Yes, but not if the program really crashed...
what seems a bit strange to me because it never happened to me, has someone else noticed program chrashes?
If this is a typical issue on other programs as well, i would look if the CPU gets to hot and get a better CPU fan+heatsink maybe!
Ok, without getting into it too deeply, I have built my machines since the early 80's and was the IT chef and primary computer system designer for scandinavias largest manufacturer of computers. I feel it is safe to say that it is definitely not my machine. If you want to see my machine spec:
Warhammer II (My Machine)
NZXT Phantom Chasis w/extra Noctua 120mm Fan in front bay.
Asus Crossfire Extreme Mainboard
AMD Phenom II 1090T Black Edition CPU @4013Mhz
Silverstone 1500 Watt Modular Power Supply
16 GB 2000mhz Corsair XM3 Ram (4x4Gb) @836 MHz (1672MHz)
Club Radeon HD 6950 Gfx Card
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
Corsair F120GB2 120Gb SSD Main OS Drive on 6GB/s AHCI SATA Channel
14 TB SATA 2 Drives (10Gb Internal 4TB External USB)
Card Reader w/16GB Fast SD Card with ReadyBoost/Swap)
DVD RW+/- Standard Optical Drive
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Razer Deathadder Gaming Mouse
Steelseries 5HV2 Gaming Headset
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with BlackBox/Rainmeter instead of Win7 Shell
Triple LG W2453TQ 24" 2ns 50,000:1 Widescreen Monitors in EyeFinity
Sorry for unnecessary info its a copy-paste from a hardware site I am a member of. My point is, its not my machine. It works like a champ with no problems in any other software. It can crunch Prime95 for 24 hours without a hiccup. I also want to be very clear in saying that M3D does not crash a lot... but it is also not impervious to crashing. No program really is. It is quite stable, and has only crapped out on me maybey 3 times in all the time I have been using it. I think its also fair to say that I run sometimes 4-5 copies of M3D at once, and usually with no issue. The few times I have had a crash were when it was working with extreme parameters and it quite literally crapped itself and shut down. I was going to reproduce one of the crashes to get you some bug data but I got lost in the fractal instead : )
Re-itterating: M3D does NOT crash a lot. But it CAN happen, and an autosave or autoback function would save those lost nuggets of gold, as we all know sometimes you are deep in it, and something awesome comes up, but you know you can never find exactly that spot again if you happen to crash.
///MindsEye