Blitz crashes with high CreateTimer value

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Ross C

Warning, only run in windowed mode, as his freezes up my computer. It works at lower values, but seems to crash/freeze at 1500. Only Ctrl+Alt+Del and end task stops this.

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Graphics 800,600,0,0
SetBuffer BackBuffer()
a=True
fps=CreateTimer(1500) ; <<<< crashes at this value. works at lower values!
While Not KeyDown(1)
  WaitTimer(fps)
  Cls
  If KeyDown(57)
    For b=0 To 200
      If a=True
        ClsColor(255,255,255)
        a=False
      Elseif a=False
        ClsColor(0,0,0)
	a=True
      EndIf
    Next
  EndIf
  Flip
Wend