Strange sim speed change on save/reopen

[KenTanker0us]

Thank you for your response, Kresimir.

With your permission I will list all info that might be useful:

1. When I reload the scene, the viewports all go black for (roughly) 10 seconds before completing the reload.

2. After the screen stops being black and the scene is loaded, when it is doing the 'slow' sim, all the FFX windows will frequently go white.

3. Average frame time before save/reopen is 0.9 seconds. After reopen average time is 10 seconds.

4. CPU usage before save/reopen is around 25%. After reopen CPU stays down around 2%.

5. My GPU is GeForce GTX 670.

6. I have 32GB ram. I have done many FumeFX sims on this machine in the past, but that was in Max 2014. I am in 2016 now.

7. I recently changed my to network licensing. I learned all about configuring AfterFLICS and everything is getting a license ok. When I was troubleshooting, I did open ports in my firewall through AVG. Could that possibly cause a problem? It seems crazy to me but I feel I should mention anything involved with FFX at this point.

Any advice is welcome. I look forward to having this problem addressed so I can have some fun with Fume.

Thanks very much

Ken