changing VFB background during RT freezes maya

[seandunderdale]

As it says in the title, if I try to swap the background out of a background layer in Maya 2022 it freezes. V-Ray 5 for Maya, update 1.1

(v5.10.21, revision 30888 from Jul 14 2021)


This seems to have become a problem since a windows update ran over the weekend. It also screwed up my Photoshop and I started getting several crashes a day after maybe getting one Photoshop crash in the last 6 months. I updated Photoshop today and its fine.

[hermit.crab]

Doesn't seem to happen on my end and my Windows seems up to date. Does it happen in every scene?

[seandunderdale]

It doesn't even need to be in RT either it seems. Its happening alot. If I need to try to change my background and update my plate, I need to save my scene first because 75% of the time itll freeze if I try to load in a new plate. Seems to happen after Ive been rendering, so a fresh scene is fine. Ill need to check if it happens with denoiser on or not. I got the feeling the windows update changed something GPU based since pulling a tabbed canvas off in Photoshop made it crash.

[seandunderdale]

to be honest, I should update Maya too, since the show light manipulator has crashed me out so many time too....I keep turning it off in the hot key editor...but somehow it always ends up back on in a new scene, even though I save prefs!

[hermit.crab]

It seems we have such an issue logged, however, it is marked as resolved. Could you reinstall V-Ray and try again?

[seandunderdale]

I did over last weekend for a different issue...my license got frozen after a Maya crash and lost half a days work....reinstalling Vray was one of the things I tried to get my license back.

[hermit.crab]

Have you installed any Maya 2022 updates? Maybe you could try with a stable nightly build as well.

[seandunderdale]

No updates. I cant update anything just yet....mid job and Im sharing assets with people. Ill just have to tread lightly around certain buttons for now.

[seandunderdale]

Arrgg this problem is now making Maya freeze / crash and taking my license with it. So annoying!