DK 8.8 latest does not start on Win11

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 08:30:51 BST 2025


Le mer. 20 août 2025 à 09:23, Andrej Valencic
<andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I just downloaded the latest build 8.8 for Windows (dated 2025-08-20
> 04:49) and it doesn't start anymore. When i run DK it just displays the
> start flash image and then closes. Some older releas was working without
> problem.
>
> I tried the debug version as well so I'm including the log.
>
> P.S. I noticed that this version is much smaller then it was a couple of
> releases earlier (now 200+ MB, before 600+ MB). Could it be a problem
> with included libraries?

No. It's the huge NVIDIA SDK previously embedded which is now dropped.

Your problem is relevant to the OpenGL support. Turn on the software
OpenGL support as explained here :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507615#c5

Best regards

Gilles Caulier


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