Starting in pilot view crashes, grey screen

I’m quite new to psychopy, but had my experiment working in the pilot a week earlier. now, whenever I try to run my study, the screen goes grey and crashes until I force quit it. it doesn’t work again until i restart my laptop, and it stops working after I run it a couple times again.

I thought it might be an issue with my image paths, but even when I add just a welcomescreen this occurs. (I do have multiple other issues with my image paths but that’s irrelevant for the moment)

I’ve allowed psychopy to access input keyboard and accessibility in privacy and settings

macOS sonoma 14.5
psychopy v 2024.2.4

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/psychopy/iohub/start_iohub_process.py”, line 56, in run
s.udpService.start()
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/gevent/baseserver.py”, line 336, in start
self.init_socket()
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/gevent/server.py”, line 229, in init_socket
self.socket = self.get_listener(self.address, self.family)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/gevent/server.py”, line 239, in get_listener
return _udp_socket(address, reuse_addr=cls.reuse_addr, family=family)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/gevent/server.py”, line 284, in _udp_socket
sock.bind(address)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/gevent/_socketcommon.py”, line 543, in bind
return self._sock.bind(address)
OSError: [Errno 48] Address already in use: (‘’, 9036)
############### Experiment ended with exit code -15 [pid:33970] ################

any help would be greatly appreciated!