.cockos.com/showpost.php...29&postcount=7
do the two images - one showing the crashed thread list and one showing the working thread list - help at all? it looks like that 'createthread' thread is getting stuck in a loop waiting for a resource to free or something.
i have vs2008 on this machine, if it happens again i'll see if i can attach a debugger to it but it didn't let me do anything with process explorer. might try process monitor as well and see if it's hitting the registry or something. are there any other tools/methods i can use to bring up more info?