v2026.924.302 — Playto closing right after launch or on model switch — Playto: Learn Languages Through Games Steam update #7516332

This update fixes a crash that closed Playto about a second after launch on some PCs, and the same crash when switching the translation model. It also...

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Playto: Learn Languages Through Games (4603950)
Event type
patch note
Published
23 September 2026 - 16:48:14 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
This update fixes a crash that closed Playto about a second after launch on some PCs, and the same crash when switching the translation model. It also makes relaunching after closing to the tray behave as expected. If Playto or Playto Lite stopped opening for you this week, this is the fix. Fixed Playto closed right after launch — On some PCs, a window appeared for about a second and then disappeared, with Windows logging a stack-overflow error in playto.exe. Playto's main thread was started with too little reserved stack, and a recent update to the WebView2 (Edge) runtime left even less of it free. Playto now reserves eight times as much, so this no longer happens. Crash when switching the translation model — Changing from Hy-MT2 to the Gemma dictionary model could close Playto the same way. Same cause, same fix. Relaunch after closing to the tray — Closing the window with × keeps Playt...

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