Particles crashing Flame on Mac

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Hi all,

I’ve been experiencing repeated crashes when R&Ding particles for a project. Is this a known feature? I’m running 2025.2.2 on a MacStudio M1 Ultra with 128GB RAM and 20 cores. OS is Sequoia 15.5. Storage is SSD on OWC Thunderbay Flex 8.

I’ve made a fresh 1920x1080 ACES 1.1 project and am using a Rec709 colour source as the generator.

I’ve been following @Sinan’ s YT playlist

Mainly looking at the first video. To my mind this shouldn’t be too taxing but the interaction is very slow and Flame crashes repeatedly. Any thoughts much appreciated.

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Hi @rorcharch,

I am usually on the Discord channel. Drop by and let me help you through it.

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Thanks @sinan, so kind of you to spend time discussing this with me.

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In my opinion particles on a Mac are not that reliable. It causes crashes most of the time.

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I recorded all the videos in the above link on my 2017 MBP. Particles are fiddly but you can tame them.
It’s like training a flea circus. You let them go and hope they get there.

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Wait wait ! Come back!
He said flea circus, not “Flee! circus!”

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If y’all figure out a solve, please share it back here!

-Ted

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It was basically that the number of particles generated per frame was too big. I showed some pathways to generate particles that would use a lower number of them.

So it wasn’t a solution to a single problem but getting a better idea of how the particles in Flame work as a system.

I’m usually on Discord, so if anyone has questions about particles ping me there. More than happy to help out.

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