@larrydeluca Oh wow, that sounds weird indeed. At most I could think there might be an issue with HDD space, or with RAM, though severe cases of this manifest in reboots not crashes.
We had a user once that sent us a project that had a 4K resolution and 7K frames (yes 7 thousand), and they would still open and work fine on my computer (which at the time was subtly above average); on theirs it wouldn’t even open and crash at export.
I suggest saving a backup copy to avoid corruption. If you keep saving to the same file at some point, if the saving operation is interrupted or if there’s a memory leak, the file will still be corrupted.
Google drive “could” be a problem if this is messing your HDD space, which in turn is also limiting your Virtual memory management since the Windows pagefile.sys file (which is usually on C:/) usually can have up to twice your current RAM.
As you mention there could also be a problem with the %TEMP% folder, but only if there are files big enough to also take away form your HDD. I mentions this because if your C:/ drive has less than a certain % left it will start behaving abnormally, guaranteed (this is from experience; and a lot of it)
I suggest first:
- Use the windows 10 Disk Cleanup Tool to free any files that are not needed (even crash dump files).
- Defrag your operating system. Windows defrag might not be enough, so consider using a specialized tool to defrag your hard drives (I’ve used the open source ultradefrag on windows 10 with moderate success, but i thnk it’s no longer maintained)
- Make sure you’ve followed this guide: [Guide] How to Train Your Pencil2D (Windows) particularly the part about the AV rules.
This is a guide i just found that has some sane advice on cleanup and other file freeing methods, ignore the last one which is promotion on the partition tool. https://www.diskpart.com/windows-10/clean-up-windows-10-4348.html
As for the tablet claim, i’m not sure the drivers could make Pencil2d crash, in that sense it should make Windows itself crash, not just Pencil2D. I mean it’s possible, but I don’t think it’s necessarily what’s happening (though we can’t rule it out i suppose)