General stability improvements to reduce crashes during common tasks like deleting faces, merging vertices, or using the Graph Editor Performance Optimization:
Other users experienced consistent crashes shortly after Maya successfully launched. A suggested solution from Autodesk support for this problem was to modify the Maya.env file. Adding the line MAYA_DISABLE_OPENCL=1 to this file could resolve the crashes, indicating that conflicts with OpenCL processing were a potential source of instability. autodesk maya 20185 fixed