DK 8.8 latest does not start on Win11

[Andrej Valencic]

That's what I've already included as an attachment in the previous 
message - DK.zip

Regards,
Andrej

On 20/08/2025 10:46, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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