[trisnet]

Everytime I attempt to search on Kodi, I get "ERROR: Exception caught on main loop. exiting". My laptop is Windows 10. My graphics card is Intel 4000 graphics cards. I have Kodi v16.1 Jarvis. I keep on uninstalling and reinstalling but it has no effect. I have uninstalled without the profiles and addons as well as with them to no prevail. My father has updated my driver software and the problem still persists. My debug log: http://pastebin.com/LcE3zZEj . This problem has been going on since February/ March. I have looked at other threads with the same problem and their solutions doesn't solve my problem. I have no idea what to do.

[BatterPudding]

That's only part of a log, but enough to show a raft of dodgy addons.

To do a true clean install you also need to remove or rename the %APPDATA%\KODI\ folder. (c:\Users\trisnet\AppData\Roaming\KODI)

The broken addons are causing your problems. You won't get help with those here (as per the FAQ) Clear them out and we'll help you with KODI

[t5oriano]

Ok I have the same issue..., please help

The only Kodi that works on my PC is a later version 15.2, if I try to install 16.0 or now 16.1 I get the same error message "ERROR: Exception caught on main. exiting

I tried renaming and deleting %appdata%\kodi and deleting kodi from programs, also tried deleting everything from Regedit with the name Kodi, restart pc then as soon as I reinstall Kodi I get the same pop error message...

Anyone else with this same issue

[User 272336]

The only Kodi that works on my PC is a later version 15.2

You might need to check if your graphics card can support DirectX11, if not stick to 15.2.
Sometimes updated drivers solve the issue, disabling DXVA2 , difficult to tell without a debug log (wiki)

[CrazyFin]

You might need to check if your graphics card can support DirectX11, if not stick to 15.2.
Sometimes updated drivers solve the issue, disabling DXVA2 , difficult to tell without a debug log (wiki)

I can confirm that for me being on Windows 10 x64 PRO with Kodi 16.1 (20160424 release) I am experiencing same problems on most of my 5 Windows-based Kodi-installations.
My crashes happened during channel switching.

On all machines that were crashing with this error message it helped to disable DXVA2 and then restart Kodi again.