We recently upgraded our project from VS2008 to VS2012, and VMProtect from 2.10 to 2.13. What we see is the application start time (before entering "main" function) is noticeably longer with the protected executable. This behavior was not reproducible in VS2008 build of our project.
The only VMProject functions we call in our code are VMProtectBeginMutation/VMProtectEnd and VMProtectIsDebuggerPresent. Our .vmp file looks something like this:
I've sent the requested files to info@vmpsoft.com about a week ago. Have not heard any acknowledgment. Please let me know whether you guys received the files and any progress made. Thanks.