OpenVINO crashes Audacity

I’m trying to use OpenVINO in Audacity on Windows 10. However, for the past 4 versions of Audacity (currently 3.6.4) and the matching version of OpenVINO, each time I enable the module as instructed Audacity will no longer open. It crashes immediately and provides a long error dump that tells me nothing useful. Thoughts?

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Hi @heavyDuty99,

Can you post the long error dump? It will help me to understand where it is crashing.

Some folks are reporting an issue in openvino_intel_npu_plugin.dll – perhaps you can try deleting this file from C:\Program Files\Audacity, and see if the issue goes away.

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I deleted the .dll as suggested and it works great now. Thank you. Just for reference, here’s the top of the error dump:

Operating system: Windows NT
10.0.22631 4169
CPU: amd64
family 6 model 156 stepping 0
4 CPUs

GPU: UNKNOWN

Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION
Crash address: 0x7ffbaa9741ea
Process uptime: 6 seconds

Thread 0 (crashed)
0 openvino_intel_npu_plugin.dll + 0x141ea