Is there an existing issue for this problem?
Install method
Invoke's Launcher
Operating system
Windows
GPU vendor
Nvidia (CUDA)
GPU model
RTX 5090
GPU VRAM
32GB
Version number
6.12.0
Browser
Brave (But the embedded Electron/Chrome Won't start)
System Information
Windows 10 Pro
64GB RAM
All the things
What happened
Launcher failed to start.
What you expected to happen
InvokeAI UI appears
How to reproduce the problem
Install Invoke Community Edition Launcher on a Windows machine with an RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPU.
Launch Invoke Community Edition.exe.
Process dies immediately
Additional context
Environment
- OS: Windows 10 Pro, version 22H2 (Build 19045.x), 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i9-14900KF
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (Blackwell architecture)
- NVIDIA driver: 596.49 (Windows reports
32.0.15.9649, dated 2026-05-04)
- CUDA runtime: 13.2
- Launcher version: Invoke Community Edition 1.8.1.0
Crash pattern
Four consecutive crashes of the launcher within ~14 minutes on 2026-05-13, all with identical signatures — same exception code (0x80000003) and, notably, same fault offset (0x000000000713691b) across all four. The deterministic offset rules out race conditions or non-deterministic heap issues; the crash is at a fixed code location in Chromium GPU init every time.
| Time (local) |
Process ID |
Report ID |
| 00:58:02 |
0x5190 |
dc5ff576-7239-4023-9abb-1f04e8170a8a |
| 01:00:11 |
0x8d4 |
a8a98a1f-7372-4ab1-b332-c1266e507c77 |
| 01:00:37 |
0x7c8 |
9b58bc32-483c-4494-b4f2-ec28a3002aba |
| 01:12:10 |
0x1f04 |
33da68c5-91d4-4721-b760-726c0277dc49 |
Concurrent working Chromium-based apps
nvidia-smi confirms multiple Chromium-based applications are running and using the GPU successfully on the same machine while the Invoke launcher cannot start:
- Brave browser — actively using GPU, fine
- Bitwarden 2026.3.1 — running with
--use-gl=swiftshader workaround, fine
- Microsoft Edge WebView2 — fine
- DWM (Windows compositor) — fine
This isolates the failure to Electron-bundled Chromium specifically, not to Chromium-based software in general or to the NVIDIA driver in general.
Discord username
No response
Is there an existing issue for this problem?
Install method
Invoke's Launcher
Operating system
Windows
GPU vendor
Nvidia (CUDA)
GPU model
RTX 5090
GPU VRAM
32GB
Version number
6.12.0
Browser
Brave (But the embedded Electron/Chrome Won't start)
System Information
Windows 10 Pro
64GB RAM
All the things
What happened
Launcher failed to start.
What you expected to happen
InvokeAI UI appears
How to reproduce the problem
Install Invoke Community Edition Launcher on a Windows machine with an RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPU.
Launch Invoke Community Edition.exe.
Process dies immediately
Additional context
Environment
32.0.15.9649, dated 2026-05-04)Crash pattern
Four consecutive crashes of the launcher within ~14 minutes on 2026-05-13, all with identical signatures — same exception code (
0x80000003) and, notably, same fault offset (0x000000000713691b) across all four. The deterministic offset rules out race conditions or non-deterministic heap issues; the crash is at a fixed code location in Chromium GPU init every time.Concurrent working Chromium-based apps
nvidia-smiconfirms multiple Chromium-based applications are running and using the GPU successfully on the same machine while the Invoke launcher cannot start:--use-gl=swiftshaderworkaround, fineThis isolates the failure to Electron-bundled Chromium specifically, not to Chromium-based software in general or to the NVIDIA driver in general.
Discord username
No response