Crash to desktop when using Blender 2.8

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Hi all,

I’ve recently decided to make the switch from 3d max and Modo to Blender. Installed it today and immediately I’m greeted with a Crash to desktop. The crash happens as soon as I open up the material tab. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

My specs are as follows,

Intel core i7 @ 3.07GHz
6GB RAM
Geforce GTX 560 Ti
Windows 7 Professional 64bit

I appreciate it is a fairly old system, but I’m running Max and Modo on this system with zero problems.

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To me version 2.8 is behaving buggy in various ways all the time (crashing is only one of many issues). I still use it only for toying around, but stick still with 2.79 for more serious things.

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ok this is just a suggestion but try daily builds: https://builder.blender.org/download/

4

Delete camera, model some stuff, accidentally click the render button, see desktop and lose your work. Seems Blender 2.8 lacks some much needed error handling atm. Still, I wouldn’t want to go back to 2.79…

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yeah 2.8 does crash in odd places but you have recovery options like auto save and stuff

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Nice, gotta look into that.

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Like I said, the crash occurs when I open the material tab. So recovery options are irrelevant in this particular situation.

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thousands of crashes like this (when clicking on material ta) are being reported and almost all of them is connected to GPU drivers.
Did you try downloading the latest drivers?

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It’s the first thing I did. Still crashes.

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Anyone have any ideas how to resolve this issue? The same issue is happening on another machine I’ve installed this on.