Hey guys, I’m facing an issue with chaos Anima where all my different types of ‘actors’ work normally, but the 4d actors are sort of invisible. They are there in the scene, you can select them, and that’s the only time when you can see them, but unselected they are just not visible.
I’ve attached a video link at the bottom showing the issue, plus a couple of screenshots of the viewport settings and the visibility of the objects in the scene.
Please let me know if I’m doing something obviously wrong, or if it’s more of a graphics issue.
I am running an amd rx9070xt with the latest drivers
Hello Pablo,
This issue could be caused by having installed old GPU drivers on your machine so, please, make sure that you are using updated GPU drivers. If you are using Nvidia GPUs, notice that you need to use the drivers downloaded from the official Nvida website because the ones provided by Microsoft Update do not include the required CUDA libraries.
If that does not solve the problem or now is not a good time to update your GPU drivers, you can also switch the “Video decoding device” parameter to CPU in the Anima Preferences dialog.
You can get to the Preferences from the Edit menu inside the Anima Designer application:
- Chaos Anima 6: Menu Edit > Preferences
If you are having problems starting Anima, you can also try to start it in Safe Mode, using the shortcut available in the Chaos Anima section of the Windows Start menu:
- Windows Start > Chaos Anima 6 > Chaos Anima - Safe Mode
Both ways will open the following dialog, where you can change the video decoding setup:
- Anima Preferences
Notice that using the CPU for video decoding, the performance and responsiveness of the Anima Designer viewport might not be as good as when using the GPU, especially when simulating scenes with multiple 4D models. That said, the performance in the plugins will be exactly the same.
Please try it and let me know if any of those solutions solve the problem.
Hi there,
We have the same issues. Some characters render some only as ghosts. They cast shadow and get highlighted yellow as seen in the op.
I tested default and safe mode both in GPU and CPU mode - no success.
Anima 6.3.0
GPU Drivers tested:
Studio 591.74 (jan 5th,2026)
Studio 591.44 (dec 4th,2025)
System:
Windows 11 Pro 24H2
RTX 4090
i9-13900K
Hi Maximilian,
As you already tried the proposed solutions and that did not work for you, we will need to take a closer look at what is happening exactly in your device by reviewing your Anima logs.
Please open a support request in the Help Center and send us the Anima logs there. You can find the Anima logs in the following folder:
- "%localappdata%\Chaos\Anima\System\logs"
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.