Hi McNeel
I’ve just had another crash (caused by drag and dropping a texture onto a PBR material) causing the X86 and X64 C++ redistributables to corrupt. The computer froze, so no crash report. Upon restart Rhino couldn’t start fully - stops at plugins. I’ve had this happen 3-4 times, and was wondering if this is something that can be fixed? Do you know if it’s caused by a particular part of Rhino or…? I can’t recall if it’s always caused by rendering related crashes, of if it’s more random than that. It’s not that fixing those 2 redistributables takes long, but it’s annoying as hell having to restart (once again) after repairing the X64 redistributable.
-Jakob
Did you have a Windows update applied during that time?
We have seen this increasingly happen since around summer 2025.
Rhino does not write to the distributables, it even can’t, unless you run Rhino as administrator (which you shouldn’t anyway). The Windows updates however do.
And unfortunately it often exhibits as crashes with viewports or rendering related task, but probably in other cases as well.
Just today I had to do a factory reset install of AMD GPU driver after the Windows update not long before that.
I don’t think we can do much except hope Microsoft get its act together. But maybe that is futile since these days approx 30 code is “AI” generated according its CEO. Strokes in my opinion with the uptick of these issues.
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Thanks for chiming in, @nathanletwory!
I don’t think so… that I’m running Rhino as admin, I mean. There probably was one or more Win updates installed - I kindda just let it do its thing, and I probably shouldn’t 
Again, this is not a big thing, as Rhino crashes are fairly few and far between - I was just wondering, if this was something that you guys could handle or if it is a MS-thing - since it’s their software. Thanks for clearing that up 
I’ll keep an eye out for any pattern with this happening; if nothing else, I can try to avoid provoking it.
And super depressing reading the link - some days I feel, that humanity as a whole has been unwillingly cast in the re-make of “Idiocracy”. As if we aren’t dumb enough by ourselves - now we have digitized stupidity and sloth 
Regards, Jakob
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