I've been running Affinity Designer 1.8.5 on windows 10 (x64) fine for quite awhile. I decided to update to 1.9.0 this evening, and immediately on launch it crashes.
I've "repaired", uninstalled and reinstalled, and updated my graphics (and other system) drivers, updated .Net, etc (all things I saw in other threads). All steps give me the same results: 1.9 shows the splash screen while loading fonts, then shows the main window (with a spinner) for about 5 seconds, then it just crashes -- no error or anything, just closes.
When I uninstall 1.9 and reinstall 1.8.5, that launches just fine.
I'm attaching the crash report for the latest crash of 1.9. Help!?
5a4f441a-6e61-426a-aa1d-6e4bd100fd91.dmp
EDIT:
I have a Surface Laptop 3 with Intel i7 CPU, Iris Plus Graphics, 16GB ram. The graphics driver I updated to is from Intel and is dated 1/8/2021, so very recent (previous version was from Sept 2020, so not too old). My Windows version is 20H2 (Build 19042.746).