I confirm this is a problem for many. Will they ever solve it? It started recently (probably 2.7 and onwards for me) but now, it is absolutely impossible to work with. CTD with no warning or message reported after 1 - 5 minutes:
Well… It seems I fixed it myself. Actually not really a fix:
I installed the latest BL Studio (2.8.2.61) to a new directory; I didn’t go with the default one offered by the installer but selected my own (i.e. BL Studio fix attempt)
How this fixes anything? It actually doesn’t but it mitigates the issue that caused it, as it seems.
It also offered me to re-allow BL through the firewall (if that was the problem, I am going to shoot myself), so yeah, check your FW routing. However, a proper fix would include a failsafe for such cases, or if network plugin doesn’t respond for some other reason - certainly not CTD.
Before you accuse me of being lazy and not cleaning ABSOLUTELY everything I could clean, including the %APPDATA%\BambuStudio\user, deleting the network-plugin.dll, deleting EVERYTHING, I have to disappoint you and say I did all of it - and more - I had an AI guiding me which hole to weed, what rock to turn, etc. Nothing helped and this was my own last attempt, out of desperation, not even considered by AI.
It may fix your issues, too. It might not. I am using the same folder, the same Windows, the same registry, for ages. So, maybe in my case, it was just full of corrupted data. In your case, it may be something else. I only have this wretched exception code: c0000005 - same as in other threads - and this fixed it for me, at least…