Maya crashes when using xgen and shadows in viewport

[hectorthiel]

I'm following a xgen tutorial and one of the steps is to light up the scene to get a better view of the groom in the viewport but as soon as I try to create a new description (while the shadows and lights are on in the viewport) Maya immediately crashes. I tried not using shadows and it seems to work but as soon as I turn them on it crashes. I have a decent computer (i7, rtx 2070 super and 16 gigs of ram) and I'm using Maya 2022. Is there any way around this? xgen is frustrating enough as it is

[Christoph_Schaedl]

I assume its the same bug as the AO bug. Autodesk is working on it. 

[Anonymous]

this is the solution that worked for me

Cheers 🙂