Alec wrote:Could it be something to do with writing to the configuration file(s)?
Since I cannot reproduce the problem it is unclear to me what's the root cause of it.
My only theory so far is that somehow in a process of applying additional changes on top of early access version you ended up with weird combination that doesn't work for some reason.... Well, a second theory is that you have broken config that somehow causes GD to crash.
Could you try this version, it is a full GoldenDict, with everything inside. Just extract it somewhere, enter the GoldenDict folder, and create
portable folder inside. That way you'll have a standalone portable installation to test, with all the configs contained inside that portable directory.
Give a run and see if the problem exists. I used exactly this version on various Windows PCs and on all of them it worked.
Download:
http://rghost.ru/42945401If this GD version works with the newly-created config file, try to copy your own config from your main installation to this test version. That way we'll check what's the cause, the actual GD version or your configuration file.