# Ragdolls freezing when enabling physics

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ragdolls-freezing-when-enabling-physics/426057>\
**Category:** World Creation\
**Tags:** freeze, ragdoll, not-simulating, unreal-engine, Physics, skeletalmesh, question\
**Created:** [May 27, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ragdolls-freezing-when-enabling-physics/426057 "2018-05-27T14:48:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![HiIAmMoot](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@HiIAmMoot](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/HiIAmMoot)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ragdolls-freezing-when-enabling-physics/426057/1 "2018-05-27T14:48:46Z")

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Issue started with 4.19. I don’t know why this is happening in my character, all the skeletal mesh does is reset the animation and start simulating physics (for all bodies). This didn’t happen with previous UE versions.

![242339-physics.gif](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/3/1/b/31b75e303ca2df1d706719e756176fca8fd2185e.gif)

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_A](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Jeff\_A](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jeff_A)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ragdolls-freezing-when-enabling-physics/426057/2 "2018-05-29T17:31:47Z")

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