Indeed this is weird.

The forum thread you pointed out ended up being an issue with the older sd card adapter.

Could it be the case here that you're using a quite old USB stick? What was the model?
I'd like to repro, but couldn't so far.

SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16gb
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Flash-Cruzer-Glide-SDCZ60-016G-B35/dp/B007YX9O9O/

Not sure if these are considered "old" or not. When the first one gave the error, I opened a brand new one that was still sealed in packaging.

I had this flash failed, just opened logs though and I suspect this error is being thrown and causing a 'wrong' failure message after flash succeeds:

gui.js:46 {"stack":"Error: Error invoking remote method 'enable-screensaver': No handler registered for 'enable-screensaver'\n at EventEmitter.i.invoke (electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:73:529)","message":"Error invoking remote method 'enable-screensaver': No handler registered for 'enable-screensaver'"}

Error invoking remote method 'enable-screensaver'

Maybe that was fixed by #3882 ? 🤷

Nope @lurch, that started it, but it has no effect on the functionality.

Yeah, when I posted that comment, I suspected it was successful, but it turned out it truly wasn't, so my comment should be taken as a different issue.

I have tried both 1.13.1 and 1.12.7 both with the same issue as @kylebakerio shows above.

Any suggestion on another version that would work?

v1.18.11
running as Admin

still facing the exact same issue on windows 11 and SanDisk cruzer
the flash + verify ends successfully
the screensaver error seems to mark the process as failed

the flashed OS boots and works as expected

gui.js:35 Verifying 1 device, 97% at 18.00 MB/s (total 18.00 MB/s) eta in 2s with 0 failed devices
gui.js:35 Verifying 1 device, 98% at 17.50 MB/s (total 17.50 MB/s) eta in 1s with 0 failed devices
gui.js:35 Verifying 1 device, 100% at 18.30 MB/s (total 18.30 MB/s) eta in 0s with 0 failed devices
gui.js:37 Finish: 1292605440
gui.js:37 Terminating IPC server
gui.js:37 Flash results {results: {…}, cancelled: false, skip: false}cancelled: falseresults: {bytesWritten: 1292605440, devices: {…}, errors: Array(1), sourceMetadata: {…}, averageFlashingSpeed: 5664651.252476028}skip: false[[Prototype]]: Object
gui.js:37 Error: Error invoking remote method 'enable-screensaver': No handler registered for 'enable-screensaver'
    at o.invoke (node:electron/js2c/renderer_init:57:526)
(anonymous) @ gui.js:37
logException @ gui.js:37
(anonymous) @ gui.js:354

I have the same issue on two Windows 11 machines, with both USB and PCIe based SD card writers and multiple SD cards.

Same for me here.
On Win11 with balwna version 18.3