Zed not running

[fowl-dev]

Summary

zed is not opening

Steps to trigger the problem:
1.Locate zed.exe
2.run it

Actual Behavior: loading for some time then not opening. its not crashing or executing. nothing is happening

Expected Behavior: should open zed windows

Zed Version and System Specs

cannot get zed info
my specs are
intel i3 10th gen
16 gb ram
windows 10
gt 710

If applicable, attach your ~/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log file to this issue.

Zed.log

[CharlesChen0823]

running in powershell with .\target\debug\zed.exe, will printout something, could you paste this information here.

[psynyde]

I installed zed from the scoop repo but I think we're probably facing the same issue here.

[not-a-cowfr]

try downloading via msys2

pacman -Sy pacman

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-zed

you can use whatever package prefix you like, this is just what i use

[aayha]

running in powershell with .\target\debug\zed.exe, will printout something, could you paste this information here.

My path is C:\Users\ME\scoop\apps\zed\0.187.8\zed.exe
So I have no "debug" folder.
I have the bare skills to install scoop to run the command to install zed, but now I'm stuck with a software that just don't work, and I don't know why.

Could someone please alaborate about the reason?

[CharlesChen0823]

running in powershell with .\target\debug\zed.exe, will printout something, could you paste this information here.

My path is C:\Users\ME\scoop\apps\zed\0.187.8\zed.exe So I have no "debug" folder. I have the bare skills to install scoop to run the command to install zed, but now I'm stuck with a software that just don't work, and I don't know why.

Could someone please alaborate about the reason?

try this zed --foreground

[ritchielrez]

I am also having the same problem. I tried the vulkan version, but because my iGPU does not support it, it does not work. Tried installing the opengl from scoop, it still does not open any zed window. Here is my log:

2025-06-07T11:44:28-04:00 INFO  [zed] ========== starting zed ==========
2025-06-07T11:44:28-04:00 INFO  [gpui::platform::windows::direct_write] Use Segoe UI as UI font.