Grasshopper takes 1-5 minutes to load (Rhino 8)

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Hi Rhino,

I recently upgraded from Rhino 7 to Rhino 8 and noticed I had problems loading up grasshopper. Grasshopper itself works fine, but it’s the loading issue that bothers me as from what I know, it should automatically load in the first 10 seconds. I’m not very tech savy, but these past few days I have been trying several methods to fix this issue

  1. Deleting Rhino 8
  2. Deleting third party plugins
  3. Grasshopper onebyone (mentioned from another similar thread, but didn’t work)
  4. Deleting the grasshopper folder found in libraries

At first, I thought it was a third party plug in issue, but I only have ladybug installed. I tried comparing the other plugins to another friend who is also using rhino 8 with no problems, but to no avail, I am back to square one.

Please let me know what’s the best way to fix this solution, and I can’t wait to hear from the community!

Rhino 8 SR24 2025-9-23 (Rhino 8, 8.24.25266.14031, Git hash:master @ 2932afd85007aab33db50051e0d306826505735b)
License type: Educational, build 2025-09-23
License details: Stand-Alone

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32GB)
.NET 8.0.14

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [100% battery remaining]

Non-hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 9-5-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 581.29

Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

  • Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
    Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 9-5-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 581.29

Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

  • Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port

Secondary graphics devices.
Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 128MB, Driver date: 2-5-2024 (M-D-Y).

Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

  • Secondary monitor is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 9-5-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.8129
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 8188 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.24.25266.14031
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”