Eeschema not responding when opening Schematicac

[Ben_Riley]

When I go to open a schemtic from a project eeschema window opens but become non responsive and has to be force closed. All other aspects of the program will open. I have tried:
-deleting settings files
-uninstalling and re installing
-uninstalling 5.1.5_3 and installing 5.1.5_2

It is happening with all projects and the projects will load on a different machine running KiCad 5.1.5_3.

Any help would be appreciated.

Vesrion Info
Application: KiCad
Version: (5.1.5)-2, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.71.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.66.0
Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Ben_Riley]

Update, I changed the canvas type in \AppData\Roaming\kicad\eeschema from 1 to 2 and it will now load. I have no idea why this fixed the issue. Is anyone able to provide some insight.

[Seth_h]

canvas_type 1 is OpenGL. If that is not loading on your system, then there may be a driver issue. canvas_type 2 is Cairo, which is software-only so it does not have the same dependencies but it much slower.

[rjmessing]

I have this same issue. I’ve searched for OpenGL drivers and have only found that they are usually bundled with your drivers for video card. If there is a OpenGL standalone driver that can be used to fix this I haven’t found it. I’ve also had this issue with PCBnew.

[SPCornett]

I’m having the same problem, and I’ve looked in my \AppData\Roaming\kicad\ directory for an eeschema file with no luck. What else can I do to make the application run correctly?

[davidsrsb]

Have you tried the canvas type 2 suggestion from a few post above?