Compiling Shaders - 1 [FREEZING ON STARTUP]

[Death is A Businessman]

Hey all,

I updated my video card driver a few days ago and have played it since then with no issues. Today, (1/30) there was a 8 MB update for the game through Steam and I installed it.

Now when I fire up the game it shows the loading screen and makes it through the first part of loading assets before stopping at Compiling Shaders - 1. From there it just sits until I tab out and close it out through Task Manager.

I understand that others have opened threads with this same issue and I've even seen some come up with solutions to tackle them but none have worked for me so far. I have the latest driver for my video card and have the game fully updated.

I'm writing this post because I don't think it's something we can do on our end to fix it. I think this update may have caused the issue and we may just be stuck until these guys fix it.

But I am certainly open to suggestions.

Here are my specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
16 gb ram