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The Windows ROCm release archives bundle the core runtime DLLs (amd_comgr.dll, amdhip64_7.dll, rocm_kpack.dll) together with sd-cli.exe, sd-server.exe and stable-diffusion.dll, but stable-diffusion.dll statically imports hipblas.dll and libhipblaslt.dll, which in turn pull in rocblas.dll, rocsolver.dll and the rest of the hipBLAS chain. Those DLLs, plus the rocblas\ and hipblaslt\ data directories, are not present in the archive.

In a shell where the ROCm SDK bin directories are not on PATH, the process dies at load time with exit code 0xC0000135 (STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND) and zero output — easy to misread as an inference crash, a GPU problem, or an illegal-instruction fault. The failure is independent of generation options such as --audio-vae: the same binary succeeds with those options once PATH is set.

This adds a troubleshooting section documenting:

• the symptom (immediate exit 0xC0000135, no stdout);
• the cause (hipBLAS runtime dependencies not on PATH);
• the fix (prepend the ROCm SDK bin directories to PATH, with the Python site-packages layout called out as a common source of the DLLs);
• why copying individual DLLs is not enough (rocblas.dll and libhipblaslt.dll need their sibling data directories);
• a one-line verification (sd-cli.exe --version exits 0);
• how to distinguish 0xC000001D (STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION).

Repro data (Windows 11, RX 7900 XTX gfx1100, master-1104-5dcfa79 win-rocm-10.1.0-x64 prebuilt, same binary and generation parameters; only the environment differs):

• bare shell, no SDK bin on PATH: rc=0xC0000135, 0.0s, zero output;
• with _rocm_sdk_libraries\bin and _rocm_sdk_core\bin on PATH: rc=0, full generation including the audio VAE (output audio truncate: 29600 -> 29333 samples, 22 frames @ 24 fps);
• sd-cli.exe --version reproduces the same split without running inference.

No code changes; a single new section in docs/troubleshooting.md.

Related: ROCm/TheRock#3740, a similar Windows runtime packaging gap on the ROCm side.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added Windows troubleshooting guidance for ROCm executables that fail to start with error 0xC0000135, including how missing HIP runtime DLLs and ROCm SDK bin directories in PATH can affect startup.
  • Documented a version-command check to verify the setup and steps for checking DLL locations and inspecting the dependency chain if the failure persists.

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Walkthrough

The troubleshooting guide adds Windows-specific steps for diagnosing ROCm prebuilt startup failures with error code 0xC0000135. It documents potential missing HIP runtime DLLs, adding ROCm SDK bin directories to PATH, checking the version command, and inspecting DLL dependencies if the failure persists.

Changes: Windows ROCm troubleshooting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Diagnose and verify ROCm DLL loading docs/troubleshooting.md	Documents the 0xC0000135 startup failure, potential missing HIP runtime DLLs, ROCm SDK bin directories to add to PATH, a version-command check, and DLL dependency inspection guidance.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: leejet

Merge Risk: Low · up to edbc8

This is a documentation-only change. The new Windows ROCm troubleshooting section could add a note on how to get a compatible SDK, and its Python wheel path may not match every wheel layout. Neither point blocks merging.

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- Line 89: Update the `sd-cli.exe --version` troubleshooting command to display
PowerShell’s `$LASTEXITCODE` in hexadecimal immediately after execution, so
users can distinguish native exit codes even when the process produces no
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- Around line 93-94: Update the troubleshooting guidance around `dumpbin
/dependents sd-cli.exe` to clarify that it lists only the specified image’s
direct imports, so it may not reveal missing transitive dependencies such as
`hipblas.dll`. Direct users to inspect the DLL dependency chain, including
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Explain how to obtain a matching SDK.

If the user has only the prebuilt archive, these SDK directories do not exist. The fix does not say how to install the missing libraries or select a compatible version. Add installation guidance or a link, and tell users to match the archive’s ROCm version. The release workflow identifies that version in the archive name. (github.com)

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Update the ROCm troubleshooting guidance to explain how users with only the prebuilt archive can obtain the missing SDK libraries, including an appropriate installation reference, and instruct them to use a ROCm version matching the version identified in the archive name. Preserve the existing PATH guidance.

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