DK 8.8 latest does not start on Win11

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Can you test with the new Qt6 Windows bundles version 8.8.0 just
published online at usual place ?

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 20 août 2025 à 10:49, Andrej Valencic
<andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
>
> 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
>