Hi,
While we haven't seen the same problem as you, we do have something similar to your setup running on our robot. We do our vision processing on an external board, which sends the results via UDP to the cRIO. We have our receiver running in a separate thread, and have had no issues with it. You can see our implementation
here.
Good Luck
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