Arduino IDE crashes on start

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi,
I just upgraded to version 1.8.3 on windows 7 and now the IDE won't start. I see the splash screen flashing by but then the program crashes. I have Java 8 update 131 installed. I started Arduino debug from the command line and got this error:

Invalid layout of java.lang.Thread at name
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  Internal Error (javaClasses.cpp:126), pid=16040, tid=14196
#  fatal error: Invalid layout of preloaded class
#
# JRE version:  (8.0_31-b13) (build )
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (25.31-b07 mixed mode windows-x86 )
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client vers
ions of Windows
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# C:\Users\Annika\AppData\Local\Temp\\hs_err_pid16040.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp

Can you help me figure out what's wrong?

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There appears to be a good amount of information missing ?

The clue is the "client version of windows" and "Minidumps are not enabled"
This issue has come up a few times in recent months.

Seems the issue you are seeing is sometimes related to Nvidia graphics cards IIRC

A little more digging also turned up This post

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Thanks for the reply and the recommended post. I looked around a bit but didn't really find anything that solved the issue, but I tried reverting to 1.8.2 and it launches. Good enough for now!