Krita crashes all the time when scrubbing/playing timeline

[animator9000]

Krita crashes about every 5 minutes. It’s terribly hard to get any work done. I’m working on a kind of project I haven’t done before, but Krita has crashed once or twice when doing Render Animation (on a different project).

The crash: The program freezes, with the “this window is not responding” dialouge if I click the X. Waiting does nothing. Cpu at 13% (one core maxed out). krita.log doesn’t show anything; the last line (before ===== \n\n SESSION) is something like “loaded image” or “completed autosave”.

I think I have a rough idea of how to get it to crash:

1. Create animation.
2. Load audio file into krita. Mine is a 10kB .wav file, 50 seconds long.
3. Give the animation like 1000 frames. It’s crashed with just 600, too.
4. Maybe create a keyframe or two? Draw something on them? I’ve never had more than 5 keyframes when it crashes, so it can’t be keyframe overload.
5. Scrub the timeline. I play/pause with my “e” keybind, and I click and drag with mouse on the bar with the little frame numbers. Maybe click on the keyframe.
6. Play around with playing/pausing/jumping until it just crashes. Takes less than 5 minutes for me consistently.

“1000 frames” made me think it’s a memory issue, but 960 * 540 * 1000 is just 500 MB. There’s 12 GB free RAM for Krita to use, according to task manager.
One time when it crashed with 600 frames, I checked task manager, and it said Krita used ~270 MB. 960 * 540 * 600 = 297 MB.

Examples of krita.log:

02 Sep 2024 19:59:07 +0200: Loaded image from application/x-krita. Size: 960 * 540 pixels, 4.16667 dpi. Color model: 8-bit integer/channel RGB/Alpha (sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc). Layers: 4
02 Sep 2024 20:09:30 +0200: Loaded image from application/x-krita. Size: 960 * 540 pixels, 4.16667 dpi. Color model: 8-bit integer/channel RGB/Alpha (sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc). Layers: 4

or

02 Sep 2024 21:12:18 +0200: Completed saving C:/Users/.kra-autosave.kra (mime: application/x-krita). Result: OK. Warning: . Size: 133117

krita version:
Krita Version: 5.2.3 (git 68d178c), Qt version compiled: 5.15.7, loaded: 5.15.7. Process ID: 40108

[sooz]

Do you ever get a RAM warning on the bottom status bar where the canvas dimensions are displayed?

[animator9000]

(attatched image)
The largest value in it says 9 MiB (which seems super low). Task manager says Krita uses 258 MB right now.

[freyalupen]

Could be bug 489146 – Krita hangs while playing an animation with audio and scrubbing at the same time , which is fixed in the nightly builds.

[sooz]

It would be good to look at the memory meter when you’re experiencing trouble.

[AhabGreybeard]

@animator9000 The nightly builds are avaiable via the ‘Nightyly Builds’ links on the main downlaod page: Download | Krita

Try the ‘Krita Plus’ one first because it will be more stable.
The ‘Krita Next’ build has fixes but also new features in development.

For Windows, get the xxx.zip package, not the xxx-dbg.zip package.
Then Extract them anywhere you like and run the link or the executable inside.
They will use the same config/settings and resources as the current installed version.

[animator9000]

That seems like the same issue, yes.

@AhabGreybeard
I’ll do that, thank you.