The other is a paid edition named DaVinci Resolve Studio which provides everything in the free version and some more advanced features including DaVinci Neural Engine, stereoscopic 3D tools, and so on.įor past few months, some users reported that DaVinci Resolve keeps crashing on launch or won’t open. One is a free edition simply named as DaVinci Resolve. It provides 2 versions for different users.

Fix 5: Convert the Video Files to the MOV FormatĭaVinci Resolve, previously known as da Vinci Resolve, is a color correction and non-linear video editing application available on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Fix 4: Move the Source Video Files to Another Place.

Fix 2: Use A Dedicated GPU and Disable Integrated GPU.

Fix 1: Launch DaVinci Resolve in Compatibility Mode.

About Davinci Resolve Not Opening Issue.

(For 'free' we can't complain too loudly, I guess. Anything else produces wrong results, or it crashes. You must 'learn' what it can do, and do only that. Then again it is buggy software - meaning you can't do anything you want.

The Blackmagic Design programmers really need a flogging for not fixing such a nonsensical code error, which prevents untold numbers of potential users from getting hooked on their software. Run Resolve again and this time it will run (no error messages). The YouTube video tells you to find 'opencl.dll' in the Resolve folder and rename it to 'openncl.dll' (adding another 'n' so the program will not find it). After installation, when you run it, you'll get an error message 'Resolve.exe Entry Point Not Found - The procedure enty point DeleteCriticalSection could not be located in the dynamic link library api-ms-win-core-syngh-l1-2-0.dll' and it will not run.

You must be online while doing this to allow Resolve to grab additional parts from Blackmagic Design. A few users had other problems (too weak hardware, too old video drivers and/or. Then, not wanting to give up, did more searching and came across this YouTube video - 'How to run DaVinci Resolve on Windows 7 and 8? The procedure entry point DeleteCrytical. Wiped that clean and tried again, this time installing Resolve and then using Sandboxie to run it. That didn't even allowed Resolve to finish installing. First, I tried installing Resolve using SandBoxie. I grabbed the most recent Resolve (16.2.3) and Sandboxie (now released as freewqre) and gave it a go. But I found this thread (some years later) and was enthused to try it.

I, too, am a Win7 user and also found that DaVinci Resolve became 'broken' on my system after v.14.2.

Davinci resolve 14.3 problems