UE5.2.1 Long Editor Startup Time Due to AudioMixerPlatformInterface "Timeout [5000ms] waiting for h/w"

When the editor launches, it freezes with my viewport still black, but with icons visible.
After some time, my message log opens up but remains blank.
I pulled this log while the editor was frozen and it points to AudioMixerPlatformInterface as the culprit:
20231008 -UE5LongStartup.log (233.0 KB)

The sections where it goes over 5000ms are probably caused by me pausing via debugger to see if I could catch where execution was.

Actually, it occurred to me that maybe my debugging started this particular AudioMixerPlatformInterface Timeout state.
I tried again with au.OverrunTimeoutMSec 10 just to test, and I don’t even get AudioMixerPlatformInterface logs.

In fact, this may just be a sign that I need to clear my DDC.
The hang message I get now is:
[2023.10.08-17.47.26:698][ 1]LogDerivedDataCache: H:/Unreal Derived Data Cache: Maintenance finished in +00:01:43.050 and deleted 0 files with total size 0 MiB and 0 empty folders. Scanned 66964 files in 41621 folders with total size 16592 MiB.

Looks like I misreported. Please close this thread.

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This worked for me! I just deleted the folder inside my “Derived Data Cache” folder. Thanks!

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