Critical: After Effects 2025 and 2026 ship with a broken version of Sentry Native
Affects at least the Windows version, problems primarily show up on NVIDIA(tested on drivers 610.88 and 610.47).
This started with a beta tester for one of my plugins reporting that in AE2025(and not the earlier versions) the plugin occassionally hangs or crashes.
I managed to to replicate this on 25.2.2(I was unable to get the later 2025 versions to run *at all*)
so I went ahead to try and diagnose the issue.
The hang case was odd and a lot of time was spent chasing down red herrings, one of AEs hundreds of threads just seemed to be getting stuck in an exception handler, and some of the attempted fixes just turned it into a crash.
I then went and downloaded the latest version - 26.3.0 and look at that, this one managed to reproduce the crash out of the box.
The crash case turned out to be far more helpful and eventually I tracked both of them down to a stack overflow in nvwgf2umx.dll
Everything I was seeing turned out to map to a known issue https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/issues/1193
The version string suggests the aforementioned AE versions indeed ship 0.7.6. of sentry.dll
To confirm via a quick A/B test, taking the older version of sentry.dll that ships with mochaAE(tested 0.4.14 nad 0.5.4) and replacing the one in the main folder completely fixed the issues for both me and the testers.
