DK 8.8 latest does not start on Win11

[Andrej Valencic]

I did the recommended changes to digikam_systemrc but unfortunately that 
didn't help - DK still doesn't run.
Any other things I might try?

Regards,
Andrej

On 20/08/2025 09:30, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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