Davinci Resolve cannot render anything at all in any way

midvightmirage · December 24, 2025, 9:19pm

Davinci Resolve Processing Broken

opened 11:53PM - 23 Dec 25 UTC

bug help wanted

### Description ```markdown DaVinci Resolve 20.2.3 crashes whenever I try to do… anything that requires GPU processing. The video preview shows a grey screen, loading saved projects freezes and crashes the program, exporting renders partially freezes weirdly and makes the UI unresponsive, and it crashes when it tries to render a preview of a text thing I try to place. The error log shows: "DVIP Exception: OpenCL Context Manager failed to create context", along with "Failed to initialize OpenCL board manager for 'AMD Radeon RX 7700S'" and "Failed to initialize OpenGL texture pool, no valid contexts available." I used to get an "Unsupported GPU Processing Mode" error because my GPU wasn't detected at all. I tried adding mesa.opencl to my nixpkgs config, setting the environment variable RUSTICL_ENABLE = "radeonsi" in my home-manager configuration, and adding amdgpu to my services.xserver.videoDrivers. My integrated and dedicated GPUs now appear both in Preferences and the "Unsupported GPU Processing Mode" error is gone, but still is incapable of processing anything. ``` ### Priority High ### Affected Package davinci-resolve ### Status Need Help ### Steps to Reproduce ```markdown 1.Launch DaVinci Resolve 2.Observe startup logs for OpenCL context initialization failures 3.Check Preferences > System > Hardware - GPU is there 4.Attempt to do anything that involves video processing 5.Freeze and crash ``` ### Behavior ```markdown -Video Preview is grey and does not display any content -Loading a saved project freezes and crashes Davinci Resolve -Attempting to export a render partially freezes and crashes Davinci Resolve and makes the UI not respond -Clicking and dragging around the element choosing thing (for example text renderers) sometimes freezes and crashes Davinci Resolve DVIP Exception: OpenCL Context Manager failed to create context. - API: OpenCL Failed to initialize OpenCL board manager for "AMD Radeon RX 7700S" Failed to initialize board manager for gpu:9625c288.7b092bf5. Failed to initialize OpenGL texture pool, no valid contexts available. ``` ### Attempts Made ```markdown (When it used to not see my iGPU and dGPU at all and I got told I have a Unsupported GPU Processing Mode) -Add mesa.opencl package -Add environment variable RUSTICL_ENABLE = "radeonsi" (After it started being shown in the GUI as selectable and after the Unsupported GPU Processing Mode went away) -Add services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "amdgpu" ] ``` ### Additional Notes ```markdown - GPU Model: [AMD RX 7700 S] - Driver Version: [Latest] - DaVinci Resolve Version: [20.2.3] - OpenCL drivers: [Installed] ``` ### Attach Logs [resolve_graphics_log.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/24319778/resolve_graphics_log.txt) [ResolveDebug.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/24319779/ResolveDebug.txt)

I have been trying forever I am in agony I am sorry if I am doing this wrong I just need help