Blender 5.0 crashed after GDAL installed

[s1u]

Win 11,
Blender 5.0, python version 3.11.13
Blender GIS-2212
gdal installed via https://github.com/cgohlke/geospatial-wheels/releases/download/v2025.10.25/gdal-3.11.4-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl

Blender crashes when startup, the log as attached.

blender crash log.txt

[gspotapp]

Me too

[Hadeur]

I think i have the same problem, i tried the installation for Blender 5.0.1 and 4.5.5 with gdal-3.11.4-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl and/or gdal-3.11.1-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl.

As soon as i try to test the installation with from osgeo import gdal Blender crashes. Tried this on my work and private Windows 11 machines (so no special security settings).

ExceptionCode : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) Exception Address : 0x00007FFEBE683020 Exception Module : MSVCP140.dll

blender.crash.log.txt

[keviralu]

this version was the one which worked: https://github.com/cgohlke/geospatial-wheels/releases/download/v2024.2.18/GDAL-3.8.4-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl