Nsight System fail to start profiling on win10

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Two things you might try:

1. Update to the latest Nsight Systems and retry (2021.1 currently)
2. Run Nsight Systems as Administrator and retry.

I suggest #2 as I hit a problem a few months back on Win10 where on older version of Nsight Systems would crash after profiling collection (with boost APIs on the stack) unless run as an elevated user. That’s been fixed in more recent versions, but you’re running an older version. See this link for details:

Nsight Systems 2020.5 Crashes When Run as Normal User

Whenever I run the Nsight Systems GUI app as an ordinary user, it typically crashes after a collecting profiling data on an application. This crash occurs after the profiling run, immediately after loading and processing all the samples, but just before displaying the Nsight Graphics GUI showing the collected profiling data). The stack trace is shown below. However, I noticed Friday that if I run the Nsight Systems GUI app as an elevated user, then it does not crash. The Nsight Systems GUI i…