Does not look different to me.
M1 Max MacOS 14.4 Blender: blender-4.1.0-candidate+v41.1640121a6313
I wonder if it has to do with the BVH building, as it takes a long time and keeps going up and down in percentage. Like for example goes up to 80% drops down to 50% and so on multiple times.
Yes they it is gone in 4.0.
Just thought do you use any special plugins or a base blender install?
Sure is strange that it even crashes on CPU.
Did you try Blender 4.0 or switching 3.6.5 to the OpenGL backend?
Oh you right I was pretty sure I clicked on the correct link earlier but I see the dmg file said x86. Could there have been a wrong link earlier, I see the webpage got updated?
Me neither works fine with 4.0 on MacOS 14.1.1 and M3Pro. No issues with the problem.blend either.
I really wonder if it is the OS version.
Latest beta on my machine at home does not seem to crash either but also 13.2.1 on there. I will test some more and update if it changes or the issue…
I just checked on my work M1 in both versions and cant reproduce it either but I had it at home on my M2 in both versions.
I am wondering now if an addon is to blame.
I had this happen a lot today too was driving me nuts, at first I thought it was only in the 3.5 alpha but 3.4.1 does it too.
Blender completly lock up and have to force quit.