Extremely long loading time to Main menu after moving to standalone

[VesperMace]

Well basically as the title says, I recently moved to the standalone from steam to try support the devs more with my purchases. However my first time loading to just the main Menu takes 25-30 min after I have shut down or restarted my PC. After I load into the main menu just once the loading time goes to like 40 seconds the next time until I restart my PC. Loading any mission is normally around 1 min depending on the dlc used. 

I have looked in the logs and these SOUNDER things can sometimes take 3+ minutes to load. Please see log attached. I ended this one before it finished because I ran out of time to let it load. Some noticeable extracts are below:

2023-02-08 17:27:58.380 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/tech/TechWeaponPack/Sounds
2023-02-08 17:27:58.382 INFO    SOUNDER (Main): Loaded 74 packed sounders.
2023-02-08 17:30:57.892 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/tech/USS_Nimitz/Sounds
2023-02-08 17:30:57.894 INFO    SOUNDER (Main): Loaded 6 packed sounders.
2023-02-08 17:33:07.011 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/aircraft/AJS37/Sounds
2023-02-08 17:33:10.027 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/aircraft/AV8BNA/Sounds

2023-02-08 17:33:23.445 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/aircraft/Christen Eagle II/Sounds
2023-02-08 17:35:31.717 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/aircraft/F14/Sounds
2023-02-08 17:35:31.749 INFO    SOUNDER (Main): Loaded 1 sounders.
2023-02-08 17:41:36.740 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/aircraft/I-16/Sounds
2023-02-08 17:42:12.097 INFO    SOUND (Main): Added sound path: ./CoreMods/aircraft/M-2000C/Sounds

 

PC Specs: 3070ti / 32gb DDR4 RAM / game is on a 2TB Mushkin Vortex PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 / 12700H CPU.

 

Please help it's killed my motivation to even try start the game up now.

 

dcs log.txt

Edited February 9, 2023 by VesperMace

[Flappie]

Hi. Add DCS main folder as an exception to your antivirus and see if it helps.

Also ensure "Run as administrator" is disabled in the DCS.exe properties.