DK 8.8 latest does not start on Win11

[Gilles Caulier]

We need the debug traces captured by DebugView at startup of digiKam...

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 20 août 2025 à 10:43, Andrej Valencic
<andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
>
> It's the same as before (see attachment) - no obvious error indication
> that I could see.
>
> This is what my systemrc contains::
>
> [System]
> useHighDpiScaling=true
> useHighDpiPixmaps=true
> disableOpenCL=true
> enableLogging=true
> enableFaceEngine=false
> enableAesthetic=false
> enableAutoTags=false
> proxyUrl=
> proxyPort=8080
> proxyType=0
> proxyAuth=false
> softwareOpenGL=false
> disableHWConv=false
> videoBackend=ffmpeg
> enableOpenCL=false
> enableHWVideo=true
> enableHWTConv=true
> enableAITools=true
> deleteOldDNNFiles=true
> enableAIAutoTools=true
> enableDnnOpenCL=false
> dnnOpenCLTested=false
> softwareOpenGL=true
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrej
>
> On 20/08/2025 10:23, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > 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