{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openscad/openscad/issues/1467","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openscad/openscad/issues/1467/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openscad/openscad/issues/1467/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openscad/openscad/issues/1467/events","html_url":"https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/1467","id":113952017,"number":1467,"title":"Crash on startup on Windows 8","user":{"login":"donbright","id":896858,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/896858?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright","html_url":"https://github.com/donbright","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/donbright/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openscad/openscad/labels/Crash","name":"Crash","color":"e10c02"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openscad/openscad/labels/Windows","name":"Windows","color":"e10c02"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2015-10-29T00:02:36Z","updated_at":"2015-11-12T05:39:23Z","closed_at":null,"body":"User spinorkit reports 2015 versions of openscad crash before start on several windows machines, where version 2014.03 works OK.\r\n\r\nhttp://forum.openscad.org/Access-violation-on-starting-OpenSCAD-Win8-tt14201.html#a14204\r\n\r\nCrash:\r\nWindows 8.0 Intel HD 4600 graphics PC \r\nWindows 8.1 HP notebook with AMD Radeon HD8500M graphics\r\nWindows 8.1 HP notebook with  NVIDIA GeForce GT630M graphics.\r\n\r\nOK:\r\nWindows 8.1 with a Radeon HD-5570\r\nWindows 7 with a GeForce GT-240\r\n\r\nCommandline vs Gui:\r\n\"Running openscad.exe --info crashes without output\"\r\n\r\n\r\nThere have been a large amount of changes to openscad.cc since 2014... \r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/openscad/openscad/commits/master/src/openscad.cc?page=1\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<bountysource-plugin>\r\n---\r\nWant to back this issue? 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These packages were built using mods to the msys2 branch.\r\n\r\n"}}