Sony Vegas 64bit is crashing as soon as it scans my Slate Digital and Waves Audio plugins folder. Is there a way to bypass plugin scanning at startup please?
I would probably start by temporarily moving the plugins out of their folders so that Vegas can't find them, then seeing if Vegas will start. Then in Options>Preferences>VST Effects you probably want to set C:\Program Files\VSTplugins\ (not C:\Program Files (x86)\Vstplugins) as your Default VST search folder and use the 64-bit versions of your VSTs. Note that Vegas does not support VST3 format.
To bypass the VST plug-ins search during the start-up process, try this: - Right-click on the application's shortcut launch icon. - Select 'Properties' - Add the following command outside of the quotes in the Target field: /NOVSTGROVEL be sure to include a space between the last quote and the beginning of the command line
"C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\vegas190.exe" /NOVSTGROVEL
Just tried this on Vegas 21 build 315 but no joy. It's a shame because start up times have increased significantly with the last couple of builds (pretty sure it was 'normal' for the first v21 build). I haven't added any new VSTs, so I'm unclear as to why the very slow scan. I was hoping this might fix the issue and bypass the scan, but it doesn't seem to work on this build. Thanks all the same!
To bypass the VST plug-ins search during the start-up process, try this: - Right-click on the application's shortcut launch icon. - Select 'Properties' - Add the following command outside of the quotes in the Target field: /NOVSTGROVEL be sure to include a space between the last quote and the beginning of the command line
"C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\vegas190.exe" /NOVSTGROVEL
Thank you so much for sharing this fix! VEGAS was stuck on discovering all of my music-related vst plugins and simply would not start. After adding "/NOVSTGROVEL", it magically opened.