Zed SDK 5.3 silent crashing on Win11 with Zed2i

Hello. I am basically having the same symptoms as the issue in this topic below, but currently with Zed SDK 5.3: ZED 2i All SDK Applications and ZED Explorer Crashing After a Few Seconds

All tools from the SDK silently crashes without any messages or dialog windows, including Explorer and Diagnostic. Diagnostic crashes silently at 10% with Camera Test stage. When running a basic script that loads the camera with the python wrapper, it shows this error:
[2026-05-12 16:58:15 UTC][ZED][INFO] Logging level INFO
[2026-05-12 16:58:16 UTC][ZED][INFO] Using USB input… Switched to default resolution HD720
[2026-05-12 16:58:16 UTC][ZED][ERROR] [ZED] Camera Open Internal Error: 1892
[2026-05-12 16:58:16 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init] Failed to open camera. Trying to re-open for 5 seconds.

Specs
OS: Windows 11 26200.8246
GPU: RTX 4060 Laptop (Driver version 596.49)
CUDA SDK : 13.0
Camera : ZED2i
SDK version : 5.3

Steps taken: reinstall sdk followed by reboot
When loading up the camera with the Windows Camera app, it shows the images just fine.

Thanks.

Hi @52bloo
Welcome to the StereoLabs community.

This seems to be the same problem with the NVIDIA GPU driver described by other customers.

Can you try to downgrade the driver to a version older than v590+?
This should fix the problem.