Crash upon starting R7 or R6

I was goofing around with some PBR material assignments in R7 to learn more about how to get Cycles rendering to compare with old Octane and Thea renderings and having great results. I was getting a lot of crashes at first but I think was making progress until just now when I had a file hang and I had to force quit Rhino. I wasn’t bothering to submit the crash reports until I did a restart. I restarted R7 and still got the crashes right after opening. Didn’t matter if I double clicked the desktop icon to start or went to the pull down and ‘opened’. I can open in safe mode but when it has to load plugins it looks like Thea render will trigger a crash. I have just updated my Nvidea drivers and everything I can image with no joy! Any ideas?

Here is what I get when I run SysInfo

Rhino 7 SR2 2021-1-21 (Rhino 7, 7.2.21021.07001, Git hash:master @ 96ff97351fbdf5d2acdeaf781aea1577f2ff60f7)
License type: Evaluation, build 2021-01-21
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2021-04-01

Windows 10.0.19041 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 1-22-2021 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: (null)
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1

Secondary graphics devices.
Intel® HD Graphics 530 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 9-5-2020 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #0

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: On
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: Unknown
Render version: (null)
Shading Language: (null)
Driver Date: 1-22-2021
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6140
Maximum Texture size: n/a
Z-Buffer depth: n/a
Maximum Viewport size: n/a
Total Video Memory: 8 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.2.21021.7001
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.2.21021.7001
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\Alerter.rhp “Alerter”
C:\Program Files\Rhino WIP\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.2.21021.7001

It looks like when I open R7 in Safe Mode I only have wireframe and Thea mode available. I’m thinking that Thea is the culprit here but haven’t used it for weeks.

I’ve sent a dozen crash reports in on this and hope to see some response from that.

Having the same problem. Crashing every time I try to hit render. Hard to get hold of Thea support team