Blender 2.9 keeps crashing

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Hi everyone.
Is it just for me or is blender 2.9 constantly crashing? It crashes when I am in the middle of modeling. It closes by itself and I am having to open and redo everything again.

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i’m working in a quite complex scene, 3 character with a lot of constraints and so, trees, dof, many actions in the NLA, 4k PSD-files and son on. No crashes.

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I see. I’ve been working on a pizza model and I was almost towards the end and I saved after doing a wrong move and before I can hit undo, blender crashed and I just ended up losing everything.

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Crashes should never be blamed on the end user, whatever the user did punishing him with a crash and losing work is never an appropriate way to deal with things.

@Vishnu_Menon try running blender from the command prompt when it crashes it may tell you about a crashlog being written that could be used to file a bug on developer.blender.org

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I will try that! Thank you

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I just downgraded to 2.8.5 and now everything seems perfectly fine and normal. No crashes and a smooth workflow.

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May be a corrupted startup file, if you “import settings” from 2.8 when installing 2.9, try file->defaults->reset factory settings.
The new undo system is not realy bulletproof at this time, enable “undo legacy” in preferences experimental.

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It doesn’t crash on startup, it crashes in the middle of me working… Would that happen due to a corrupt startup file?

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Yes it is possible, just try to see if this help.

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Worth checking the Recover → Auto Save. Backs up a lot.

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Okay thank you!

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Hey sorry you had to deal with some useless bullshit replies in this thread.

I’m currently facing the same issue, I feel like this most recent update has come paired with a hell of a lot more crashes. My issues seem to be from looking at the rendered viewport, or even just rendering images.

This has only been happening to me since updating, and I have never had these problems before.

Cheers! Hope we can get more insights.

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Vishnu, I had some crash problems with versions > 2.83.5 which was caused by an addon in my case.

You can find a crash report in your temp directory, which might be extremely helpful to trace down what’s happened.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/troubleshooting/crash.html#:~:text=lightweight%20Window%20Manager.-,Crash%20Log,create%20a%20file%20called%20test.

The manual says this feature is currently disabled under windows. It seems this warning is outdated. I’m using 2.90.0 and windows 10 ent. and a crash file is generated. (tested with blender vanilla / blender e-cycles)

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That’s exactly the problem I faced. Crashes when in the rendered viewport. I gave up and downgraded to 2.8.5 and now everything is working perfectly. Hopefully, the problem gets fixed in the next update and I’ll just install it then.

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what do you mean? 2.8.5 seems not to exist https://download.blender.org/release/

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Oh I’m sorry my bad. 2.83.5

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Hi Mr Stephen! I have your archipack pro add-on. (It’s awesome)

I was working on a project in 2.9 (it crashes often) I updated to 2.9.1to continue with my project. there is improvements but, it crashes in COMMAND Z
I’m getting in love with blender but, this is frustrating.

Using a macbook pro 2019

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Try to enable “Undo Legacy” in preferences->experimental->debbuging.
This setting disable new undo system, so it is slower on undo but probably safer.

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I found it. I’ll check it. Thanks!

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Still crashing in command z not frequently as before but, yes still… :frowning: