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<h1>Fix Inkscape Crashes on Windows — 6 Solutions</h1>
<p>Fix Inkscape crashes and freezes on Windows 10 and 11. Covers GPU driver conflicts, broken extensions, corrupted preferences, crash-on-save and clean reinstall.</p></section>
<div class="card card-blue"><h2>Crash diagnosis</h2>
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<thead><tr><th>When</th><th>Likely cause</th><th>Quick fix</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>On startup</td><td>Corrupted preferences or extension</td><td>Delete preferences.xml</td></tr>
<tr><td>On canvas scroll/zoom</td><td>GPU driver / OpenGL conflict</td><td>Disable GPU acceleration</td></tr>
<tr><td>Applying filter</td><td>GPU memory or driver bug</td><td>Update GPU driver</td></tr>
<tr><td>On save</td><td>Permissions or corrupted SVG</td><td>Save as Plain SVG elsewhere</td></tr>
<tr><td>After new extension</td><td>Broken extension</td><td>Remove new extension</td></tr>
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<div class="card"><h2>Fix 1 — Disable GPU acceleration</h2>
<p><strong>Edit → Preferences → Rendering</strong> → uncheck <em>Use GPU acceleration</em> → restart Inkscape.</p>
<div class="tip">Cannot open Preferences? Edit <span class="ic">%APPDATA%\Inkscape\preferences.xml</span> — set <span class="ic">renderbackend</span> value to <span class="ic">0</span>.</div></div>
<div class="card"><h2>Fix 2 — Launch without extensions</h2>
<div class="code-block"><code>"C:\Program Files\Inkscape\bin\inkscape.exe" --no-user-extensions</code></div>
<p>If stable, remove files from <span class="ic">%APPDATA%\Inkscape\extensions</span> one by one.</p></div>
<div class="card"><h2>Fix 3 — Reset preferences</h2>
<div class="code-block"><code># Win+R:
%APPDATA%\Inkscape
# Rename preferences.xml → preferences.xml.bak
# Restart Inkscape</code></div>
<div class="warn">Resets all settings. Documents not affected.</div></div>
<div class="card"><h2>Fix 4 — Update GPU drivers</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.nvidia.com/drivers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NVIDIA drivers</a></li>
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<div class="card"><h2>Fix 5 — Crash on save</h2>
<p><strong>File → Save a Copy → Plain SVG</strong> to Desktop. If successful, the original path has a permissions issue.</p></div>
<div class="card"><h2>Fix 6 — Clean reinstall</h2>
<ol><li>Uninstall via Settings → Apps</li><li>Delete <span class="ic">%APPDATA%\Inkscape</span></li><li>Reboot</li><li><a href="download.html">Install the latest MSI</a></li></ol></div>
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