Blender stopped opening for me on windows 10 When I open blender, the command box pops up, goes away, a grey window opens and then closes immediately with no error message or anything. Even when running as administrator. From following some other posts on the issue I did manage to get an "exception_access_violation" error when running in cmd.

I've completely reinstalled blender multiple times now (always going in and manually deleting anything left behind after each install in AppData and program files) I've tried both of my hard drives, both 64 and 32 bit, both zipped and installer. I've tried reinstalling my graphics driver and running the intel processor updater (though it said there was nothing to update)

I've tried downloading a new opengl32.dll but putting it in the blender install directory did nothing, and when I try to replace the system32 one it says I need permission even after granting administrator permission.

I very recently completely wiped my entire computer and installed a fresh version of windows 10. and Blender was running fine for a while. The only thing I can think of that I for sure did between it working and not working is that I updated my graphics card driver (Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070. Now ver 416.94)

Anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions on fixes? I'm banging my head against a wall here.
Ok, so the best way to solve mysterious bugs like this is to divide and conquer. Basically try to isolate things that might cause it and run experiments that rule those things out. What you end up with at the end will be the issue. 

We can't really be of much help since this process requires access to the machine with the issue. But perhaps trying this method may help you.

So, you've mentioned you have an access violation? That, sadly for you, is the equivalent of announcing you've lost your needle in a particular haystack.

Something you could perhaps try is to run blender from the command line with some of its debugging options. For instance try

blender.exe --debug


There's no guarantee that you won't get a crash, but at this stage, its probably beneficial to try and gather more information that will narrow down where the problem is.