Godot unresponsive when opening editor or running scene

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4.3 stable release

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Hello all, looking if someone can help me with this issue since I can’t seem to find anyone having posted it anywhere else. I am running the latest version of Godot, 4.3, but this problem also occurred in the stable release of 4.2.1. Whenever I open the engine to the project launcher, the window hangs for about 15-20 seconds. When opening a project, the same thing happens where there’s a long delay before it gets to the editor. Then, whenever I run a scene, it hangs for about 20-40 seconds before loading the scene, then hangs again when closing it.
I have updated all my drivers, updated windows, upgraded Godot versions, run the project from the command line with various flags like --rendering-driver opengl and --single-window to no avail. These problems basically make the engine impossible to use realistically.

Has anyone else seen this same behavior? I don’t know where to go from here

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Does it happen only for those two versions specifically, or does that include 4.2.1?
It’s the version I’m using on my PC.

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I just double-checked and I had the wrong version in my post, it’s actually 4.2.1 that I used previously that had the same issue. So both that and 4.3 stable releases are giving the same behavior for me. Strangely, the 4.2.1 version worked for a while then began giving this behavior for old and new projects alike. I’ll fix the post with the right version.

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Try deleting the .godot folder in your projects, which will be regenerated, so don’t worry about it, it just holds old data and .import info. and can get quite heavy/f if you’re constantly importing and replacing.

In fact, to test this something like this without deleting, try removing all projects from godot and try a fresh copy with no projects, and see if it persists.

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I appreciate your suggestion. I tried deleting that .godot folder from every project then rebooting the launcher but I found it didn’t help the problem on booting the launcher, opening a project, or running a scene.

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When you launch Godot from the command line, does it spit out any messages?

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When running the verbose option, I received this before manually closing the program.

Godot Engine v4.3.stable.official.77dcf97d8 - https://godotengine.org
TextServer: Added interface "Dummy"
TextServer: Added interface "ICU / HarfBuzz / Graphite (Built-in)"
Native OpenGL API detected: 3.3: NVIDIA - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
NVAPI: Init OK!
NVAPI: Disabled OpenGL threaded optimization successfully
NVAPI: Disabled G-SYNC for windowed mode successfully
Using "winink" pen tablet driver...
Shader 'CanvasSdfShaderGLES3' SHA256: a6814f418959e89a398e62ba82684a31f5b9835f5607cbb94665805a5eb123f3
Shader 'SkeletonShaderGLES3' SHA256: f10e94c5b66e9c9dd9d7dc135ec5b86129a72f0c2abc87f5d9802134d2314e5e
Shader 'ParticlesShaderGLES3' SHA256: 3b0f1a1c1c7c65120e76a0ce32dad3ef472e921a51d198f930eaecb570157ab8
Shader 'ParticlesCopyShaderGLES3' SHA256: 648561d0b1c78f5b248d01059d38394394a5bfad202087dc0e656f19a6cd0917
Shader 'CopyShaderGLES3' SHA256: d824e7c48ceaa787c4b75dc87014e6d889c3de73ac49aa1d264023d2e17528ab
Shader 'CubemapFilterShaderGLES3' SHA256: 2b92799029fec244ea0b59069619cb15583af7e8eb2ffdc06432963458dc40ef
Shader 'GlowShaderGLES3' SHA256: bbcdecdf1ea3e70818212c6f418afbcf5411d5b41755c6981d8485ec1e4344f3
Shader 'PostShaderGLES3' SHA256: 1a9e59d63ec5bac7b55ae8c023c27fcb451822e7e9e08ae8eb029804d26108f6
Shader 'CanvasShaderGLES3' SHA256: e4352de1bf691220063540dd7b1900674833b7c4c0122122c3ce97473ccce5cc
Shader 'CanvasOcclusionShaderGLES3' SHA256: e6d7472928e60a510e8fd0ca737bb5c1420b35387984ab38b82dcc527b92b6ab
Shader 'SceneShaderGLES3' SHA256: f437d9320c3a35f9b8f16b3d459b01170419eaeb43f55b4d79aa4c9beefffa29
Shader 'SkyShaderGLES3' SHA256: 389ca45fecd9cea460374581d8d27dfcee9ec6645d39ec7570b8096ad3104225
OpenGL API 3.3.0 NVIDIA 566.36 - Compatibility - Using Device: NVIDIA - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
WASAPI: Activated output_device using IAudioClient3 interface
WASAPI: wFormatTag = 65534
WASAPI: nChannels = 2
WASAPI: nSamplesPerSec = 48000
WASAPI: nAvgBytesPerSec = 384000
WASAPI: nBlockAlign = 8
WASAPI: wBitsPerSample = 32
WASAPI: cbSize = 22
WASAPI: mix_rate = 48000
WASAPI: fundamental_period_frames = 480
WASAPI: min_period_frames = 480
WASAPI: max_period_frames = 480
WASAPI: selected a period frame size of 480
WASAPI: detected 2 channels
WASAPI: audio buffer frames: 480 calculated latency: 10ms

TextServer: Primary interface set to: "ICU / HarfBuzz / Graphite (Built-in)".
CORE API HASH: 966092234
EDITOR API HASH: 444927587
EditorSettings: Load OK!
EditorTheme: Generating new theme for the config '66886095'.
EditorTheme: Generating new icons.
EditorTheme: Generating new fonts.
EditorTheme: Generating new styles.
Loaded system CA certificates
EditorSettings: Save OK!
Editing project: C:/Users/hatha/new-project
EditorSettings: Save OK!
XR: Clearing primary interface
XR: Removed interface "Native mobile"
XR: Removed interface "OpenXR"

Does anything look out of the norm?

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After following a long trail of issues within Godot, I came upon this: Godot slow to open, slow to edit, slow to launch simple game [Windows, caused by specific USB peripherals] · Issue #20566 · godotengine/godot · GitHub.

Following this and some trial and error, I discovered that when I unplug my keyboard and then plug it back in, everything works just fine. I can’t really say that I understand it, but I’m happy to know there’s some sort of “solution” to this…

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This is absolutely crazy of how unrelated things apparently interact.

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