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Impress 4.1.13 keeps crashing with "Bad allocation" message. Once it completely crashed Windows 11 (22H2) on my Surface Book 3.

Try the latest Still version of the LibreOffice:
https://www.libreoffice.org/

Sorry but I don't know whether I should trust this reply since it offers a quite different URL that I don't know.

Zizi64 is a respected and longtime contributor to the Forum; you will note from his details that he has over 10,000 posts to his credit, so is unlikely to recommend frivolous or damaging results.

Whether you follow his URL is your choice.

Sorry but I don't know whether I should trust this reply since it offers a quite different URL that I don't know.

Have you even heard of LibreOffice? This Forum is a COMMON forum for the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org derivatives. One of the is the LibreOffice. It was forked at the version 3.0. The developer team of the LO is much more active than the developer team of the Apache OpenOffice is.

Check the history of the LibreOffice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History

Search the forum - especially the Calc forum - with bad allocation for many posts about it and an explanation.

grelf wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 10:18 pm Impress 4.1.13 keeps crashing with "Bad allocation" message. Once it completely crashed Windows 11 (22H2) on my Surface Book 3.

Could you give more details about crash
which document (odp or ppt)
all documents or only one

OK more details: My primary files are always .odp but I always save a second copy as .ppt in case of trouble (up until a few weeks ago there was no need). My most recent work has been revising a presentation from 2019 with just over 50 slides. Nothing very special - plain black background, text, line diagrams all created with Impress, placed images (tiff, jpg and png). The program seems to crash randomly, not when I am doing any particular thing. Only once was it while saving .odp. The most serious crash, a few days ago, caused great difficulty in getting my Surface to start up again - I had to use the reset procedure holding the power switch for nearly 30 seconds.
I am presenting tonight. I managed to get Impress to save my slides as PNG so I will use Windows Photo Viewer instead of Impress.

Did you do the search suggested?

I have recently been able to safely (no crashes) edit two .odp presentations from 2008, each of 60+ slides.

I would suggest trying Windows in Safe Mode on the Surface unit.

If you had transitions or if you want to use the presenter mode then try LibreOffice.
Maybe too late for this evening but worth a try. There are portable versions if you don't want to mess up with your system.

grelf wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 5:26 pm revising a presentation from 2019 with just over 50 slides

Which size for this ODP?
Maybe you can compress to gain with embedded pictures: