Baking animation in Control rig freezes the editor, any clues?

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Hello

Every time I try to use Control Rig to trim an animation, the editor just freezes. No error message, no crash to desktop not even a line in the logs as far as I could tell.

Here’s a video of what I’m doing:

I’m totally lost and I don’t know what else to do. I was following this tutorial:

I’ve tried restarting the PC, running as Admin, re-installing UE, installed UE 5.2 preview just in case… and nothing, same outcome. As soon as I click on “Bake Animation Sequence” the editor just freezes in place.

Anyone has had a similar experience or know where could I start troubleshooting it?

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Apparently it’s something that was introduced in 5.1 because I’ve tried just to see what happened with 5.0.3 and it worked without issues.

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Ok, so I had access to another computer and doing the same doesn’t crash there so it’s something specific to my machine. The thing is I’ve already tried fully re-installing the engine. Anyone can give some tips about what I could’ve left behind?

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Alright, after extensive testing I’ve been able to pinpoint it to a NVIDIA driver problem, more precisely, the 531 branch. I’ve rolled back to 528.49 (Feb, 8th) everything works fine.

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Thank you! I rolled back to 531.29 game ready drivers and that worked for me.

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This is not working for me, rolled back the studio drivers version and still freeze trying to bake any animation.

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Same here, any solution?

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UNREAL ENGINE FREEZES WHEN I GO TO EXPORT/BAKE ANIMATION - #26 by MadScientistUA Here is a solution that worked for me!

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Switching to another project with no DX12 on is not a solution. Saying that is as valid as opening maya and animating there.

This is a Sequencer feature that used to work and now is not.

This is frustrating like hell.

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How do I roll back my drivers?