Virus Control Load times

[Toby Emerson]

Hey Guys how long does it take for your Virus Control to load up. I'm getting about 30 seconds to a minute before I even get the start up screen and I don't think that is normal.

Any ideas on this (could it be a usb issue?)

[PaPi]

Not normal, it shouldn't load slower than any other plugin. 30 seconds plus is waaaay too long. Could be a driver issue, maybe something is messing with virus control. It could be your antivirus. (I realize it sounds like a pun, but it isn't.)

[nutrinoland]

hahaha...anti virus.....

mine takes around 10 seconds...

[Shambler]

It should be instant.

[PaPi]

Originally Posted by nutrinoland

hahaha...anti virus.....

I realize it sounds funny, but I wasn't kidding. My antivirus created major problems with my DAW and several plugins (at that time I didn't have a Virus though.) I had been banging my head against a wall for weeks and went as far as reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything, before totally by chance I read on a forum that other people were having similar problems and the only thing they all had in common was that they were using BitDefender. I immediately removed it and switched to a different product (Prevx, rather pricey but by far the least intrusive, highly recommended to everyone who uses a DAW) and all of my problems were instantly gone.

[merlin]

Although I have a computer of +10 years old, I have found that one thing that has a big influence on the vc startup time is the amount of patch banks in the Access directory. I reduced the amount of banks to less than 5 (moved all the others to a separate dir)and it brought load time of vc back from over two minutes to almost under 5 seconds. You might try that if the number of patch banks on your computer is huge.

[Toby Emerson]

thank you so much merlin!

after reinstalling the virus several times, disabling antivirus programs, and many other troubleshooting steps the issue was the simple problem that I had too many patch banks installed!

ah success after nearly a year of dealing with my virus taking forever to load.