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@burnersen burnersen released this 21 Aug 10:52
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A clearer message when the Windows web view stops

Some starts end with a small window saying "The WebView2 process crashed and
the application needs to be restarted", and the program closes. That wording
comes from the window toolkit, and it is misleading: NVENCForgeGUI does not
crash there, and nothing on your disk is harmed. What stops is the web view
that Windows itself provides (WebView2, the Edge component this window draws
its interface with).

This release replaces that one sentence with something honest and useful:

The Windows web view (WebView2) stopped. NVENCForgeGUI itself did not crash and
no file was harmed — please just start it again. If this keeps happening, repair
the web view: Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime
→ Modify → Repair.

What this does not do is fix the underlying fault, and it would be dishonest
to claim otherwise. It was measured over roughly 215 starts, and it happens
somewhere between one in five and one in twenty starts regardless of:

  • the program version — 1.0.2 does it just as often, so this is not new,
  • the web view's data folder, even a completely fresh one,
  • GPU acceleration, on or off,
  • how quickly the program is started again after closing it,
  • the WebView2 runtime version, before and after repairing it.

Windows' own system file check came back clean as well. The fault sits in the
web view, outside this program. If it happens to you: start the program again,
that is all. Nothing is lost, no conversion is affected, no setting is touched.

Everything else is unchanged: same converter, same output, same settings.

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