If Anki fails to launch and freezes at “Starting Anki…” or silently crashes, the cause is often a broken or outdated graphics driver—particularly with AMD Radeon GPUs. Anki’s GUI uses OpenGL via Qt, which can silently fail if hardware rendering is unsupported or broken. This worked for me: Update…

Fix for Anki Not Launching or Hanging on “Starting Anki…” (Windows, AMD GPU)

Anon_0000 May 24, 2025, 6:52pm 2

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