Play in Editor and Stop Play in Editor lag way too long

Just using the standard FPS template with the starter content and when I enter or exit play in editor it takes 15-25 seconds just to play inside of the editor. Now when I’m playing or editing it runs incredibly smooth but the second I hit play it takes a while before I can play and likewise when I hit stop it takes just as long to exit play.

Hardware wise it shouldn’t be an issue but this is my current rig:

AMD ThreadRipper 3960x
128GB DDR4 3600 Ram
Nvidia 3090

1TB m.2 SSD for OS
2TB m.2 SSD for UE5

Any help would greatly be appreciated as I’m trying to get familiar with the new engine and have not had these kinds of issues before when I used the beta.

Try and launch the game and see if the lag persists

Still has issues. Doesn’t matter if I sim, launch as a game, etc. When I hit play the lag between playing the game, or stopping the game to resume editing is well over 20 seconds. I haven’t even added anything to the level, in fact I have removed some cubes and assets!

I figured out the issue.

Seems that the .ini files in my config were set to read only so it was causing issues.

Do you mean the config in project files or somewhere else? I changed them to not read only still happens for me