Use this thread to report on any bugs that you've come across. Please include the version of After Effects you're using and any associated crash dumps that you can provide!
I've re-uploaded an alternative version of the plugin that you can re-download and try that adjusts the initialization a bit. Lemme know how it goes! If it has initialization issues again though, is it possible that you can provide more information from your crash report? It seems to be having an issue with initializing Vulkan, despite your system clearly being capable of supporting it. If you'd like you can send it to me at wunkolo(at)gmail.com for privacy.
Note for myself: (Build date: Sat Jan 8 16:38:42 2022)
Been trying to find out any sort of consistency between the systems where it does/doesn't initialize correctly it has me quite stumped 馃檨. Others seem to be getting it too.
I can't seem to pick out any particular thing causing it, even switching between the Studio/Game-Ready Nvidia drivers. Opening the dump files sent over in WinDbg was giving me "bad_dump" issues and was not providing any more details. I was iterating with someone else that was having the issue to no avail either and their installation was a more bare-bone workstation installation too.
If you could, do you perhaps have any crash-log(not crash-dump) files in your Adobe AppData directory?
You should be able to put "%APPDATA%\Adobe\After Effects" in your explorer path and it will take you there, and within there you should see a folder like 22.1 there and a logs folder within that where you may find .crash files.
For example, my After Effects 2022 crash-log folder is: "%APPDATA%\Adobe\After Effects\22.1\logs". And in there should be timestamped files that identify the particular crashes if it correlates with any recent crashes you got with the plugins in particular.
Feel free to email it to me rather than post it here.