Dolphin takes a long time to start

[ABSAhmad]

Hi everyone,

since I love the metroid games but don't have a Wii anymore I decided to use Dolphin to play the trilogy.

So I downloaded it and tried to use it but just starting Dolphin without actually loading a game takes >30 seconds.

I've tried the beta, dev & stable version. All of them exhibit the same behavior.

What I already tried to fix it:

* Delete the Dolphin folder in the Documents folder
* Changing compatibility mode to Windows 7
* Starting Dolphin with admin rights

My PC specs:
* Windows 10 21H2
* CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x 4.6GHz
* GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 TI FE
* RAM: 32GB
* Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0, NVMe M.2

Dolphin builds I've tested (deleted the dolphin folder in Documents before each test too):
* 5.0-15993 (Beta)
* 5.0-16083 (Dev)
* 5 (Stable)

It's also a fairly recent installation of Windows 10 with only a handful if things installed at the moment.

Does anyone have any idea what else I could try to fix this?

Any hints are greatly appreciated.