Resolve 14 Now Crashes on Startup if AntiVirus Active

Hello,

After installing the final version of Resolve 14 (14.0.0.078 according to the installer), the application no longer starts, and crashes at the splash screen. After a clean install (uninstalling the application and deleting "ProgramData") the application will start the tour and initial setup, but will crash at "Looking for Control Surface" on the splash screen. Subsequent runs will not even show the splash screen.

In Resource Monitor, Resolve.exe is listed as "Suspended" and cannot be closed ("Access is Denied") even when runnning ResMon as admin.

The logs can be found below. If you need the dmp file too let me know, but it is ~100mb There are a lot of references to "Failed to load user preferences" and "socket failed to connect to server, error: 10061" in the logs.

hxxxx://xxx.dropbox.com/s/bt62cp4j2tc9moj/logs.zip?dl=0

I have been using the Beta versions up to b7 without this particular issue, however reinstalling b7 now gives me the exact same crash.

Win10x64
Geforce GTX 970

After some more investigation, the problem appears to be with my virus scanner (AVG Antivirus Free). If that is disabled when starting Resolve, it works as intended.

Will update the title to reflect this.

This problem occurred for me when I was connected to VPN (not AntiVirus, but along the same lines). Turning it off allowed me to start without (another) hitch!