quickbooks sdk slow adding customers QB Enterprise 13 - quickbooks

QBFC11 and QBFC12, VB.Net 2008, QB ES 13
We have seen this a couple of times in different applications at different clients.
When our program adds a customer it can take up to 8 minutes each.
One customer seen this fell back to a prior QB version and the problem immediately dissappeared.
Is there a QB patch that fixes this?
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