Device loss detected in Present()

[chimerax-bug-report@…]

The following bug report has been submitted:
Platform:        Windows-10-10.0.19043
ChimeraX Version: 1.10.dev202503180004 (2025-03-18 00:04:20 UTC)
Description
Last time you used ChimeraX it crashed.
Please describe steps that led to the crash here.
Windows fatal exception: access violation

Thread 0x00000aa4 (most recent call first):
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\ui\gui.py", line 339 in event_loop
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\core\__main__.py", line 1054 in init
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\core\__main__.py", line 1217 in 
  File "", line 88 in _run_code
  File "", line 198 in _run_module_as_main
Windows fatal exception: access violation

Thread 0x00000aa4 (most recent call first):
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\graphics\opengl.py", line 122 in make_current
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\graphics\opengl.py", line 555 in make_current
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\graphics\view.py", line 127 in _use_opengl
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\graphics\view.py", line 162 in draw
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\core\updateloop.py", line 84 in draw_new_frame
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\core\updateloop.py", line 150 in _redraw_timer_callback
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\ui\gui.py", line 339 in event_loop
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\core\__main__.py", line 1054 in init
  File "C:\Intel\ChimeraX 1.10.dev202503180004\bin\Lib\site-packages\chimerax\core\__main__.py", line 1217 in 
  File "", line 88 in _run_code
  File "", line 198 in _run_module_as_main
===== Log before crash start =====
UCSF ChimeraX version: 1.10.dev202503180004 (2025-03-18)  
© 2016-2025 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.  
How to cite UCSF ChimeraX  

> open C:/Users/NTC/Downloads/5b1a.pdb

5b1a.pdb title:  
Bovine heart cytochrome C oxidase In the fully oxidized state At 1.5 angstrom
resolution [more info...]  
  
Chain information for 5b1a.pdb #1  
---  
Chain | Description | UniProt  
A N | cytochrome C oxidase polypeptide I | COX1_BOVIN 1-514  
B O | cytochrome C oxidase polypeptide II | COX2_BOVIN 1-227  
C P | cytochrome C oxidase polypeptide III | COX3_BOVIN 1-261  
D Q | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 4 isoform 1, mitochondrial | COX41_BOVIN 1-147  
E R | cytochrome C oxidase polypeptide VA | COX5A_BOVIN 1-109  
F S | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 5B, mitochondrial | COX5B_BOVIN 1-98  
G T | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 6A2, mitochondrial | CX6A2_BOVIN 1-85  
H U | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 6B1 | CX6B1_BOVIN 1-85  
I V | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 6C | COX6C_BOVIN 1-73  
J W | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 7A1, mitochondrial | CX7A1_BOVIN 1-59  
K X | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 7B, mitochondrial | COX7B_BOVIN 1-56  
L Y | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 7C, mitochondrial | COX7C_BOVIN 1-47  
M Z | cytochrome C oxidase subunit 8B, mitochondrial | COX8B_BOVIN 1-46  
  
719 atoms have alternate locations. Control/examine alternate locations with
Altloc Explorer [start tool...] or the altlocs command.  

Device loss detected in Present()  


===== Log before crash end =====

Log:
UCSF ChimeraX version: 1.10.dev202503180004 (2025-03-18)  
© 2016-2025 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.  
How to cite UCSF ChimeraX  




OpenGL version: 3.3.0 - Build 30.0.101.2079
OpenGL renderer: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
OpenGL vendor: Intel

Python: 3.11.4
Locale: ar_JO.cp1252
Qt version: PyQt6 6.8.1, Qt 6.8.2
Qt runtime version: 6.8.2
Qt platform: windows

Manufacturer: HP
Model: HP 250 G8 Notebook PC
OS: ‏‏Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (Build 19043)
Memory: 8,317,952,000
MaxProcessMemory: 137,438,953,344
CPU: 8 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
OSLanguage: en-US

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[Eric Pettersen]

Google AI seems to think this indicates a problem with the graphics driver

[Tom Goddard]

It is certainly a problem in the graphics. The traceback shows it is trying to make the ChimeraX opengl context current. I vaguely recall that the OpenGL specification allows the OpenGL context to become invalid and in that case the application is supposed to make a new context and try again. That means loss of all the OpenGL state so it is rather painful to start over. I never saw documentation on when or even whether this can happen on specific operating systems. I could imagine if you are rendering to a display and move ChimeraX to another display driven by a different graphics card it could lose the OpenGL context. In the Intel/AMD days on Mac it miraculously did not lose the OpenGL context but reported the driver has having changed.

At any rate it could be some kind of graphics driver failure that we can't do anything about unless we are willing to put in a lot of code to recreate the OpenGL context. Seems not worth it unless it happens often.

[Tom Goddard]

I am a bit puzzled why we have not seen this "Device loss detected in Present()" error message in the past. My guess is the message comes from Windows but was not being handled by Qt in earlier Qt versions.