Stuck on 1.07, cannot update to latest Vital version on Windows

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#1

Hi, all. As my ticket states, I am stuck on an outdated version of Vital. I know others have had similar issues, and I have tried all of the mentioned fixes. Last resort is to uninstall Vital and install it with the latest version, but I really would rather not do that.

Has anyone else who has had this issue found a solution? Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks!

#2

What exactly do you mean by stuck

#3

I ran the most recent version installer in order to update myself from 1.07, but after multiple executions with and without admin privileges, Vital is still stuck on 1.07.

#4

Look at your DAW settings and look at the search path settings for the plugins VST, VST3 and CLAP.
If the following exists in all of those paths, delete them all.
Vital.dll
Vital vst3
Vital clap
Restart your DAW and confirm that Vital is no longer available.
Please install the new version.

#5

I had a very similar issue, in my case the vst2 got updated but the vst3 didn’t.
You should quickly check what version of Vital your DAW shows in each format (you might have Vital in the formats vst2, vst3, clap or au)

Here’s how i got if FIXED:
I checked what each one of my plugin file locations were, including the system’s standard locations. It’s important to do this for each plugin format that hasn’t properly updated. I looked for Vital in every one of those and checked the “date modified”, and noticed that some of them had different dates. This tells me that some of the vsts were an older version. I then deleted the old versions, and ran the newest Vital installer again. Then all of my Vital vsts were succesfully updated to the newest version.

Some notes:

  • The “date modified” is the date when that version of Vital was made, but it is not the date when it was installed. An older date here means an older version of Vital.

  • The problem is that you might have two different versions of Vital in the same plugin format, at the same time. You might have the 1.0.7 version in your system’s standard plugin location, and a new 1.5.5 version in your own custom plugin folder. Because of this, your DAW might open up the old version instead of the new one.

  • You can also just delete all of your Vital plugins, in every format. This way you can be sure that no old version of Vital was left. So you should look for these in your plugin folders and locations:
    Vital.vst3 - Vital.dll - Vital.au - Vital.clap
    And delete each that you find. Then just continue by using the newest Vital installer once again.

  • Deleting just the main plugin files (listed above) will leave all your presets, settings and prefrences the same, because these types of information are saved in other files. With this method you don’t have to fully uninstall Vital, and you can avoid any changes to your settings and such.