Did you notice there is a start up dialog box pops up when you first open GstarCAD software. It will make them aware to select a template before actually start to draw. Startup system variable toggles on/off the Startup dialog box to help users to setup drawing templates settings. Using this dialog box is safer.

You can set this startup dialog box to open every time when you start GstarCAD, Just type STARTUP [enter] then type 1 as new value then [enter]. You can also choose not to open new file or dialog box. You can set STARTUP system variable to 0.