Preprocessing?

[Alchmyhole]

I have been stuck on this for like 10 minutes with a black screen that just continues to say preprocessing , it used to run just fine a few weeks ago now I am having this issue. Anyone know a fix?

[Lauriel]

Same here. I played earlier today and everything was fine. Now, it's stuck preprocessing.

EDIT: It took a VERY long time, but finally was able to get to the character selection screen.

[Alchmyhole]

Originally posted by Lauriel:

Same here. I played earlier today and everything was fine. Now, it's stuck preprocessing.

EDIT: It took a VERY long time, but finally was able to get to the character selection screen.

I tried that and after an hour I just gave up I have been able to launch and play the game in the past without any issues, I have tried to play it on my ssd, reinstall, verify, everything to no help. The product to me is now unfortunately unplayable, and I have no idea why.

[coslie]

When I first bought the game it was doing that, super long preprocessing time. It was very frustrating, looked everywhere for a solution. Eventually, after maybe the fifth or sixth time I started the game, it just went away. Which seems weird.

I was pretty close to giving up on it, I mean who wants to wait 10 or 15 minutes to load each time?

[Alchmyhole]

Well I finally made it through the preprocessing once, and now it just sits loading on joining, left it for an hour still nothing, I cant refund it because I have had it since February, overall it is just disappointing that I for some reason am running into these issues. No matter what I try it just does not seem to work.

Originally posted by coslie:

When I first bought the game it was doing that, super long preprocessing time. It was very frustrating, looked everywhere for a solution. Eventually, after maybe the fifth or sixth time I started the game, it just went away. Which seems weird.

I was pretty close to giving up on it, I mean who wants to wait 10 or 15 minutes to load each time?

[@Ixxmantisxxl]

Originally posted by Alchmyhole:

I have been stuck on this for like 10 minutes with a black screen that just continues to say preprocessing , it used to run just fine a few weeks ago now I am having this issue. Anyone know a fix?

Move it to a SSD.

[Alchmyhole]

Originally posted by @Ixxmantisxxl:

Originally posted by Alchmyhole:

I have been stuck on this for like 10 minutes with a black screen that just continues to say preprocessing , it used to run just fine a few weeks ago now I am having this issue. Anyone know a fix?

Move it to a SSD.

Already have it on the SSD.

[FireShorts]

I'm also having this problem even though I've never had it before the last update. Pre-processing seems to take about 5 minutes every time I launch the game and it always wants to re-compile the shaders, even if I let it finish the last time I played. Game is on a pretty decent m.2 SSD so that shouldn't be an issue (and wasn't before).

[Jjazmin167]

Same issue with me and my bud @Jakfox12

[p4rs3C]

Worst Preprocessing ever

[Armin Wilde]

Are people using Nvidia cards? I noticed after the most recent Geforce driver update tingy, a few games I play hang on the startup screens, or logo screens. Just a theory thats probably wrong but its 2024, so who knows!

[catch22atplay]

Best Preprocessing ever.

Using Nvidia RTX 4080 and it takes like 1-3 seconds for preprocessing every tme i start the game here. Sometimes it's so fast i don't even see the message. Note i have shaders OFF in Steam. settings/downloads/enable shader pre-caching OFF. You may miss it in my video if you blink. Just rewind to 1st second of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCeSp6p4Lfc

Note was using Steam's recording ability. This requires the following launch options code to display RTSS overlay in Steam screenshots or recordings;

--keep-vulkan-layers

Now recompiling like after a game update or gpu driver update may take a bit comparatively. But we're talking well under 1 minute here.

Compiling shaders has never been an issue for me. I think Hogwarts took the longest last year at 4 minutes or maybe some other game. But i was using a 12 year old cpu a year ago. And while i had an nvme and modded bios to support it it was using a pci slot adaptor so was very slow. I do recall giving up after 4 minutes or so on 1 game. I hit alt/f4 and restarted it and it finished quickly. So people that have these compiling or preprocessing issues always seem very odd to me.

[Armin Wilde]

Originally posted by catch22atplay:

Best Preprocessing ever.

Using Nvidia RTX 4080 and it takes like 1-3 seconds for preprocessing every tme i start the game here. Sometimes it's so fast i don't even see the message. Note i have shaders OFF in Steam. settings/downloads/enable shader pre-caching OFF. You may miss it in my video if you blink. Just rewind to 1st second of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCeSp6p4Lfc

Note was using Steam's recording ability. This requires the following launch options code to display RTSS overlay in Steam screenshots or recordings;

--keep-vulkan-layers

Now recompiling like after a game update or gpu driver update may take a bit comparatively. But we're talking well under 1 minute here.

Compiling shaders has never been an issue for me. I think Hogwarts took the longest last year at 4 minutes or maybe some other game. But i was using a 12 year old cpu a year ago. And while i had an nvme and modded bios to support it it was using a pci slot adaptor so was very slow. I do recall giving up after 4 minutes or so on 1 game. I hit alt/f4 and restarted it and it finished quickly. So people that have these compiling or preprocessing issues always seem very odd to me.

Thats so strange! I run a 4060 as well and its a solid 5 minute wait to load mine personally haha. Sometimes Computers are too complicated for me lol

[catch22atplay]

Hm not sure what to tell you dude. Maybe try reinstalling your gpu driver. Perhaps use DDU to uninstall gpu drivers first. I also do NOT install or use geforce experience. And i don't use the new nvidia app. It's just under 9 seconds from hitting play on Steam to being able to choose my character.

[Alchmyhole]

Hmmmm.... The only thing I have done is use the nvidia and geoforce... xD