Issue with Display Fusion crashing

[linguy11]

It seems that recently I've been noticing an issue whenever Syncovery triggers executing a profile it will cause Display Fusion to crash. Hovering over the scheduler systray icon while it's processing also causes DisplayFusion to crash and the Syncovery systray icon to disappear until reboot. I've tried using the different background scheduler options and tinkering with the systray icon options to no avail.

It's worth noting that even after the Syncovery icon disappears the program still continues to run and when profiles trigger it continues to crash DisplayFusion which then restarts.

I see that this issue started happening when moving from version 11.5.3 to 11.6.3. Unfortunately I can't be more specific than that. I can also confirm that the last DisplayFusion update was in January and the problem has not been around that long.

I've just found the old Syncovery install file and have rolled back to 11.5.3 and the issue has disappeared so there is definitely some type of new conflict introduced in a recent version of Syncovery.

I'm running Windows 10 Pro with DisplayFusion for Steam version 11.1.1

If there is more information that you need please let me know.

[tobias]

Hello,
there haven't been any GUI related changes from 11.5.3 to 11.6.3.

You could try the following setting on the Program Settings dialog, tab sheet "Performance":
-> Run scheduled and background jobs in separate, GUI-less background processes (SyncoveryCL)

Instead of using the Background Scheduler with tray icon, you could use the GUI-less service. You can change the scheduler to run as a service on the Scheduler tab sheet.

See also
https://www.syncovery.com/documentation/faq/service/

[linguy11]

I've tried what you suggested and it hasn't made a different.

I installed the latest version again, switched it to use the scheduler service and enabled running in background the gui-less option and it still causes Display Fusion to crash. Sometimes it runs ok... but other times it doesn't.

And if I specifically manually start a profile, while it's doing the initial processing if I hover over the systray icon it causes the crash of display fusion and once again the syncovery icon no longer shows.

[tobias]

OK, but this is not a Syncovery issue. Please report to the DisplayFusion people.

[linguy11]

Perhaps Display Fusion is the issue. But there's still something else going on considering that the systray icon for Syncovery disappears when that issue happens and still doesn't show even if Display Fusion is closed after the crash happens. Even force closing Syncovery from the task manager and restarting it from that point doesn't bring the icon back into the systray. I mean how could Display Fusion interact with another application causing an error like that when it's closed? Maybe there is some conflict partially involving both programs? Who knows...

In any case, I do appreciate the help you offered thus far but it doesn't really matter anymore as rather than banging my head against a wall with this, I've chosen to just give up on Display Fusion, so problem solved lol.

Much of what I was using it for are now built in functionalities of Windows (per monitor app taskbar, inactive scrolling...etc) and for everything else I found another program (Dual Monitor Tools if anyone is interested).