Codebase Indexing Loading, Slow Responses

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Codebase indexing is stuck on “Loading…” and AI responses are taking up to two minutes. It’s not due to slow requests, I have over 300 fast ones left. Disabling HTTP/2, as the docs suggest, made no difference. I have formatted my machine, I also completely uninstalled cursor deleting all the folders and files… obviously no fix. A recent response took 1:29 on “generating” and then stopped without any output. This makes the app unusable and incredibly frustrating.

Other users have reported similar problems, but no one has found a solution yet. Some mentioned receiving “handshake failed” errors, which I was experiencing earlier too. Now it’s back to displaying “Loading…” continuously without progress.

The really strange thing is I tested it on my wife’s laptop using our same home network and it works fine there!

I uploaded a video on Google Drive to demonstrate the codebase indexing stuck on loading and also the slow AI response: video link

Version: 0.48.7 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 1d623c4cc1d3bb6e0fe4f1d5434b47b958b05870
Date: 2025-04-02T05:04:28.547Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

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same here. at first i thought it was just heavily loaded LLMs (eg. gemini) but its hanging now for all requests.

basically unusable. Cursor status page still shows everything is fine?

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Maybe this is helpful to the cursor team:

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Error: checking file existence: Error: Unable to resolve filesystem provider with relative file path ‘cursor.aiSettings:cursor/aiSettings’
(anonymous) @ workbench.desktop.main.js:931

[Extension Host] (node:14196) ExperimentalWarning: Use ‘importAttributes’ instead of ‘importAssertions’
(Use ‘Cursor --trace-warnings …’ to show where the warning was created)
Ikr @ workbench.desktop.main.js:2371

Extension Host
workbench.desktop.main.js:4922

Error checking file existence: Error: Unable to resolve filesystem provider with relative file path ‘cursor.aiSettings:cursor/aiSettings’
(anonymous) @ workbench.desktop.main.js:931

Activating extension ‘anysphere.cursor-retrieval’ failed: The specified module could not be found.
\?\c:\Users\lucas\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app\node_modules@anysphere\file-service-win32-x64-msvc\file_service.win32-x64-msvc.node.
SonExtensionActivationError @ workbench.desktop.main.js:2384

Error refreshing background composers ConnectError: [Unauthenticated] Error
at t (workbench.desktop.main.js:2405:13070)
at async Object.listBackgroundComposers (workbench.desktop.main.js:38:15147)
at async refreshBackgroundComposers (workbench.desktop.main.js:2405:7887)

Extension host (LocalProcess pid: 14196) terminated unexpectedly. Code: 184457440726358100000, Signal: unknown
(anonymous) @ workbench.desktop.main.js:4918

An iframe which has both allow-scripts and allow-same-origin for its sandbox attribute can escape its sandboxing.
webWorkerExtensionHostIframe.html:1

[Extension Host] (node:3848) ExperimentalWarning: Use ‘importAttributes’ instead of ‘importAssertions’
(Use ‘Cursor --trace-warnings …’ to show where the warning was created)
Ikr @ workbench.desktop.main.js:2371

Extension Host
workbench.desktop.main.js:4922

Activating extension ‘anysphere.cursor-retrieval’ failed: The specified module could not be found.
\?\c:\Users\lucas\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app\node_modules@anysphere\file-service-win32-x64-msvc\file_service.win32-x64-msvc.node.
SonExtensionActivationError @ workbench.desktop.main.js:2384

workbench.desktop.main.js:4918 Extension host (LocalProcess pid: 14196) terminated unexpectedly. Code: 18446744072635810000, Signal: unknown

Bb @ workbench.desktop.main.js:4918

webWorkerExtensionHostIframe.html:1 An iframe which has both allow-scripts and allow-same-origin for its sandbox attribute can escape its sandboxing.

workbench.desktop.main.js:2371 [Extension Host] (node:3848) ExperimentalWarning: Use importAttributes instead of importAssertions (Use Cursor --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)

Ikr @ workbench.desktop.main.js:2371

workbench.desktop.main.js:4922 Extension Host

workbench.desktop.main.js:2384 Activating extension ‘anysphere.cursor-retrieval’ failed: The specified module could not be found. \?\c:\Users\lucas\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app\node_modules@anysphere\file-service-win32-x64-msvc\file_service.win32-x64-msvc.node.

$onExtensionActivationError @ workbench.desktop.main.js:2384

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Update

It’s working now. Not sure what changed, maybe the Cursor team fixed something, or something else happened. The only thing I did differently was install the latest Visual C++ Redistributable.