Since updating to the latest Windows version of Codex Desktop, I’ve started experiencing unexpected crashes that didn’t occur before.
The application will sometimes close by itself while it’s working, without any warning, error message, or obvious trigger. I haven’t been able to identify a consistent way to reproduce the issue—it simply crashes during normal use.
What’s interesting is that I was using an earlier version just two days ago, and I never encountered this behavior. Because of that, I suspect this may have been introduced in a recent update.
I’m posting this here in case other Windows users are seeing the same problem. If multiple people are experiencing similar crashes, I hope the OpenAI team can collect these reports, identify the underlying cause, and include a fix in a future update.
If anyone else has encountered this issue, it would be helpful to know whether you’ve found any pattern or workaround.
I’m experiencing the same problem. Codex crashes frequently. It seems to be correlated with heavy usage. I often have multiple chats in a project working on simultaneous tasks. Without any warning or error message, the entire codex process just quits. There’s nothing in the windows event viewer to indicate what went wrong.
This is on an Intel 18 core cpu with 64g ram running the latest windows 11 and the latest codex release.
I currently have the same or similar issues, updated yesterday and liked the new UI changes but 30 minutes later it just decided to stop working. Opening chats makes it freeze until restart - like no response at all - and it keeps happening after PC restart, reinstall of the new “chat gpt” app and what ever else I could find to try.
System is a 5950x with a 4090 and 64gb ddr4 no storage issues or anything else that could cause this. At least to my knowledge.