WaitingForGuacamole

Hi, thanks for the quick response! Agreed that I shouldn't purchase if not compatible - it's just that I've read so much positive feedback about it that I'd really like to exhaust my troubleshooting options first. The "vendor-defined" device is not a DIY, but I was able to trim this down by removing all of the vendor-defined devices out of Device Manager - they don't correspond to anything I want, need, or know to have installed, and they're on the stock MS USB driver, so that no longer appears in the logs. What it now seems to hang on is the "ITE Devices", that may be motherboard related, and which I've tried to remove but come back on next hardware scan. These devices don't appear in the hardware blacklist, but they get enumerated anyway, it seems. Well, it appears that something in my motherboard may be triggering this issue - I will take your advice and not proceed with purchase, however, I truly appreciate your help.

Hi, I'm trying to get the eval version of AAO working, and then, obviously, evaluate it prior to purchase. It runs, it connects to MSFS 2020, _but_, it takes up to five minutes to discover and acquire USB devices before the UI is displayed. About 3-1/2 if I remove devices I'd like to use, about 5 if I attach them. I'm running Windows 11, I have vcredist 14.36.32532 installed (both x86 and x64), and .NET 4.8.03928 I'm running AAO as Administrator. I've removed most of the USB devices I have, to try to rule out device/driver conflicts, and I've blacklisted everything that AAO allows me to blacklist. I've tried wiping out the three config folders as you had indicated in another support thread. Firewall is wide open on localhost to 8080, 8081, 9081. No other processes are listening on those ports prior to launching AAO. Do you believe that this is normal or expectable behavior, or an anomaly? My startup log, with minimal device connections, is: 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.136 : Sound folder set: C:\Users\MeMyselfAndI\OneDrive\Documents\LorbyAxisAndOhs Files\Sounds 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.137 : Scripts folder set: C:\Users\MeMyselfAndI\OneDrive\Documents\LorbyAxisAndOhs Files\Scripts 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.137 : Web server folder set: C:\Users\MeMyselfAndI\OneDrive\Documents\LorbyAxisAndOhs Files\WebPages 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.137 : Screenshot folder set: C:\Users\MeMyselfAndI\OneDrive\Pictures\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Files 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.138 : Simulator files folder set: C:\Users\MeMyselfAndI\OneDrive\Documents\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Files 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.501 : App configuration loaded 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.548 : Config database loaded 8/26/2023 10:57:11 AM.712 : Simulator activated 8/26/2023 10:57:31 AM.998 : Found Device ITE Device 07208da0-0edc-11eb-8002-444553540000 8/26/2023 10:57:32 AM.69 : Found Device ITE Device 072a0380-0edc-11eb-8004-444553540000 8/26/2023 10:57:32 AM.73 : Found Device ITE Device(8595) af598200-7eb2-11ec-8004-444553540000 8/26/2023 10:57:32 AM.111 : Found Device ITE Device(8595) af5ed930-7eb2-11ec-8005-444553540000 8/26/2023 10:57:32 AM.120 : Found Device HID-compliant vendor-defined device af595af0-7eb2-11ec-8002-444553540000 8/26/2023 11:00:44 AM.569 : Acquiring devices now 8/26/2023 11:00:44 AM.569 : Device acquisition completed 8/26/2023 11:00:44 AM.728 : Running As Administrator, Web FIPs enabled

So, I've been wrestling with this decision lately (AAO vs S.N), having recently picked up a StreamDeck to integrate with FS2020. I downloaded the AAO demo, as I took all of the recommendations/warnings/etc. to evaluate with the demo version seriously. Great. Got it installed, but when I launch the app, it takes literally 3-5 minutes before the main window appears. Nothing appears, just a process entry in Task Manager, consuming < 1% CPU, for minutes. Then the main window appears out of nowhere. Even tried running it as an administrator, figuring maybe it was hanging up on something that required an elevated privilege, but that didn't affect it. My question is, is that normal? Is there some known condition I need to "fix" on my PC before trying this? I can't really find anything about this specific issue, but I really don't want to go through evaluating it if that's just how it's going to work on my PC. Which would be disappointing, because I've heard great things about it!