45 Seconds and nothing

[glorybound]

When I launch Vantage (2.1.1) it takes 45 seconds to open, and nothing happens. I have a very simple scene. Vantage is open, the icon is lite, but nothing opens in Vantage. When I initiate an animation in MAX, to Vanatge, it says Vantage needs to be opened first. What gives?

[glorybound]

Closing and relaunching MAX fixed it. However, it does happen often enough to be a headache.

[vladimir.nedev]

When you start a new version of Vantage for the first time, it will take ~40 seconds to compile the GPU shaders (the time depends on your single thread CPU performance actually, could be half of that).
This is something the GPU driver does.
From then on, the shaders are cached and reused for subsequent Vantage runs.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev