Reopening begins the same process, and yup, keep waiting. I’ve been working with visual studio code for years, and i know. After having worked with hundreds of developers to diagnose their terminal launch failures, the vs code team put together this article with the advice and troubleshooting tips that have helped.
In my case the issue was the last update (1.97.0) and the solution was to disable gpu acceleration. Is your visual studio code freezing or showing the window is not responding error? Whether it’s your first install or it stopped working suddenly, follow the steps.
This can help if there are permission issues preventing it from opening. This seems to be a problem caused due to the recent mcafee av update. How to fix visual studio code not running (new update 2025) in this new update 2025, i’ll show you the easiest way to fix visual studio code not running on your computer. Instead of using your cpu for rendering, vs code tries to offload some tasks to the gpu, but if there’s a driver issue, hardware limitation, or a bug, the terminal may become.
What’s causing your vs code window to terminate unexpectedly and which simple fix actually works? In this post, we’ll walk through all the working fixes to get vs code running again on windows 11. You can do this by either starting vscode from the command line with gpu.