It takes almost a minute and a half for VW 2024 to start up on my machine... is this normal?

[hollister design Studio]

None of the previous versions of Vectorworks took this long - I noticed it with the release of 2024.

It should be said that no other programs take long to start - everything is on an SSD and should start immediately - Photoshop and AutoCAD are almost instant.

 

The loading screen doesn't even appear until 33sec in.

For the first month I kept opening multiple instances because I could never tell if VW was starting or not - now I know I have to wait (exactly) 33 sec before I try again.

 

Laptop is generally running well:

i9-12900hk

64GB ram

Samsung 256 SSD

WinPro update to current 23H2

 

Screen Cap: 

 

 

 

 

[zoomer]

Thanks for your clock in the video.

 

Now I know that VW 2024 here on my M1 Mac Mini takes 36 seconds

until the Home Screen appears.

 

Do you have large workgroup files on a slow server connection ?

And I saw it stalling loading Cinerender for about 20 s ?

 

 

[hollister design Studio]

38 minutes ago, zoomer said:

...and I saw it stalling loading Cinerender for about 20 s ?

 

 

I saw that too, and I don't even know what that is... do I need it? if not. can I turn it off?

 

I do have fairly large User Library files (plant  objects, custom symbols, and styles mostly) - but they are on my computer.

...there are no server files in my office.

[zoomer]

If you need RW Rendering, Cinema Render Engine is needed and I am not sure

if it is a good idea to try to pull it out in general .....

 

I noticed that lately Cinerender stalling too here, but not every time.

Usually for me it stalls "checking license" ....

And am not sure if you can really trust the loading screen infos.

 

I haven't even installed VW 2024 so far on Windows. So I do not know

how long it starts. But generally VW for me was always one of the

slowest starting Apps.

 

In an office in the past I was told, first you boot your PC, start your CAD

and then you go and grab your cup of coffee ....

 

 

[bjoerka]

Do you have a VPN connection open to any other service or server?

When i have a VPN connection to our office then vwx takes nearly 2 minutes to start, even the volume where the workgroup libraries are, is not mounted...

Edited March 30 by bjoerka

[hollister design Studio]

@bjoerkano server, just a dedicated machine with everything on it local

[Amanda McDermott]

Mine still takes a while...but it did improve significantly once we stopped storing the shared workspace over VPN, and started using Dropbox instead. Sorry that doesn't sound to help you @hollister design Studio but might help others. Will follow with interest to see if you come up with solutions to make it quicker!

[bcd]

23s here on Mac to the VW Home Screen

[hollister design Studio]

updated to 4.1 - now we're started in 36 sec

 

 

MUCH better