I can't seem to get my debug window to open?

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Essentially what it says in the title. Whenever I go to hit the Play Scene button, it pretends to load for a hot second and then nothing happens. The window doesn’t open. There are no error messages, nothing to suggest that there’s a problem, outside of the fact that it just doesn’t open. This is the first time this has happened to any of my projects, so I’m a little blindsided.

I’ve tried everything I can think of - clearing out the disk for some extra space, clearing the cache, even restarting and reopening Godot. I’m not really sure what’s wrong or how else I could try to fix this. I guess worse comes to worst I’ll have to make another project, but I’d rather not if I can avoid it.

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Can you describe better the scene? What are in the scene?

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Are you using windows and do you have a usb device plugged in

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I have several scenes, none of which open. Some are menus, some are character controllers and background test levels. None of them open. If you need me to send a screenshot in a bit I can do.

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I use win 11 and have several USB devices plugged in. It’s never affected a project before though.

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If you add print statements to a scene are they displayed?

I’m curious as to whether it is possible to pinpoint what is failing.

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Has that project run properly before? Is this something new? If so, what was worked on between the moment it worked and when it stopped.

A thing you can do is go to town with using the print() statement. Print every line if you have to until you find what’s going on. In a case like this, there isn’t much you can do. A breakpoint could also work, providing it gets there.

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Thanks guys! Idk what changed since I posted this topic but suddenly it decided to be functional when I went to go check this evening. I’m gonna chalk it up to a fluke/weird bug, because it’s worked up to now and has since been working, it was just having a moment today I guess? :person_shrugging:

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It’s a known issue that having certain USB peripherals on Windows can cause a project to take a really long time to load. I’m not sure if that was your issue but here’s the GitHub issue

I used to have to restart my computer when I ran into this issue but unplugging the USB device fixes it

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Thanks that’s actually really helpful! Which USB peripherals tend to trigger the bug he most frequently, so I know what to look out for?

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No clue but i have to unplug my headset to fix it. The github issue i linked says it has a solution but it doesn’t work for me :skull:

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Alright, well I’ll keep an eye on my peripherals from now on. Thanks again for the heads up :slight_smile: I hope you find a way to fix it without unplugging your headset.

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