Blender 2.79a crashes immediately on Laptop
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System Information
Windows 7 x64 bits. Gateway nv53a laptop> Athlon IIP320 Machine dual-core 2.10 ghz with 4gb Ram. Ati Mobility Radeon HD4200 series for graphic card.

Blender Version
Broken: 2.79a - Can´t create any geometry except torus.
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Short description of error
Immediate crash upon creating any geometry
I try to create a primitive mesh and blender closes. Only torus is the only one that can be done trhough SHIFT+A or clicking the UI button. All other primitives crash blender. I deactivated some of the addons and the crash still continues.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
This blender directory is on a different drive than default blender´s directory. Blender 2.79a is unpacked on my D:\program files\Blender 2.9-a. I open blender and create a primitive mesh. Application closes immediately.

Related Objects

Mentioned Here: T53996: blender is crashing

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David (activemotionpictures) created this task.Feb 16 2018, 10:21 PM

David (activemotionpictures) updated the task description. (Show Details)

ts highly likely that this bug is specific to your hardware/driver configuration. These kinds of display issues are often caused by OpenGL driver bugs.

While its possible a software error in Blender, its worth checking if this functions correctly...

After upgrading graphics card drivers.
On a different system (with different hardware/drivers).
Using a Software OpenGL renderer...
On Linux/macOS, Official releases come with blender-softwaregl
On MS-Windows: Download this dll and copying it so its located in the same directory as 'blender.exe' and run Blender normally.
If this is a driver bug, or we can't link to this to an error in Blender's code, the report may be closed as a driver error, so please help us determine whether this is a bug in Blender or not.

I am experiencing same behavior.
The title of this issue should be renamed to "Crashes on Edit-mode or mesh creation"
I've been running 2.79rc2 since August for hours at a time. Still works and is very reliable.
After the blender crash, I updated my graphics driver using the Windows driver update, rebooted, blender does the same crash.
I copied the opengl32.dll (linked above) into the same directory with the blender.exe. Same crash behavior.
I set the startup to factory settings, same crash behavior.

Probably the same as T53996 .

Steps to Reproduce:

start blender.
click to dismiss splash screen
looks normal.
Tab OR click to edit-mode OR Shift-A choose mesh cube.
Blender window closes really fast.

Blender -d output:

C:\Users\j\Downloads\blender-2.79a-rc-windows64>blender.exe -d
Switching to fully guarded memory allocator.
Blender 2.79 (sub 0)
Build: Tue 01/23/2018 07:00 AM Windows
argv[0] = blender.exe
argv[1] = -d
read file C:\Users\j\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\config\userpref.blend
  Version 279 sub 0 date 2017-08-18 12:53 hash 7b397cd
Read prefs: C:\Users\j\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\config\userpref.blend
read file C:\Users\j\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\config\startup.blend
  Version 279 sub 0 date 2017-08-18 12:53 hash 7b397cd

ordered
 OBPlane
found bundled python: C:\Users\j\Downloads\blender-2.79a-rc-windows64\2.79\python
measureit: Imported multifiles
ED_undo_push: Add Torus

ordered
 OBTorus
 OBPlane
Error: Unrecognized Exception

C:\Users\j\Downloads\blender-2.79a-rc-windows64>

Display:

AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics
Adapter Type	AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9851), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter RAM	1.00 GB 
Installed Drivers	aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,amdxc64.dll
Driver Version	15.201.1301.0
INF File	oem24.inf (ati2mtag_MullinsPA_Mobile section)
Resolution	1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel	32
Driver	c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6463, 660.51 KB (676,360 bytes), 8/1/2015 2:28 AM)

My system

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro  10.0.16299 Build 16299
Model HP 23-q153la
System Type	x64-based PC
Processor	AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics, 2200 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

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