The Codex app on Windows is absolutely garbage.

Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened May 12, 2026 by s7monk Closed May 20, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.50631421

What subscription do you have?

pro

What platform is your computer?

win11

What issue are you seeing?

The Codex app on Windows keeps freezing inexplicably, displaying "Not Responding," and I have to close and restart CodeX to fix it. This problem happens so frequently that it's almost unusable. I've seen some people say that this is because too many images are being sent, and the app needs to load all the images each time. If that's the case, then the CodeX app is just awful.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

The Codex app on Windows keeps freezing inexplicably, displaying "Not Responding," and I have to close and restart CodeX to fix it. This problem happens so frequently that it's almost unusable. I've seen some people say that this is because too many images are being sent, and the app needs to load all the images each time. If that's the case, then the CodeX app is just awful.

What is the expected behavior?

Don't keep freezing for no reason!

Additional information

There is no issue with the computer's performance. My computer has an i9 CPU, 128GB of RAM, and runs Windows 11.

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7 Comments

TarantelTM · 2 months ago

Since last Update of Codex App it spams git commands a lot, so i have to kill codex if im done in current session or it eats my cpu.
No idea why that happen in latest version.
Maybe u got the same problem ?

etraut-openai contributor · 2 months ago

We think we understand the problem. Should be fixed in the next release.

zzxyy123 · 2 months ago

So when can it solved ,the reconnecting problem exist for weeks

s7monk · 2 months ago
We think we understand the problem. Should be fixed in the next release.

When will it be fixed? It's basically unusable now; it freezes whenever there's an image.

huqpho · 2 months ago

+1

hemantjindal · 2 months ago

+1

Relism · 1 month ago

+1