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Andrew1977
Andrew1977
Inspiring
March 7, 2024
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Turbulent Displace causing crashes after new update

  • March 7, 2024
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Using Turbulent Displace with an animated "Evolution" property crashes After Effects.

 

Using After Effects 24.2.1 in Windows 11. GPU drivers are up to date.

 

I've been using Turbulent Displace for years now to create a jumpy squiggly line effect on text and drawings. Just after the most recent update, it now crashes the app in all but the most simple comps. If a comp has only one or two elements, it seems to work okay, but any comp of complexity (10 or more layers, nested comps, etc.) crashes if Turbulent Displace in introduced in any way (on an adjustment layer or individual layers or on the comp as a whole).

 

I have an Intel i9 CPU, RTX 4080 GPU and 64GB of RAM. Again, been using TD for years in this way and never encountered this. Very easy to replicate, and I've methodically eliminated all other effects and plugins. The crash happens with complete predictability within seconds of applying Turbulent Displace with an animated Evolution parameter.

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    Correct answer Andrew1977

    Update for you! I went ahead and updated my BIOS and have not had a crash since then! I'm still holding my breath as I work but so far that seems to have solved my problem!

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    Andrew1977
    Andrew1977Author
    Inspiring
    March 8, 2024

    were you able to duplicate the problem?

      Andrew1977
      Andrew1977Author
      Inspiring
      March 8, 2024

      I've been using the most up to date drivers, but in troubleshooting I rolled back to the previous version (and previous version of AE) and still get the same crash.

        J
        Community Manager
        jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
        Jenkmeister
        March 8, 2024

        Hae you recently updated your NVIDIA drivers? There is a set of drivers right now causing a number of crashes in AE, PPro and other apps so just wanted to see if that's something that has changed recently for you. 

         

        The crash itself appears to be while trying to fill the text characters in, which is part of the reason I'm asking about the NVIDIA drivers. That fill is done with the GPU. 

          J
          Community Manager
          jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
          Jenkmeister
          March 8, 2024

          Thanks for posting the project. I am able to open it and preview it completely without any crash. However, I do have the crash dump you provided so I'm looking into that to see where the crash is occuring and what is going on. 

            Andrew1977
            Andrew1977Author
            Inspiring
            March 8, 2024

            I just uninstalled EVERYTHING. Reinstalled AE with no plug-ins, no preferences, no settings migrated. Brand new project. Created a single text layer, added a Turbulent Displace, keyframed the Evolution. Created an adjustment layer, added Posterize Time and set it to 12. Started a preview. Crashed within seconds.

              Andrew1977
              Andrew1977Author
              Inspiring
              March 8, 2024

              Seems like maybe Posterize Time is not playing nice with Turbulent Displace? Maybe anything that impacts time or framerate doesn't work with Turbulent Displace anymore???

                Andrew1977
                Andrew1977Author
                Inspiring
                March 8, 2024

                Actually that didn't help. Still crashing within seconds of animating turbulent displace. I've reset preferences, uninstalled all 3rd party plugins and it's still happening. Here's a project file that I can't get to stay open for more than a couple minutes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RU511ARa4-aUpNCavsASv5qY3jwviuYE?usp=drive_link

                  Andrew1977
                  Andrew1977Author
                  Inspiring
                  March 7, 2024

                  Seems I was able to make the crashes less frequent by eliminating Time Remapping in the same comp as Turbulent Displace. It's still crashes here and there, but that seemed to be the main culprit. 

                    J
                    Community Manager
                    jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
                    Jenkmeister
                    March 7, 2024

                    Can you share a project so that we can repro and figure out what's going on? I've tried following the info you have above and am not crashing on 24.2.1. 

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