Why does Godot 4.0 crash when I open a project?

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I just made the switch from Godot 3.5 to Godot 4.0 and was disappointed to find out that it crashes when I open a new project?
I have an NVIDIA GTX 560 (I get it, it's old), but it used to run perfectly, even with an old graphics card.

Does anyone have a solution?

Godot version 4.0
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If you start Godot from a CMD terminal and add the --verbose command line option, do you see any interesting information logged to the terminal?

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After returning "Orphan StringName: (Random Key)" about 100 times, it says "StringName: 520 unclaimed string names at exit.", and then Godot quits, and nothing happens in command prompt.

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What happens of you start it again from the CMD terminal, but don't use the --verbose switch? Maybe the useful messages are getting lost in the noise added by that switch...

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I found your comment about adding "--rendering-driver opengl3" onto my command prompt and it worked perfectly, opening the project without crashing.
Thank you so much for your help!

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Oh, nice. Glad you got it working. I'll convert the above to an answer to wrap this one up.

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Based on the above discussions, the fix here was to start Godot using the opengl driver via the --rendering-driver opengl3 command line argument.

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