Ok, so Vital has decided to stop working on my computer today. When trying to load in Vital, FL Studio gave me a message stating that “Something went wrong trying to load Vital” and told me to reinstall Vital.
Which I did, 5 times. Now FL Studio refuses to scan Vital as a working plugin, and keeps giving me the error status
Has anyone else had this problem before, and knows how to fix it? This has never happened to me before and the majority of my projects use Vital which means I no longer really can work on them
Well then you’d be better off asking for support at the Image-Line forums. Like I said Vital works fine here in FL Studio 20.9.1 build 2796.
So it’s not like there is a universal problem with Vital in FL Studio. IL support can help you figure out what’s going on.
Other than that all I can think of is make sure you don’t have more than one .dll or .vst3 file installed either in multiple locations or the same location. Don’t move the .dll after installation and try not to use the VST3 version.
You could try uninstalling Vital, doing a full scan, then reinstalling and doing another full scan.
There is a chance FL Studio has incorrect database entry for Vital, despite you uninstalling Vital and rescanning all plugins.
To fix that follow the steps below (close FL Studio first ofc):
Open path: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\Image-Line\Data\FL Studio\Presets\Plugin database
and start looking for every single file named “Vital.fst” - delete them all.
Now uninstall Vital (ofc backup your presets and all stuff from it) then open FL Studio and press rescan plugins. If you cannot see Vital on the list skip step #3 and go to step #4, however if you can still see Vital there go to step #3.
If it still shows Vital on the list it means either you did not clean plugin database correctly OR THERE IS VITAL SOMEWHERE ON YOUR PC despite having it uninstalled - you will have to find it manually and delete (it will be either .dll file or .vst3 one). Once you are sure you did everything to ensure it’s gone rescan plugins in FL Studio and check if Vital is there, you don’t want it on the list so repeat this step until it does not show there.
If it does not appear on the list anymore, close FL Studio & install Vital again, then open FL Studio and scan for Vital. It should appear there and should work as intended.
