DK 8.8 latest does not start on Win11

[Gilles Caulier]

If you install debugview and start digiKAm, what do you seen as debug
trace. See the notice here :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#windows-host

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 20 août 2025 à 10:20, Andrej Valencic
<andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
>
> 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
>