Unable to start ComfyUI Desktop 0.9.3 - Troubleshooting shows no issues

[2026-05-29 08:32:15.311] [info] Adding extra search path custom_nodes C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\custom_nodes
Adding extra search path download_model_base C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\models

[2026-05-29 08:32:15.312] [info] Adding extra search path custom_nodes C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\custom_nodes
Setting output directory to: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\output
Setting input directory to: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\input
Setting user directory to: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\user

[2026-05-29 08:32:16.754] [info] [START] Security scan
[DONE] Security scan
** ComfyUI startup time: 2026-05-29 08:32:16.752

2026-05-29 08:32:16.755\] \[info

** Platform: Windows
** Python version: 3.12.11 (main, Aug 18 2025, 19:17:54) [MSC v.1944 64 bit (AMD64)]
** Python executable: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Scripts\python.exe
** ComfyUI Path: C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI
** ComfyUI Base Folder Path: C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI
** User directory: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\user
** ComfyUI-Manager config path: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\user__manager\config.ini
** Log path: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI\user\comfyui.log

[2026-05-29 08:32:17.911] [info] [ComfyUI-Manager] Skipped fixing the ‘comfyui-frontend-package’ dependency because the ComfyUI is outdated.

[2026-05-29 08:32:17.912] [info] [PRE] ComfyUI-Manager

[2026-05-29 08:32:18.429] [error] C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torch\cuda_init_.py:63: FutureWarning: The pynvml package is deprecated. Please install nvidia-ml-py instead. If you did not install pynvml directly, please report this to the maintainers of the package that installed pynvml for you.
import pynvml # type: ignore[import]

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.017] [info] Found comfy_kitchen backend eager: {‘available’: True, ‘disabled’: False, ‘unavailable_reason’: None, ‘capabilities’: [‘apply_rope’, ‘apply_rope1’, ‘dequantize_mxfp8’, ‘dequantize_nvfp4’, ‘dequantize_per_tensor_fp8’, ‘quantize_mxfp8’, ‘quantize_nvfp4’, ‘quantize_per_tensor_fp8’, ‘scaled_mm_mxfp8’, ‘scaled_mm_nvfp4’]}

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.018] [info] Found comfy_kitchen backend cuda: {‘available’: True, ‘disabled’: False, ‘unavailable_reason’: None, ‘capabilities’: [‘apply_rope’, ‘apply_rope1’, ‘dequantize_nvfp4’, ‘dequantize_per_tensor_fp8’, ‘quantize_mxfp8’, ‘quantize_nvfp4’, ‘quantize_per_tensor_fp8’, ‘scaled_mm_nvfp4’]}
Found comfy_kitchen backend triton: {‘available’: False, ‘disabled’: True, ‘unavailable_reason’: “ImportError: No module named ‘triton’”, ‘capabilities’: }

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.022] [info] Checkpoint files will always be loaded safely.

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.118] [info] Total VRAM 24564 MB, total RAM 130262 MB

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.119] [info] pytorch version: 2.9.1+cu130
Set vram state to: NORMAL_VRAM
Device: cuda:0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 : cudaMallocAsync

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.134] [info] Using async weight offloading with 2 streams

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.135] [info] Enabled pinned memory 52104.0

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.138] [info] working around nvidia conv3d memory bug.

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.304] [info] Using pytorch attention

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.317] [error] Windows fatal exception: code 0xc0000139

Stack (most recent call first):
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.12.11-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\ctypes_init_.py”, line 379 in init
File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torch_ops.py”, line 1488 in load_library
File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio_extension\utils.py”, line 56 in load_lib
File "C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio_extension_init
.py", line 30 in
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 999 in exec_module
File “”, line 935 in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 1331 in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "
[2026-05-29 08:32:20.318] [error] “, line 1360 in _find_and_load
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 1415 in handle_fromlist
File "C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio_init
.py”, line 7 in
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 999 in exec_module
File “”, line 935 in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 1331 in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 1360 in _find_and_load
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\comfy\ldm\lightricks\vae\audio_vae.py”, line 5 in
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 999 in exec_module
File “”, line 935 in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 1331 in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 1360 in _find_and_load
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\comfy\sd.py”, line 15 in
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 999 in exec_module
File “”, line 935 in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 1331 in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 1360 in _find_and_load
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\latent_preview.py”, line 5 in
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 999 in exec_module
File “”, line 935 in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 1331 in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 1360 in _find_and_load
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\execution.py”, line 21 in
File “”, line 488 in _call_with_frames_removed
File “”, line 999 in exec_module
File “”, line 935 in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 1331 in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 1360 in *find_and_load
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\main.py”, line 206 in
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torch_ops.py”, line 1488, in load_library
ctypes.CDLL(path)

2026-05-29 08:32:20.319\] \[error

File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.12.11-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\ctypes_init*.py”, line 379, in init
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
[2026-05-29 08:32:20.319] [error] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OSError: [WinError 127] The specified procedure could not be found

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.320] [error] File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\main.py”, line 206, in
import execution
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\execution.py”, line 21, in
from latent_preview import set_preview_method

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.320] [error] File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\latent_preview.py”, line 5, in
from comfy.sd import VAE
File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\comfy\sd.py”, line 15, in
import comfy.ldm.lightricks.vae.audio_vae

2026-05-29 08:32:20.321\] \[error

File “C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Local\Programs\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\comfy\ldm\lightricks\vae\audio_vae.py”, line 5, in
import torchaudio
File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio_init_.py”, line 7, in
from . import _extension # noqa # usort: skip

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.321] [error] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[2026-05-29 08:32:20.322] [error] ^^^
File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio_extension_init_.py”, line 30, in
_IS_TORCHAUDIO_EXT_AVAILABLE = _load_lib(“_torchaudio”)

2026-05-29 08:32:20.323\] \[error

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.323] [error] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.324] [error] File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio_extension\utils.py”, line 56, in _load_lib
torch.ops.load_library(paths[0])
File “C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torch_ops.py”, line 1490, in load_library

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.324] [error] raise OSError(f"Could not load this library: {path}") from e
OSError: Could not load this library: C:\Users\Darren\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\torchaudio\lib_torchaudio.pyd

[2026-05-29 08:32:20.761] [error] [W529 08:32:20.000000000 AllocatorConfig.cpp:28] Warning: PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF is deprecated, use PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF instead (function operator ())