[Vectorworks crashing in DirectX 11 on some Windows systems]

Hey everyone, just posting in this thread as I ran in to a similar issue with my 2023 install.  Same Alienware laptop as I had my 2022 issue with, but instead of throwing an error VW 2023 would work fine on the laptop's built in screen, but would freeze up 100% when moved to an offboard monitor.  Adding VW2023 as a blacklist in Nihimic (see many posts above on how to do that) solved the issue for 2023 again.

[Vectorworks crashing in DirectX 11 on some Windows systems]

Alienware users - the information at this link:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/297952/nahimic-and-nvidia-drivers-conflict/

has so far worked for me on an alienware M15 R5 Ryzen edition.  I can now change workspaces and resize my windows and I am not getting the DLL crash.  Remains to be seen if I run in to issues elsewhere, but so far so good.

 

Essentially you need to add the VW executable to a blacklist of programs for the Nihimic audio tools.

[Vectorworks crashing in DirectX 11 on some Windows systems]

Well this is just ridiculous.  No previous version of Vectorworks has had an issue with Dell and Alienware support services, and frankly I am not going to uninstall core features of a laptop I've purchased to be able to run a piece of software that should operate perfectly fine alongside them.

 

Just installed 2022 finally, and frankly it's unusable.  At this point I may as well uninstall 2022, reinstall 2021, cancel my VSS license, and just stick with 2021.

 

I'd like to think a fix was coming, but considering that we are apparently already on SP3 it seems pretty bloody unlikely.