Blender 3.0 hangs forever with the Elle_animation demo file

Hi, I’m trying to load the Ellie_animation.blend official demo file, but on all my systems, it just asks to enable the Python scripts and hangs indefinitely before I can even answer. Same on Windows 10 and Monterey 12.0.1, i9 10850k with 64 GB RAM. In fact Blender 3.0 hangs and pauses a LOT, even with old user profiles completely erased and starting anew.

Anyone else with a rocky first experience? Thanks.

Same here with:
Windows 10
16GB of RAM
Ryzen 5 3500
Radeon RX 5500XT

and enable PhytonScripts and save makes no difference?!

No difference what so ever. Initially, I thought it’s arm related bug, but it happens on the Intel mac build as well.

Still unable to open this on ANY system (Mac/Windows/Linux) - just freezes/hangs indefinitely upon opening. Probably some sort of regional-related bug?

Still unable to open it, even with the 3.0.1 RC version, on any of my systems. Any ideas?

Maybe downloading the blenderfile again, there are now more from SpriteFright, these
also not loading?

The included Pose Library plugin needs to be enabled and by the way did you also install cloudrig for riggify?

Same problem. Blender 3.1.2 freezes when the file is opened. (Intel CPU and Intel UHD Graphics (integrated graphics)). Fresh user profile, just enabled Rigify, the Pose Library was already enabled. Then installed the CloudRig feature set from above.

It looks like the shader freezes Blender or just takes forever to compile.

I’ve appended the CH-Ellie.pose collection to a new file and used the downloaded file as an asset file. This works fine in Solid View and for a Cycles render. But Material Preview mode and Eevee render result in a freeze.

The earring material (appended to a new file) takes several seconds to compile. The skin shader takes over a minute. Maybe we have to be more patient and wait longer?

I’m also having this issue whenever I switch to Material Preview

Same here. macOS Catalina mbp 15 2018 Blender 3.4.1. Ellie hangs forever