QUOTE(XPort @ Apr 30 2006, 10:15 PM)

re: the random lockups - does it happen on every song or just on certain ones? Have you looked at the log file it generates after a crash? (log.txt or info.txt - it will either be where your XBE file is located or it will be in e:\saves\stepmaniax). Did you change any of the graphics settings? (Like enabling 32bit texturing or increasing the texture size or toggling the display of banners or whether banners are held in memory.)
If it's just for specific songs, please upload the entire song package somewhere so that I can investigate.
It physically "doesn't" crash, it just sits there on a black screen (when it's doing the transition), so I assume it crashed (I mean I leave it there for a good minute at least). It never happens on the same song, as I can reboot it and it'll be fine again. The only thing that isn't random is the songs that have a .gif banner (damn you japanese simfile makers). As soon as you scroll to said song, before the banner cache can even load, the music begins to loop (similar to the transition into select music), and never stops.
I have played with the graphics settings a bit, but I also went ahead and deleted the ini from the saves folder, and leaving the default settings doesn't really help the crashes.
My exact XBE filepath is F:\Games\Stepmania\default.xbe.
I'll test out it some more later today in about 8 hours from now, but I at least want jpg/gifs to work. I don't want to go and convert everyones work I have accumulated, yet I want to be able to play their stuff.