Corona Imager Viewer Crashing PC

Hi I’m not sure why, but lately opening up CXR files and Corona Image view crashes my PC, theres no Mouse or Keyboard Control, screen is still on, I have to manually switch it off and reboot. I can’t seem to see any CPU spikes.
RTX 3070
AMD 5090XT
ASUS Prime B550M-A
Memory 128GB
Corona version: 15 (Preview Build Jan 26 2026) It crashed on the previous version too.

Hi, that doesn’t sound like something the Corona Image Editor or other software could do. Sounds like a driver or hardware issue. Is everything else working fine for you, for example rendering with Corona?

I don’t know if its a windows update, theres been no hardware changes.
I’ve updated the latest Nvidia drivers and the latest windows updates and it seems to be okay, will know for sure in a couple days.
Thanks

Sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier.

Okay it happened again, it happens when I use the middle mouse button to zoom in and out.

Could you please:

  1. Contact us here with a sample CXR file that we could use to try to reproduce the crash

  2. Download and install the newest version of MS Visual C++ Redistributables - https://aka.ms/vc14/vc_redist.x64.exe
    Then restart your PC and check if the issue is still there.

Okay the redistributables didn’t work.
it doesn’t seem to matter If I use a CXR file from months ago on now, with enough zooming in and out it crashes.
If its hardware, what would it be? GPU? Powersupply? or CPU?

Ok I check an older 18-09-2025 CXR file and I can zoom till the cows come home.
I hit the contact in your profile, but I don’t have an option for bug reports in the dropdown list, just licensing issues.

It should work this way:

Okay it looks like its the Nvidia denoiser, seems if I change it to Corona denoise it doesn’t crash.

Does the Nvidia denoiser work for you without crashes in 3ds Max? Are you using the newest GPU driver?