QB64 immediately crashes on startup (Win10, running in Parallels)

[RH]

I have a VM running Windows 10 in Parallels on my Macbook.

I'm not sure why it's not working, but after I extracted the application and then went to run it, it starts up,  I see a white application with the title QB64 and about 1 second later, the program stops.  I don't get an error message or anything, it just won't run.  I also tried to run QB64 as an admin, and it still won't run.

I grew up learning how to program on QBASIC and now I'd like to share the experience with my daughter who is also wanting to learn to code.  QB64 is working fine on her Windows 10 laptop, I just can't get it to work on my machine.

Does this sound familiar?  Is this a bug specifically from using Parallels?  Can it be fixed?  Thanks.

[FellippeHeitor]

Hi, RH. Welcome to the forum.

First off, go to your Windows Defender settings and whitelist both the whole QB64 folder and the process qb64.exe - after you do that, let me know if the issue persists.

Also, make sure to test with the latest development build too: https://www.qb64.org/portal/development-build/

[RH]

Thanks for the response.  I'll try this out tonight.

[RH]

Sorry for the late response.  I added the folder and the exe process to the exclusion list.  I also downloaded the linked dev build.  Neither solution worked.

[FellippeHeitor]

Check the following:
- Do you have full access to the folder where you unpacked QB64? Locations like "Program files" are a bad idea, for example.
- Did you unpack the full contents of the file?
- If you have a 64bit environment, does the 32bit version of QB64 also behave strangely?

[FellippeHeitor]

BTW, why aren't you running the macOS version of QB64 directly???