V8 Crashing

Rhino
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Version 8 SR26
(8.26.25337.13001, 2025-12-03)

I’ve just had a bit of drama over V8 opening one day with the screen completely changed, to a maxed-out 4 view, with grid, no command line, and the tool bars all a different size. Also all the aliases lost, and the F key settings gone also.

Anyway, in the process of putting it back to my liking it suddenly crashed, with no crashdump, while editing the options / keyboard.

I have no idea what caused either of these things, but why I am posting about it is I’ve recently being using a dedicated lighting program made in Sweden.

They definitely think differently, and its been amusing and also frustrating getting my head around their logic.
Anyway, one thing they have, and which I suggest rhino adopt, is how they handle a crash.

The program simply automatically saves every command state, since the last save, as, or just after its executed.
If there is a unexpected shutdown, then when you re-open the file it will be in the state of the last manual save, but you are asked if you want to restore the file to last number of unsaved steps. Assuming you want to do that, the file just opens pretty much as you left it, regardless of when you last actually saved it.

For example; I start a new file, and add a few things, and work with it, then, without saving it at all i just shut windows down, ignoring the message about unsaved work.
Then when windows has restarted, i open the program, and choose open new file. It asks me “Do you want to restore the x number of unsaved steps”
And the whole thing I had been doing is restored as if I never left.

This appears to be foolproof so far; there are no options to adjust or disable this; its just a built -in thing. Easy. No Drama.

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Hi Rabbit,

Please run the SystemInfo command in Rhino and post the results.

if you aren’t getting a crashreport option we should look at the Windows Reliability Monitor Details, it might offer a clue.

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Here you go..

(I’ve updated the video driver before I saw your message, the previous one was 572.16)

Rhino 8 SR26 2025-12-3 (Rhino 8, 8.26.25337.13001, Git hash:master @ 8101f3280c017a52117cccd1b45f88ed34f79f7b)
License type: Commercial, build 2025-12-03
License details: Stand-Alone

Windows 11 (10.0.26200 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32GB)
.NET 8.0.22

Computer platform: LAPTOP  - Plugged in

Non-hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro P3200 (NVidia) Memory: 6GB, Driver date: 12-7-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 582.08
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro P3200 (NVidia) Memory: 6GB, Driver date: 12-7-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 582.08
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port

Secondary graphics devices.
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 3-6-2025 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device. Laptop lid is probably closed

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

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

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 12-7-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.8208
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 6 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\Commands.rhp	“Commands”	8.26.25337.13001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\rdk.rhp	“Renderer Development Kit”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp	“Rhino Render”	8.26.25337.13001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\RhinoRender.rhp	“Legacy Rhino Render”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\rdk_etoui.rhp	“RDK_EtoUI”	8.26.25337.13001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\NamedSnapshots.rhp	“Snapshots”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\MeshCommands.rhp	“MeshCommands”	8.26.25337.13001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\RhinoCycles.rhp	“RhinoCycles”	8.26.25337.13001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\Toolbars\\Toolbars.rhp	“Toolbars”	8.26.25337.13001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\3dxrhino.rhp	“3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\Displacement.rhp	“Displacement”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\SectionTools.rhp	“SectionTools”
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Hi Tony,

When Rhino crashes without a crash reporting dialog, you can often find the crash dump file (.dmp) here:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps

Anything with today’s date?

– Dale

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yes, there are two ..

I’ll email to tech attn Dale…

cheers

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