thanks Beppe, I will see what I can do

ok,

so, I'm assuming it's fruitless trying to get anything to work on my build

Compute error 2097152:825:
compute device 0: Linking 00696900aaaadec4 shader failed
device 0: failed to initialize render thread 0x7fd946711ab0

OS:
Monterey 12.4 (21F79)
GPU:
AMD Radeon RX 580 4 GB
Processor:
3.6 GHz ...