I was excited to try the free version, but when I installed it and tried to open it, it never opens up. I’ve installed it on 2 windows laptops, both with the latest versions of Windows 11, but different hardware, and Zrhythm doesn’t open up. Just get the spinning blue circle for a couple of seconds.
I know after reading in technical support of others with exactly the same problem, but there doesn’t appear to be a resolution to this issue.
Really would love to give Zrythm a go.
Same issue here. Resource manager shows that zrythm.exe runs, but exits shortly after
Same issue, I opened up task manager and it Zrythm makes an appearance for a few seconds, and disappears.
The Same for me. I try on a fresh windows 11 up to date and all driver up to date too. Zrythm appear in the ressource manager runs and disappears. I purchase for v1 and v2 installer. the installer is fine but the soft crash…
I am also facing the same issue.
I reinstalled Zrythm, but it does not work.
Same here on Win10, but it doesn’t even show up in task manager
I really wanna try it, it seems like the most promising open-source DAW atm
I’m also having the same issue on a fresh install of the Zrythm trial on Windows 11 Home (24H2, 26100.3194).
Happy to help if I can with debugging.
I have no logs generated, tried the mingw route with no logs and I can try the VS Code way if needed as well but thought I’d wait for now.
also experiencing this exact issue
Unfortunately I don’t think there will be a good solution to this other than wait for v2. The software stack used in v1 is very unfriendly towards Windows/Mac and I don’t want to spend more time on v1. It seems stable enough on GNU/Linux though.
There’s still lots to do for v2 to be usable but I plan to restart nightly builds soon for testing.
thanks for the reply, we appreciate your work very much. what’s the eta on v2? i also use linux but having a windows version would be nice too
I’m aiming for April 2026 or earlier if all goes well.
Any luck with the v2 builds?
hello.
i had the same issue forever on my windows 10, even with repair attempts with GPT.
I tried the nightly build now alex posted and it just worked on the spot. but the menu is not functioning. no saving, no loading, no settings. everything in this window is not working properly.
all the other menus are fine though, but without setting the setting its kinda harsh to start.
Thanks for testing! Those things you mentioned are still unimplemented in v2 so it’s normal that they don’t work, but you should be able to create a new project and instantiate plugins and create some notes (or drag audio files into the tracklist) and hear the audio.
For now, I just want to see if Zrythm gets installed correctly and audio output works (something that people had issues with on Windows using v1). For complete functionality, please wait.