Godot extremely slow after crash

KKattoor · 23 Jun

Hey!

I'm learning Godot (v4.4.1 stable) through a Udemy course.

While following the tutorial, I had Godot open and minimized. When I brought it back up, it immediately crashed - Windows asked me to kill the process because it wasn't responding.

Since then, starting Godot became painfully slow. It now takes about a full minute just to show the project selector. Before this crash, everything was working fine. I was simply alt-tabbing between the course video and Godot. I didn't change anything, and now it's consistently slow and sometimes crashes again.

What I've tried so far:

deleting both AppData/Local/Godot and AppData/Roaming/Godot
rebooting multiple times
a different version (v4.3 stable)
using this command (suggested by ChatGPT): godot4 --disable-crash-handler --no-window --single-window --rendering-driver opengl3 --verbose --tablet-driver none

Verbose log (before hanging for about 1 minute):

WorkerThreadPool: 16 threads, 4 max low-priority.
Godot Engine v4.4.1.stable.official.49a5bc7b6 - https://godotengine.org
TextServer: Added interface "Dummy"
TextServer: Added interface "ICU / HarfBuzz / Graphite (Built-in)"
Native OpenGL API detected: 3.3: NVIDIA - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVAPI: Init OK!
NVAPI: Disabled OpenGL threaded optimization successfully
NVAPI: Disabled G-SYNC for windowed mode successfully

Then it prints:

Using "winink" pen tablet driver...

Followed by shader logs and OpenGL device info. Eventually it loads fonts, styles, etc.

I've searched GitHub issues but haven't found anything relevant.

I'm completely stuck. Any ideas on what else to try?

Toxe · 23 Jun

Kattoor Open the Windowsw Task Manager check the CPU and GPU usage. Is your system busy doing something else? Also are other programs (like games) running fine?

KKattoor · 23 Jun

Someone in the Godot Discord just helped me.

By performing the following steps, my issue has been resolved:

Disconnect USB mouse (Razer Viper pro in my case)
Use your keyboard to open Godot
Reconnect USB mouse

After doing this just once, I can open Godot again without any problems!

--- edit
Might be related to https://docs.godot.community/about/troubleshooting.html#the-editor-or-project-takes-a-very-long-time-to-start

ArDanZ11 · 24 Jun

That makes no sense...

I would think that Toxe was right, as I have had the same problem running, using, and exporting games with Godot.

KKattoor · 24 Jun

ArDanZ11 I agree that it doesn't make sense, but that actually did the job
I monitored the CPU and GPU usage, but there was nothing out of the ordinary.

kuligs2 · 25 Jun

Kattoor but you didnt try to delete .godot dir inside your project? Maybe it was hangged on rebuilding th eproject or something?