Godot won't launch or open (but it's running in task manager) FIX!

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Hey guys, I just wanted to share a solution to why Godot won’t open even if you see it running in the task manager. I was having this issue for the longest time and really could not figure out why. I even tried going into safe mode and it still would not open. I tried everything, even turning off my Windows Defender and firewall. It still wouldn’t even launch.
It turns out it was my MSI audio driver. Nahemic 2+ software. As soon, as I quit that application. Godot will launch. If I open up Nahemic, Godot will no longer launch. So I uninstalled that crapware (which I found out is not required). I also found that Nahemic was blocking a lot of itch.io games from launching properly too.

I thought I just share this info for anybody who has a PC or Laptop that uses Nahemic audio drivers such as MSI motherboards or MSI laptops. Uninstall it and you should be able to open Godot with no issues.

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Yeah, seems to be good advice in general to disable Nahimic (it comes on Dell/Alienware too). Haven’t run into that particular bug – for me it was running in-editor not working on a secondary monitor in Godot – but it seems to cause a variety of hard-to-troubleshoot problems with windowed applications.

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i just created this account to thank you, sincerely , if we ever met i’ll give you a big hug

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Haha, I’m glad I help fixed your issue! Nahimic is absolute trash, lol.

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I created this account just to say thank you. You made my day :sweat_smile:

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Oh Lord,

thanks for this advice. Had the exact same issue on my old MSI Notebook. It was driving me crazy. Even the console does not come up with any output.

Immediately after uninstalling the Nahimic Audio BS everything is running fine.

Thanks