Blender instantly closes on startup

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This has started today, and I'm not sure what happened, since I had been using 2.83.2 for a while. The process is as depicted: I click on either the Blender shortcut, or the direct .exe file, it boots up the command tab, and then it closes. I have tried using other versions, these don't work either. It may be a problem I've had in the past where Blender 2.83 closed because I tried copying the preferences from 2.82.

I'm pretty sure it's not a performance problem, but I'll tell this if it helps.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 i7-8750H 32 GB of RAM 8 GB of VRAM

Generic suggestion: try updating any device drivers on your PC, and try reinstalling Blender itself. May be easier than trying to figure out what actually went wrong... — zippy, Jul 21 '20 at 19:19
Start blender from the command line, if it crashes it usually prints an error into the cmd — WhatAMesh, Jul 21 '20 at 20:19
WhatAMesh, how should I do it? Like, I guess I have to enter a command in either python or cmd but I don't know which — Throndronis, Jul 21 '20 at 21:17
Should the issue reoccur, I would suggest you follow this guide to narrow down the cause. — Robert Gützkow, Jul 22 '20 at 10:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '20 at 10:44

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Apparently the solution to this all along was restarting my PC, which I didn't think would fix the problem so I didn't try in the first place.

answered Jul 22 '20 at 10:44

Throndronis

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If its not just some generic bug there maybe be a misplaced EXIT python command in some plugin you are using. If not directly they may be calling some module with one. Thats happened to me. It was only being called under very circumstances so it was torture to debug. – Gary Carlyle Cook Jun 05 '22 at 12:10

Blender instantly closes on startup

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