Studio hangs after stopping Play Solo; UI becomes unresponsive, requiring force close

Issue:
Roblox Studio intermittently hangs and becomes unresponsive after stopping Play Solo. The UI freezes in a semi-functional state without triggering a crash dialog, and the only way to recover is by force-quitting through Task Manager.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open any place (e.g., the one I am working in, see private content for info).
  2. Press Play Solo.
  3. Interact briefly or wait a moment.
  4. Press Stop.

Occasionally, Studio will hang:

  • UI becomes unresponsive.
  • Resizing Studio causes graphical glitches.
  • A “Save Changes?” prompt may appear when trying to quit, but you can’t interact with it.

Force close via Task Manager is required. This issue has occurred multiple times within the same session. It can’t be reproduced back-to-back. This does not present as a Windows “Not Responding” error, but input is blocked and Studio does not recover.

Beta Features:

  • Acoustic Simulation

System Information

OS

  • OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
  • Version: 10.0.19045 Build 19045

CPU

  • Model: Intel Core i5-10400 @ 2.90 GHz
  • Cores/Threads: 6 cores / 12 threads
  • Base Speed: 2.90 GHz (up to ~3.9 GHz under load)
  • Virtualization: Enabled

Memory

  • Total RAM: 32 GB DDR4
  • Speed: 2133 MHz
  • Slots Used: 4 of 4

GPU

  • Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
  • Driver Version: 32.0.15.7261 (2025-02-25)
  • Dedicated GPU Memory: 12 GB
  • Shared GPU Memory: 16 GB
  • DirectX Version: 12 (FL 12.1)

Impact:
This makes it a bit frustrating and time-consuming to use Play Solo reliably in Studio. When it happens, the session must be terminated forcefully and I have to rely on auto-recovery files to continue my workflow.

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You mention this happening on “any place” - does that include just a fresh template (baseplate, etc)? Or any one of the places you happen to be working on but not other places. Best is to repro on something standard like baseplate if possible - that eliminates anything in your scripts as the culprit.

The next is beta features, which it looks like you only have one. I would disable the audio simulation and see if it still repros.

After that we have plugins, which can cause hangs when you tear them down. And easy check here is to disable both check boxes under the Studio Settings->Studio->Test section, and disallow both user and built in plugins during test mode.

Also a log may help track down the culprit as well.

I have an issue pretty much identical to this, as you saw this morning, and for me it happens on any experience- including new ones.
The only difference is the issue occurs when I START the play test. It remains as seen in the video like this forever, failing to render.

https://gyazo.com/007e2f794842e5ea614d13b6f1c13c23

Are you using any plugins? I disabled all the plugins I had per @butterthebig’s suggestion and it stopped happening. Though I’m still not 100% sure if that was the root cause because I enabled them all again and can’t seem to get Studio to hang anymore.

If I run into it again I’ll send over my log files but in the mean time it might be worth trying?

Heyo, ran into this issue again. I’ll send you a DM with the logs in case there’s anything useful.

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I keep running into this problem REPEATEDLY in different place files.

Studio becomes unresponsive, can’t click anything and have to force close and open an autosave file.
Note that studio isn’t completely frozen, I can still see my cursor blinking in the script editor.

I’m having the same issue, even though i have plugins disabled on play test. I’ve already reinstalled Studio and it didn’t seem to help. I’ll try to disable beta features to see if it will stop the bug

It seems to have resolved. Not sure tho