diff --git a/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py b/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
index 10a10a57e2..24f7357434 100644
--- a/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
+++ b/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
@@ -619,6 +619,27 @@ class VideoBackend:
 
     # ── generation ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _reset_step_cache(pipe: Any) -> None:
+        """Clear FBCache residuals on the resident DiT(s) before a generation.
+
+        diffusers keys the residuals on the long-lived transformer and no pipeline
+        resets them, so the next clip would compare against the previous request's
+        state: a shape mismatch when the resolution changed, stale reuse otherwise.
+        ``_reset_stateful_cache`` is the transformer-level entry point in diffusers
+        0.39 (``reset_stateful_hooks`` lives only on the HookRegistry). Best-effort:
+        an uncached transformer is a silent no-op."""
+        for name in ("transformer", "transformer_2"):
+            module = getattr(pipe, name, None)
+            reset = getattr(module, "_reset_stateful_cache", None) or getattr(
+                module, "reset_stateful_hooks", None
+            )
+            if callable(reset):
+                try:
+                    reset()
+                except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 -- reset is best-effort, never fail a generation
+                    pass
+
     def generate(
         self,
         *,
@@ -704,6 +725,8 @@ class VideoBackend:
                 if "callback_on_step_end" in call_params:
                     kwargs["callback_on_step_end"] = _on_step
 
+                if state.transformer_cache:
+                    self._reset_step_cache(pipe)
                 with torch.inference_mode():
                     output = pipe(**kwargs)
                 if cancel.is_set():
diff --git a/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py b/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
index f44ee0151a..f92ae1ebc6 100644
--- a/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
+++ b/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
@@ -227,6 +227,39 @@ def test_generate_defaults_from_variant(fake_runtime, tmp_path):
     assert call["guidance_scale"] == 1.0
 
 
+def test_generate_resets_step_cache_only_when_engaged(fake_runtime, tmp_path):
+    # FBCache residuals live on the long-lived DiT(s) and survive a generation, so
+    # the next clip at a new resolution would crash on stale state. generate must
+    # reset them when a cache is engaged (diffusers 0.39 exposes
+    # _reset_stateful_cache on the transformer; reset_stateful_hooks only exists on
+    # the HookRegistry) and must not touch an uncached load. transformer_2 (the Wan
+    # dual expert) resets too when present.
+    import dataclasses
+
+    (tmp_path / "ltx-2.3-22b-distilled-1.1-Q4_K_M.gguf").write_bytes(b"w")
+    backend = VideoBackend()
+    backend.load_pipeline(
+        str(tmp_path),
+        gguf_filename = "ltx-2.3-22b-distilled-1.1-Q4_K_M.gguf",
+        base_repo = "Lightricks/LTX-2",
+        family_override = "ltx-2",
+    )
+    resets = []
+    backend._state.pipe.transformer = types.SimpleNamespace(
+        _reset_stateful_cache = lambda: resets.append("transformer")
+    )
+    backend._state.pipe.transformer_2 = types.SimpleNamespace(
+        _reset_stateful_cache = lambda: resets.append("transformer_2")
+    )
+    # No cache engaged -> no reset.
+    backend.generate(prompt = "a sloth")
+    assert resets == []
+    # Cache engaged -> both resident DiTs reset before the pipe call.
+    backend._state = dataclasses.replace(backend._state, transformer_cache = "fbcache")
+    backend.generate(prompt = "a sloth")
+    assert resets == ["transformer", "transformer_2"]
+
+
 def test_is_ltx23_checkpoint_gguf(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
     # diffusers maps every LTX-2 single file to the 2.0 config; a 2.3 checkpoint
     # (9-row modulation tables in the header) must be detected so the loader