Hi everyone, My Rhino 8 crashes when starting up since a few weeks, the “opening screen” gets displayed as normal but when trying to open a file or start a new file, it crashes. It always happens when the progress bar displays '“Loading plugins Enscape” I’m guessing it is since the new update. I tr…

[image] Rhino crashing before opening I know this post mentions Cycles, but trust me - it’s very likely the same thing. If you repair the two C++ redistributables mentioned my guess is, that you’ll be good to go. See this thread HTH, Jakob Hi @Clément Try repairing the Microsoft C++ redistr…

It sounds like there remnants of the enscape plug still loading. Is it still possible to remove via Add or Remove programs? [image] Clément: My Rhino 8 crashes when starting up since a few weeks, the “opening screen” gets displayed as normal but when trying to open a file or start a new file, i…

I’ve now removed it completely and now Rhino doesn’t show “Loading plugins Enscape” anymore but rather crashes during the “Loading Viewports” phase. I’ve ran a repair on the Rhino installer and it didn’t help

I have now repaired the programs you indicated, restarted my computer and updated Windows but Rhino still crashes around “Loading Viewports” phase. Maybe rolling back to an earlier Rhino version could help as it did not seem to happen before ? Edit from 15min later : I repaired again the programs b…

Rhino crash when loading Enscape plugin

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Normand (Jakob Normand) November 19, 2025, 2:31pm 4

Hi @Clément
Try repairing the Microsoft C++ redistributables as mentioned in the above post.
Regards, Jakob

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Rhino crash when loading Enscape plugin

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