Thank you, I found them. Unfortunately there’s just the one nvidia driver that I updated this morning. I do see another windows update available now so maybe that’ll help!
Did you delete the lock files not the database. They get left from previous crashes and can prevent DT from opening??
The kick files reappearing is normal. When darktable starts, it first checks whether they exist. If they do, you get the error you showed above. If they don’t, darktable creates them, to protect from two instances making conflicting changes. Finally, when you close darktable, the lock files are removed.
The crash prevents that removal that would normally occur.
Having the Nvidia card listed several times could be a problem. I don’t use darktable with Nvidia on Windows, so cannot help you more. 