I no longer experience the crash which leads me to believe it was an NVIDIA driver issue; I am using the latest beta drivers (331.40).

Nope, I am not getting a bugsplat message nor any message for that matter. It crashes instantly. Is there a way I can manually log what is happening?

@chris fullmer said:

I would recommend rolling back your video card driver (perhaps to a version that's 6-12 months old).

Unfortunately the oldest driver I can install is 320.18, which was released in May 2013. Any older and the NVIDIA installer says my hardware is not supported. With 320.18, the issue remains.

@chris fullmer said:

Does this crash happen on all models, or just a specific model?

All models. Even starting fresh with a new template and trying to save it will cause a crash. Same with drawing a few lines and attempting to create a component out of them.

I also tried reinstalling SketchUp a few times.

Thanks for the help.

I've encountered what I think to be a very strange crash bug that has no rhyme or reason.

I've only noticed it happening (a) when making a component and clicking create or (b) when saving the sketch (mind you, the sketch does not get saved). SketchUp will crash without hesitation every time I do either of those things. It does not hang or freeze, it just instantly closes. And there are no crash related messages.

If I disable hardware acceleration, the crash no longer occurs. SketchUp kind of sucks without hardware acceleration though.

I tried looking for other people with this same problem to no avail. Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions?

Thanks,
Neil

System Info
SketchUp Make 13.0.4812
OS: Windows 8
CPU: Intel 4770K
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 780
GPU Driver: 326.84
OpenGL Version: 4.4