Maya 2022.3 Crashes when I start HyperShade

[jen_steinkamp]

Maya 2022.3 Crashes when I open HyperShade. I am using Paint Effects converted to meshes, aiJitter, fluids, and MASH. Fluids has the most impact on the crashing. I can reopen the file if I import it, this allows Maya to start without the Hypershade window. I believe it is the Graph editor section of the Hypershade that causes the crashes. It seems to get overwhelmed with nodes at times. I wish you could use the Hypershade without the graph until you want to use it. There is no way to close the Graph editor.  I am using this command to clear the Graph white the Hypershade is open:

hyperShadePanelGraphCommand("hyperShadePanel1", "clearGraph");

[rkovach]

Maya crashes for me immediately when opening Hypershade, even from a fresh start. Deleting my local userPrefs.mel file and letting Maya re-generate will resolve the problem temporarily.
Somewhere a setting is getting saved into the optionVars in userPrefs.mel that results in the crash.

[rkovach]

My solution to the problem is to run this code after Maya starts up

from maya import mel
mel.eval("showMinorNodes -false;")

[jen_steinkamp]

I will try it!!!