I have 5.3.0 running on an old desktop but not on a somewhat newer laptop. are there debug levels I can set to see exactly what the problem is? Thank you! Gene Risi

Please, give more information about your setup. Which operating system are you using? Did you build Slicer yourself or did you downloaded the pre-built binaries? If you downloaded the binaries, maybe you would like to give a try to 5.2.1 (stable) instead of preview version just to see if that makes …

Also search the forum for similar issues - there’s a lot of discussion about laptop drivers causing black screens, such as: [image] Latest Slicer showing black screen Support Hi, I am using slicer version 4.11.20200930 on windows 10 Pro version 2004 - 64 bit with lates…

[image] pieper: Also search the forum for similar issues True! Here’s another one: Slicer Black screen on opening software

Hello, I am running Win 10 Pro and a pre-built binary. I tried 5.2.1 and got the same results (also, similiar to others, there does appear to be a home screen behind it, with right clicking giving different options, etc. I can run 5.3 on my older home machine and I am trying a “last-ditch” effort …

I installed Ubuntu on the laptop and am running the Linux version of 5.3.0 without any problems.

Black screen on startup after seeing home page

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Black screen on startup after seeing home page

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