Hi everyone, been using Houdini for about a year now.

when I first installed Houdini, was very impressed at its launch time (not file loading time, but launching Houdini).

oddly, after about a year, it's taking close to 30seconds+ to just launch the software and feels like it's taking longer and longer to launch.

again, this is not about opening a file, but just launching the app.

i come from 3ds Max, and usually, with more plugins installed, it takes longer to launch.

however, with Houdini, the reason why I love it is I can just build my own tools rather than relying heavily on 3rd party.

so I do not have anything else installed (other than redshift, which I installed with Houdini about a year ago).

perhaps its some kind of cache file or garbage file that Houdini needs to sort out when launching, which could explain it taking longer and longer more i use it.

any idea? suggestions?

thanks in advance!

Hi. I know Arnold licence checking can really slow down Houdini loading. Could redshift be doing the same?

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Hi Mark! thank you for your suggestion.

my memory may be fuzzy (it's about a year ago) but I started the whole HOUDINI journey with redshift, thus my experience of faster loading of HOUDINI was with redshift already installed and licensed properly.

what i find interesting is that it seems to get slower and slower.

again, i have not timed the launch (maybe i should), but it feels noticeably slower than about a month ago.

now i would run Houdini and since it takes a while, will go to youtube for a quick update, and usually gets surprised that it's still not loaded (again, very arbitrary measurement of time).

i do have a few PYTHON scripted tools built as i work on production, but not many (and not too complex) and i only load HDA per project as needed (so i don't have a folder of HDA always loading)

is there any way of seeing a log of Houdini launching for troubleshooting?

Thanks!

can confirm Houdini is substantially slower with Arnold launching