@frob I looked in a call stack, there is nothing I can see because excpetion occured in dll file msvcr80.dll

Ogre 2.1 has been made officially available. The new release of the open source rendering engine includes:

• HLMS - high level material system to generate shaders automatically
• Physically Based Shading
• New, more flexible and faster compositor
• Refactored with cache friendly techniques, SIMD instructions, …