"Plugins" options causes Rhino to stop responding....sort of

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,

Tried selecting Plugins option a few times. First time I had to ForceQuit out of the program, then it read as “Rhino not responding,” but after a bit did ultimately open. And just now it opened just fine.

Thx

Alan

SysInfo

Rhino 8 SR3 2023-12-12 (Rhino 8, 8.3.23346.14001, Git hash:master @ 3b8659a0557b596b2d172939093022d2b67fd2e1)
License type: Commercial, build 2023-12-12
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.22635 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
.NET 7.0.0

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NVidia) Memory: 12GB, Driver date: 12-6-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 546.33
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 0

Secondary graphics devices.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 12-6-2023 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port 0

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: 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: 12-6-2023
Driver Version: 31.0.15.4633
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 12 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\RPC\0.0.11-beta\RPC.rhp “RPC”
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\SubstanceImporter\2.0.5\Substance.Win.rhp “SubstanceImporter” 2.0.5.0
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\rhinopbrmaterial\1.1.4+v6.16\RhinoPbrMaterial.rhp “RhinoPbrMaterial” 1.1.2.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCode\RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.3.23346.14001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.3.23346.14001
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”

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Hi Alan - by this you mean Options > Plug-ins page, correct? If RPC, SubstanceImporter and RhinoPBRMaterial (why do you have that?) are blocked/disabled and Rhino closed and reopened, does it make ny difference?

-Pascal

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Hi @pascal thx for the reply. Yes, that’s what I meant anout Plugins options, thx for disambiguating.

At this point, it seems to open fine. Like maybe its some kind of a cache thing?

The PBR plugin is probably a holdover from RH7 I guess. I had to reinstall Windows and I may have brought some unnecessary files in from my archives.