# Paraview Crashes when open file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262 "2020-05-05T14:16:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![KB92](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/kb92/32/10407_2.png) [@KB92](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/KB92)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262/1 "2020-05-05T14:16:43Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to open a group of VTK files in ParaView v5.8.0. but it crashes when I hit apply after loading the files.  
The software was working okay a month ago.

Help is appreciated.

Thank You.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262/2 "2020-05-05T16:35:17Z")

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Welcome to the ParaView community, Khush!

If things use to work, and now they don’t, frequently it is an issue with configuration files. Remove them by running ParaView, then Edit/ Reset to Default Settings. Please keep backups (that is one option). If it doesn’t gets fixed, please post these files here, so developers can figure out what went wrong.

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### Author: ![KB92](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/kb92/32/10407_2.png) [@KB92](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/KB92)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262/3 "2020-05-22T21:46:20Z")

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My computer has Nvidia Quadro T1000 Graphic card. when I disable it, paraview works okay but while graphics card enabled, it doesn’t.  
How can I fix it? Please elaborate.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262/4 "2020-05-24T03:14:20Z")

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How do you disable/enable your card ?

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### Author: ![KB92](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/kb92/32/10407_2.png) [@KB92](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/KB92)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262/5 "2020-05-25T19:10:00Z")

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Hi, I do it from the device manager.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-open-file/4262/6 "2020-05-26T01:36:14Z")

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Everything points to a driver issue, do you have this problem only with the file you mentioned ?