I don't find that, Platinum loads slightly faster than x3 for me. I'm up to about 250 instruments loaded into Kontakt 5 VSTs , several GB worth of memory, about 50 instruments in G player VSTs, about 60 total tracks, though only 4 audio tracks, 3 minute piece -- all loads in 37 seconds, Platinum, or 45 seconds, x3, which seems quite satisfactory.