Phil O'Dea wrote:So after trying all the suggestions of uninstalling plugins, deleting prefs & settings, going back to a previous version, uninstalling QSync for my QNAP just incase if was the Synology issue,
I'm not fully up to speed on the Synology infrastructure, but it's specifically the Cloud Station service that causes the hang. I don't know if uninstalling QSync also disables/uninstalls that component. It's not visible in the Task Manager; you have to run services.msc to be able to see if it's running or not. If it is, there's a batch file that will disable it temporarily while Fusion starts up. Still may not be the cause of your problem, but I thought I'd mention it. Here's the batch file that starts Fusion 9 from its default location. Alter the path to match the version of Fusion you're running and its location, save it with the .bat extension, and use it to run Fusion.
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@echo off
net stop "Cloud Station Drive VSS Service x64"
start "Fusion" "C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\Fusion 9\Fusion.exe"
PING -n 30 127.0.0.1>nul
net start "Cloud Station Drive VSS Service x64"
Second time it was McAfee antivirus/firewall.
Did you share that information with the community at some point? This is the first I've heard of McAfee causing interference. Although it certainly doesn't surprise me. McAfee and Symantec both seem to believe that the primary purpose of a computer is to run anti-virus software.
Did you find a solution that permits you to run McAfee along with Fusion? Or did you have to uninstall it?
So are we supposed to run Fusion Studio on a standalone system with no plugins, security software, not connected to a NAS of anything else in the outside world?... sounds a bit like LOCKDOWN.
It sounds like you've just had the bad luck to win the software conflict lottery. Personally, I've never had a conflict of that kind. I've experienced spontaneous dongle failure, and I ran into the processor instruction system limit on a
very old PC, but all of my other software, including a Seagate NAS, interacts with Fusion Studio just fine.