Rainmeter silently crashes randomly every single day after hours of running fine (dll error in Event Viewer)

[Yincognito]

Out of curiosity, any idea why this dll is mentioned in the Windows log error when the crash happens? What does that dll have to do with the missing png and the flooded log and further, the closing of Rainmeter?

The ntdll.dll file is mostly concerned with system tasks and it includes a number of kernel-mode functions which enables the Application Programming Interfaces in post Windows NT (aka APIs). It's also responsible for "messages, timing, threading and synchronization in the operating system" according to our friend Google, so this is why the said .dll / module threw the error in your Event Viewer (messages mean data transmitted from a program to another i.e. how they communicate with each other, threading is about scheduling the execution of small parts of a process, and timing and synchronization are more or less self explanatory). Basically, in non-technical terms, this tells you a program (Rainmeter in this case) didn't have the time to do its thing and call the APIs it needed or that those APIs couldn't finish their thing in time (which is what happened here, and the cause for the crash).

[just4747]

The ntdll.dll file is mostly concerned with system tasks and it includes a number of kernel-mode functions which enables the Application Programming Interfaces in post Windows NT (aka APIs). It's also responsible for "messages, timing, threading and synchronization in the operating system" according to our friend Google, so this is why the said .dll / module threw the error in your Event Viewer (messages mean data transmitted from a program to another i.e. how they communicate with each other, threading is about scheduling the execution of small parts of a process, and timing and synchronization are more or less self explanatory). Basically, in non-technical terms, this tells you a program (Rainmeter in this case) didn't have the time to do its thing and call the APIs it needed or that those APIs couldn't finish their thing in time (which is what happened here, and the cause for the crash).

Awesome, thanks!

[Yincognito]

Awesome, thanks!