So, I searched for a similar issue but couldn't find one. Maybe I'm trying to do something the program just doesn't like in general...thus why I'm here!

So, I wanted to create a textured canvas to use for watercolor. I created a new quick group, then changed the first layer into a transparency mask which I filled with a pattern (just the paper texture version 1, I believe). Then I went to create a new layer within the same group on top of the transparency layer. It seemed to work great, it did exactly what I wanted aesthetic wise, and I was able to paint for about a minute before the program just...closed. It froze for ~5 seconds, then closed. There are no crash reports generated from it. I have tried three times to do this and every time it has just closes out. I have the current 4.4.1 version and use an XP Pen tablet if that matters. I'm running on Windows.

Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks, ya'll.

For the crash log, have you looked in %LOCALAPPDATA%? Maybe it would work to remove/move away all krita related things there, try with a clean config and reproduce the issue. If there's a krita-crash.log file, it would be better doable to investigate the issue.