Assets become corrupt after saving project

After rendering and saving a simple scene, some assets become ‘corrupt’. when I try to reopen the project, it crashes at 5%.

I deleted the f2 folder many times, which lets me to open the project. After I update that specific asset, it crashes D5. And that specific asset is not a huge model (flowering herb). Other assets like highly detailed trees don’t let D5 crash.

My specs:
Intel i9-14900KS
RAM 128GB
RTX 5080

What is causing this problem?

Hi @brentnijland

Sorry for the inconvenience. Even small assets (like plants) can crash a project if their package is corrupted or didn’t download/extract properly. Since deleting the f2 folder lets you reopen the file, it’s very likely that this specific “flowering herb” asset is the one causing the problem.

For now, please try removing that asset from the scene before updating it, or replace it with another model and see if the file stays stable. You can also monitor your VRAM usage when loading the project, just to rule out memory spikes. Thanks