Hi all,

I was going to post a question but instead will post a possible solution in case it might help someone.

After an upgrade to my HDD and Windows, the fresh installation of Houdini was exceedingly slow when it came time to create nodes of any kind (like 8 seconds between my dropping a node and its creation!).

After a lot of troubleshooting, I finally re-checked the license server and found it was pointing at our school license server BUT the "localhost..." entry was listed below it. Deleting the "localhost" entry has done the trick.

Now just the license server is listed and Houdini starts faster AND there's no slow down when creating/deleting nodes.

Hope this helps someone -- was driving me crazy!

Thank you!!! I was having the same issue for weeks and about to go crazy. This resolved it.