Indesign 18.3 crashes on startup

[HYPPie]

So, that's what happens.
I know you are aware of it, but searching for maybe an answer, I see posts going back for years, with the same problem. I see CS6 posts! There might be something fundamentally wrong with the app, no?

I've reset preferences, and everything else I found searching the topic, nothing helps.
Anyway, uninstalling and switching to 18.1 let's me work. And that's what I am paying a lot of money for. This should not happen with a pro program like Indesign.

[Eric Dumas]

Hi,

Can you confirm the version of your operating system and the type of hardware you have (free space on the hard drive, graphics card, processor, RAM....)

[HYPPie]

I have about 500GB free space on an Nvme 1TB ssd, Nvidia 1660super, AMD 3800x, 32GB Ram... everything works just fine with every other program I have. Thank you

[HYPPie]

Windows 11 pro 64

[Steve Werner]

You might trying the directions in this article for restoring your InDesign preferences and caches, just to make sure you've thoroughly covered this as a possible problem:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

[HYPPie]

I can assure you, I have THOROUGHLY covered this. Thank you

[HYPPie]

You might want to read what I wrote, too sir.

I know by heart where the pref and cache files are now

[HYPPie]

Adobe knows of the issue and they are working on it, I read in another tread, while searching this. But they are working on it since CS6 or even earlier.And it always comes back. That's what worries me!

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi @HYPPie ,

We're so sorry to hear about the trouble. In addition to the suggestions shared above, please try the steps shared here and let us know if this helps or if you need further assistance. If it still doesn't work, please share system logs so we can share them with the Engineering team to investigate this further.

Thanks

Rishabh