Plugins not working/loading anymore?

Hello,

I don't know what to tell you, but every single plug-in, from Red Giant/Maxon, to Element 3D, have ALL stopped working, since the latter version of Ae 2022, and now all in AE 2023. I can date it back to Adobe Max.

I have uninstalled everything, reinstalled the OS, reinstalled all of Adobe and plugins from scratch - twice.Yes, I tried it with no VPN and with no anti-virus or malware services running for a hot minute, but I have the same on an older machine right now -- no problem (just slower). No good on the newer machine.

I contacted Video CoPilot, and they acknowledged an issue with AMD Threadripper chips and said they're fixing that for the next release (oh, well, at least they acknowledged the issue, though the response was useless). I'm not sure if Adobe biases towards Intel chips only, over AMD, but it's a shame to have 64 cores, and only have ONE in use for Ae.?! There's 256 GB of RAM, a 24 GB NVIDIA RTX 3090, and everything is all on multiple SSD/VMEs. All of this is running on Win 10 64-bit Pro, as I'd started on Win 11 64-bit Pro, but hardly anyone had updated for that OS, so I had to re-install 10.

There is no reason why this should be crashing. It should be shredding through renders. Instead, it's slower now than a PC that's a decade old. No joke, I keep them around for emergencies like this. At least I could open the plugins, but they're slower than ever. None of this makes any sense.

I can see from these threads that this is not a unique problem. If anyone has a hot-fix, patch, work-around, etc., I'm open to trying anything now.