Since H20.5 using the labs map baker and Simple baker are crashing houdini without crashlog.
In some cases the pc shuts down after pressing render.
Baking the same thing in H19.5 works as intended.
This has been logged by sideFX as a bug
but I was wondering if anybody else has encountered these strange crashing behaviors in H20.5.

CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700KF @ 3.60GHz
GPU: RTX 3080 from Gigabyte
RAM: DDR4 64gb
System type: 64-bit

I'm having the same issue. It hasn't shut down my PC yet, but Houdini crashes every time I bake. Would love to know if anybody finds a workaround.

CPU - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
GPU - RTX 3090 Asus TUF
RAM: 96gb DDR4
OS: Windows 10 Pro

Same thing here.

In my environment, with the release of Houdini 20.5.410 a few days ago, the issue of crashing after rendering with Labs Map Baker is gone! I’m relieved.

In my environment, the crash stopped occurring after I switched the renderer from Vulkan to OpenGL in the Preferences.