Hey Slavq,
I opened up your project and gave it a test. The freeze you are experiencing is a GPU limitation. When I set the instance count to 15,000, I still get a decent FPS and nothing freezes. What you are trying to do is very GPU intensive as each one of those instances uses a dynamic shadow and dynamic occlusion queries.
What this means is that for each instance, it is attempting to occlude others behind it, in order to cull based off of the view angle and frustum. In order for it to know how to do this, it has to run a query to check and see if the culling is valid for any given instance. Therefore, the more instances you have, the more queries and dynamic shadows you have, and the more expensive it becomes to render on the GPU.
In order to prove this, you can use the console commands ‘stat initviews’ and ‘stat unit’. Below is an example of what it looks like when I crank up the instance count to 150,000 and observe the differences between that stats displayed on screen.
I also experiencing the freeze when clicking on the Component, but that is because it is attempting to populate the instance array after entering the value. It is going to take longer for the array to populate the larger the number.
Instance Count - 7,777
Instance Count - 150,000
Let me know if you have further questions or need additional assistance.
Thank you,