Substance painter closes (not crashes) after around 3 minutes of work.

Never mind! I got it to work. 

In Substance, when I went to sign in, it looped for 3 minutes before closing. 

Apparently NordVPN stuff (even though off, threat protection and other Nord processes was blocking stuff) was blocking it.

So after running the thing below in Powershell to close out all Nord things, it signed me in automatically and its working now. 

 

# Stop all Nord services
Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*nord*" -or $_.DisplayName -like "*nord*" } | ForEach-Object {
    Write-Host "Stopping service: $($_.Name)"
    Stop-Service -Name $_.Name -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

# Set them to Disabled so they don't auto-restart on reboot
Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*nord*" -or $_.DisplayName -like "*nord*" } | ForEach-Object {
    Write-Host "Disabling service: $($_.Name)"
    Set-Service -Name $_.Name -StartupType Disabled -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

# Kill any Nord processes still alive
Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.ProcessName -like "*nord*" } | ForEach-Object {
    Write-Host "Killing process: $($_.ProcessName) (PID $($_.Id))"
    Stop-Process -Id $_.Id -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

# Verify
Write-Host "`n=== After cleanup ==="
Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*nord*" -or $_.DisplayName -like "*nord*" } | Format-Table Name, Status, StartType -AutoSize
Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.ProcessName -like "*nord*" } | Format-Table ProcessName, Id -AutoSize