FIXED: Cubase 6.5 slowest startup in the west?

[RandomChaos00]

FIXED: It seems my antivirus program, McAfee Antivirus Plus was to blame. I disabled real-time scanning but not the firewall and Cubase 6.5 started up very quickly. I turned real-time scanning back on and it still started up quickly.

Thanks to those who suggested that as a solution.
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After installing the Cubase 6.5 update on February 29, I found it's very, very, very slow to startup. On about the third time I started it after installation on March 1 it took about 5 minutes before I got to the project setup window. The initial startup with the VST3 and VST 2.x plugin scans also took a long time, but that's to be expected. I haven't added any plugins though I did install PreSonus Studio One version 2 64-bit since I last started Cubase 6.5.

It seems to hang on the VST 2.x plugin scan. The startup now is actually much slower than the Cubase 6 startup. Anybody else experiencing this? Could this be a leap year bug?

I'm running Windows Home Premium 64-bit with Cubase 6.5 64-bit only. 8GB of RAM and plenty of drive space with a Roland Quad-Capture USB audio card. All drivers are up to date.

[Conman]

Strange as the notes say that they'd improved the startup time.
Good choice of soundcard, I've just got one.

[The dman]

Maybe trash your preferences???

[crofter]

I see no increase in startup time.

[HowlingUlf]

A shot from the hip but did Cubase reread all the plugins on the first startup?
Are all startups slow even now?

[RandomChaos00]

Maybe trash your preferences???

Thanks, I might do that after contacting tech support.

[RandomChaos00]

A shot from the hip but did Cubase reread all the plugins on the first startup?
Are all startups slow even now?

There's a longer story to all this in this I had to do a reinstall after an initial install failed. I got help from tech support. After getting Cubase 6.0.5 installed and running (it seemed to be fine in terms of startup time) I downloaded and installed Cubase 6.5. Cubase 6.5 rescanned all the plugins the first time it was run and that took a long time.

This morning (Mar 1) when I ran it it seemed to get hung up on the VST 2.x plugin notification during the startup. Nothing was being scanned though.

[wodehouse]

Just installed it onto another PC (W7 64bit) and the start up hung on VST2 plugins for 15 mins before I did a reboot!
It worked ok the second time but was slow. I'll try again tomorrow.

[Arjan P]

People, I had the same problem during first start-up, also during VST 2 scanning. BUT: just before I got a dialog from my virus scanner (F-Secure) that Cubase wanted access to something. Giving the OK didn't work: I had to disable F-Secure and then startup Cubase intitial run and it started up real fast. Having F-Secure on again didn't interfere anymore with Cubase startup, but I suspect this may be something to look into: Disable virus scanner during first start-up! Maybe a mod can verify?

[billum]

I have very slow startup, with a long wait for VST 2 Scanning, just the first time I run Cubase after booting Windows. The subsequent times are much faster, whizzing through VST 2 Scanning with barely a how-d'yer-do, so presumably the info is cached the first time.

I think Waveshell, which I'm running through jBridge for Cubase 64bit, is causing at least some of the hold-up, and sometimes I get an error message saying that it couldn't be loaded on my first Cubase boot-up.

I believe that fixing slow load-up times is part of the new Waves v9 64bit release due this month!

Also I agree that disabling virus scanning for the VST folders can help!

[dipperdude]

After installing v 6.5 64 bit update I found that the startup hung initialising Tonic vst and I had to exit startup usingTask Manager. But having disabled McAffee AV and firewall, a second attempt succeeded and following that no problems with startup and the startup time seems to be quicker on the new version.

[RandomChaos00]

After installing v 6.5 64 bit update I found that the startup hung initialising Tonic vst and I had to exit startup usingTask Manager. But having disabled McAffee AV and firewall, a second attempt succeeded and following that no problems with startup and the startup time seems to be quicker on the new version.

Taking a cue from the anti-virus crowd, I also disabled my McAfee real-time scanning but not the firewall. Cubase 6.5 started up real quick. I exited and restarted, this time with McAfee real-time scanning enabled, and Cubase started up in about the same amount of time.

So it looks like turning off any real-time scanning will fix this problem. Because I usually have a Web browser open when I'm really Cubase and other DAWS, I prefer to leave the McAfee real-time scanning and firewall on.

Thank you everyone for your help on this!

[wodehouse]

Same as other member posted here, my system 'stops' whilst trying to load Tonic. It requires a reboot!

[dorremifasol]

I did notice it's faster to boot in my system, much faster.

[Strophoid]

Yep me too, at least 10 seconds shaved off the startup time, if not more. It only takes about 8 now