@Ralph_S, @CubeAce

Hi

Ralph - if this is VPX 12 it takes about 15 to 18 secs on my PC depending on whether the has recently had a clean start or has been running for a while.

Ray - the startup is definitely slower than VPX 11, I am also not running SSD drives.

John EB

@johnebaker @Ralph_S

Hi John.

Doesn't everything within the program also have to initialise, so plug-ins etc before you get to the main screen? I know you have many more of those than I do. It could also be a how many cores a system has thing. My copy of Cubase takes the longest to load at around 30 seconds and I can see the list of plug-ins being initialised as they whizz through on the splash startup screen before the main editing screen opens. I think it may be worse if only working with one screen if the main editing screen is blocking the view of the desktop.

I just tried MEP 2021 and that took 16 secs to load so it does seem the new versions take longer.

Only my C: drive is currently M.2

Ray.

@CubeAce, @Ralph_S

Hi Ray, Ralph

There are a host of components of the program loaded prior to getting the the New project/Load project dialog - you can what is loading bottom left of the splash screen, other items are loaded on initial use.

John EB

I use a reasonably powered laptop (i7, 2.6 GHz, 32 GB RAM). VPX(12) loads in "full screen" mode and takes 3.5 minutes to load. During this time the VPX window cannot be minimized. Unless I connect a 2nd monitor, I cannot do anything on the computer until VPX finishes loading. BTW, this laptop has an SSD primary drive.

@Ralph_S

I've just opened VPX12 for the first time today, computer was switched off completely overnight, and everything was loaded and "ready to run" in less than 30 seconds after I clicked on the desktop icon. If yours is taking 3.5 minutes I suspect there is something amiss with your installation, I'm afraid. (You can see my computer spec in my signature.)

Hopefully @johnebaker will come back and be able to suggest how you might try to resolve this. However, as he says in an earlier post, there are a lot of components to "activate"; these are clearly shown in the bottom left hand corner of the splash screen. have you tried watching the list as it goes through to see exactly which component(s) is/are causing the "hold-up"?

Jeff

@Ralph_S @emmrecs @johnebaker

My first thought is there is not enough free space on the C: drive to load quickly or it is too defragmented, or both but difficult to even guess at as Ralph still hasn't put his full specs into his signature and to be frank is getting a bit of a bind trying to go back to older posts to find them to remind me of possible problems.

3 minutes though is way too long to load.

Ray.

@Ralph_S, @emmrecs, @CubeAce

Hi Ralph

. . . . and to be frank is getting a bit of a bind trying to go back to older posts to find them to remind me of possible problems. . . . .

Please put you computer spec into your profile signature - see mine as an example - the processor number you have quoted is missing 4/5 numbers and possibly one or two letters - eg my processor is an i7-8700K.

To access your profile click your avatar top right of the page this will open the page shown below

. . . . C: drive to load quickly or it is too defragmented . . . . .

SSD's should not be defragmented as it uses up the write counts and can reduce the lifespan of the SSD drive - additionally it makes no difference to the read/write speed of the SSD drive.

For hard drives with Windows 10, it is also unnecessary to defragment them - Windows 10 does this automatically in the background once per week, SSD drives are trimmed rather than defragged.

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John.

Sorry, I meant trimmed if SSD. I have defragmenting turned off on all drives and do it when I think it needs doing. Old habit I guess.

Ray.

@CubeAce

Hi Ray

. . . .  I have defragmenting turned off on all drives . . . .

It is best to leave it on - little and often is better than a massive defrag once in a while.

John EB

@Ralph_S

Hi

I have tried VPX 12 on my 6 year old laptop, 4th generation i5 with a single hard drive, and it loads in 20 secs - ie up to the New/Load project screen.

At 3.5 minutes my first thoughts are there may possibly be something wrong with the SSD drive or your Windows installation.

If you know the SSD drive manufacturer they should have some diagnostic software available to check the drive.

To check the Windows installation see this tutorial and do steps 4 - 11.

Have you made any modifications to Windows settings such as Page file size?

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John. I turned it off when my two SSDs got destroyed. Remember when I was complaining about MEP hanging? I know there was a windows update that stopped that shortly after but at present I'm not trusting Windows to throw that problem up again at some future point. Maybe when I've got a C: drive backup sorted. That should be soon.

Ray.

@johnebaker

My SSD is optimized weekly. Previously I had not modified the factory pagefile settings, but I did customize them just now to 1536 MB Initial size and 4096 MB Max size. This helped bring the load time down to ~2 minutes. I then deleted most of the non-essential programs running in the background. With these modifications, the load time was reduced to ~1.5 min. The biggest problem, which I think is actually a bug, is that I can not minimize the window to do other things while VPX is loading. I had another thought. Every time VPX loads, it checks for other Magix software updates and utilities to load. There are several updates and add-ons for programs that I have used in the past, e.g. MEP, Slideshow, and Soundtrack, but do not use them now. Could this process be taking a long time, and if so can it be turned off?

To check the Windows installation see this tutorial and do steps 4 - 11.

John EB

I'm not sure what "tutorial" you are referring to.(?)

@Ralph_S

Hi Ralph

. . . . I'm not sure what "tutorial" you are referring to.(?) . . . .

Apologies the link did not take, I was referring to this tutorial.

John EB

@johnebaker

Thanks for the link, but this is a new laptop with Windows 10 preinstalled. I then installed all my programs, including Magix programs.

Two questions. On your system when VPX is loading, 1) does it load in a maximized window? 2) Are you able to minimize that window to use other programs while VPX is loading?

@CubeAce

My first thought is there is not enough free space on the C: drive to load quickly or it is too defragmented,

Ray, I've got 418 GB of free space on an SSD that is optimized weekly. I've decided to uninstall and reinstall VPX and all of its components.

@Ralph_S @emmrecs @johnebaker

Hi Ralph.

Have you changed any of the laptops' internals as you have stated it has a 1TB SSD but the Dell specifications page has it showing 256GB. Again the website is stating M.2 PCIe NVMe. If you have changed it, what is the make and model of the M.2 PCIe NVMe drive?

Here are the specs I found.

Is that your machine?

Have you designated your Blu-ray player as a destination drive for anything to do with VPX?

You are not citing any other storage drives external. If you have any what type and capacity are they?

How much free space do you have on any of your other drives please?

To answer your question. No, the main VPX screen can not be resized during initialisation.

Ray.

@Ralph_S

Hi Ralph

. . . . On your system when VPX is loading, 1) does it load in a maximized window? 2) Are you able to minimize that window to use other programs while VPX is loading? . . . .

VPX 12 opens as shown in the clip below - this is in real time, you should see what is loading - yellow highlight in the clip below.

While you can access other programs, the splash page is always on top - this is not unique to Video Pro X.

By coincidence I was looking at Dell for a new laptop yesterday, so I would be interested in how it performs once the issues are sorted.

John EB

@johnebaker@johnebaker @emmrecs

Hi John.

I put your video on screen 2 of my monitors and opened my copy of VPX11 at the same time as you opened your copy and although different parts of the program seemed to initialise at different times / speeds they both competed within a second of each other.

Ray.

@CubeAce

Hi Ray

The difference could well be the result of you having a SSD drive.

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John.

Or me being a bit slow on syncing the start time 😂

Ray.

@johnebaker

Thanks, John. Boy, that is much faster than mine! Even uninstalling all of Magix software, cleaning the registry, reinstalling VPX from a new download, it still took 3+ minutes for VPX to load, and without a 2nd monitor, I can do nothing on the machine until VPX finishes loading. I'm going to open a support ticket on this. One should at least be able to minimize the window!