diff --git a/GUI/host/exception.cpp b/GUI/host/exception.cpp
index 9215f9d..4bd8787 100644
--- a/GUI/host/exception.cpp
+++ b/GUI/host/exception.cpp
@@ -22,8 +22,12 @@ namespace
 
 	__declspec(noreturn) void Terminate()
 	{
-		MessageBoxW(NULL, lastError.c_str(), L"Textractor ERROR", MB_ICONERROR);
-		abort();
+		CreateThread(nullptr, 0, [](void* lastError) -> DWORD
+		{
+			MessageBoxW(NULL, (wchar_t*)lastError, L"Textractor ERROR", MB_ICONERROR); // might fail to display if called in main thread and exception was in main event loop
+			abort();
+		}, lastError.data(), 0, nullptr);
+		Sleep(MAXDWORD);
 	}
 
 	LONG WINAPI ExceptionLogger(EXCEPTION_POINTERS* exception)