Davinci Resolve 16 and 17 crash on startup
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:26 pmToday morning when I wanted to open DaVinci Resolve 16 it stuck at loading the Fairlights page, then the startup window closed and nothing happened. Since I'm using Windows 10, I looked at my task manager and saw resolve.exe idling using 0% of my CPU and about 1.6 GB of RAM.
I assumed, it had something to do with me deleting several Python related things and thought Resolve maybe was programed in Python and now is searching for a file that doesn't exist anymore or something like that. So, I downloaded DaVinci Resolve 17 and installed it, hoping, it would restore whatever it needed. Seemingly, Resolve 17 automatically uninstalled 16 and installed itself. However, when I wanted to start 17, it did almost the same thing as 16. It crashed after loading Fairlights but didn't even show up in my task manager.
Then I updated my graphics drivers hoping the new Resolve would somehow rely on newer drivers that I hadn't installed, yet. But it changed nothing.
So, I uninstalled 17 again, hoping I would not lose all my projects because Windows said all related data would be deleted if I uninstalled Resolve. I really hope, I didn't delete my projects since I've been working for hundreds of hours on these and my nerves are bare at the moment to be perfectly honest.
After uninstalling 17, I reinstalled 16, hoping it would somehow work again as it did yesterday and all the days before. But it didn't. It behaved just as it did this morning.
In case it matters, my specs are:
Windows 10 Home Edition
Ryzen 7 1700X
16 GB DDR4 RAM
Nvidia GTX 1080
I really hope anyone can help me and that all my projects aren't gone. I've been working on these since August.
I assumed, it had something to do with me deleting several Python related things and thought Resolve maybe was programed in Python and now is searching for a file that doesn't exist anymore or something like that. So, I downloaded DaVinci Resolve 17 and installed it, hoping, it would restore whatever it needed. Seemingly, Resolve 17 automatically uninstalled 16 and installed itself. However, when I wanted to start 17, it did almost the same thing as 16. It crashed after loading Fairlights but didn't even show up in my task manager.
Then I updated my graphics drivers hoping the new Resolve would somehow rely on newer drivers that I hadn't installed, yet. But it changed nothing.
So, I uninstalled 17 again, hoping I would not lose all my projects because Windows said all related data would be deleted if I uninstalled Resolve. I really hope, I didn't delete my projects since I've been working for hundreds of hours on these and my nerves are bare at the moment to be perfectly honest.
After uninstalling 17, I reinstalled 16, hoping it would somehow work again as it did yesterday and all the days before. But it didn't. It behaved just as it did this morning.
In case it matters, my specs are:
Windows 10 Home Edition
Ryzen 7 1700X
16 GB DDR4 RAM
Nvidia GTX 1080
I really hope anyone can help me and that all my projects aren't gone. I've been working on these since August.