AME Stuck on Connecting to Dynamic Link Server with AE 16.1.1 Windows 10 Pro

Hi,

I am encountering this issue as well, in fact, I just had it hang for about 5 minutes, before finally kicking in.

While it was stuck, I checked Windows Task Manager and did not see any abnormal activity. Low CPU, RAM, and Graphics Card use.

My system specs are:

• After Effects 16.1.1
• Media Encoder 13.1
• Windows 10 Pro
• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Processor 3.00GHz
• Asus ROG STRIX X399-E Motherboard
• 128GB DDR4-2666 RAM
• 2x GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (in SLI/NVLink mode)
• GeForce Drivers 430.39
• Samsung SSD 970 EVO 2TB

As you can imagine, encountering such long work interruptions, with an often used program, on a system that is otherwise quite nimble, is pretty frustrating, and I'd really love to get it sorted out.

If there's anything else I can do/test to assist, I'll try and help as I can (work permitting).

Thanks!

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