Windows client hanging on splash screen 1.8.0

Well, if you can’t access the status screen, then perhaps look in the CMS logs.

You might need to enable CMS debugging and/or player auditing as well.

If that’s not good enough, you can try this - How to get a Windows Player log for advanced debugging

Please proceed carefully though.
as it will create logs in the specified folder for example
C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Xibo Library\log.txt
You will most likely want separate display profile with the settings as mentioned in that topic.

Unless it’s more of a Windows issue, in which case it could be good to see ram usage etc while the player is ‘frozen’