Opening darktable on new pc, just immediately starts-stops

Software darktable
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Most often, the problem is not the hardware, but the drivers – see the MS OpenCL Compatibility Pack below. There is very little darktable’s developers can do there, if a broken driver causes a fatal error even when just checking for what is available. That said, there have been many enhancements.

The normal troubleshooting steps involve:

  • opening a command prompt (Windows key + R, type cmd, press Enter – alternatively, select command prompt from the start menu);
  • running darktable-cltest and darktable from that command prompt (enter the command cd "\program files\darktable\bin", then execute darktable-cltest and darktable -d common -d opencl);
  • checking the logs and sharing them here;
  • trying launching darktable with darktable --disable-opencl from the command prompt (if it is an OpenCL problem, that will solve it 100% of the time);
  • often, uninstalling the Microsoft OpenCL Compatibility Pack helps (Darktable not opening - #6 by kofa, I can't get Darktable to work anymore - #4 by kofa).
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