Post update, initial loading time suddenly takes forever?

[vigokrell]

I've never had a problem loading the game up, usually takes maybe 10 seconds.

Post update today, suddenly the game takes literally like 5 minutes to load to main menu, every time I run it. I don't know what's happened. I have a decently high end Nvidia gaming rig, its running on an SSD, and it's never had any problems before. Seems like something in desperate need of a hot fix.

I've seen a few people complaining about the same thing on Reddit, but not in here, wondering how widespread this is?

[patrick68794]

Originally posted by Temple:

Originally posted by patrick68794:

the game does not recompile shaders every time you start the game. It does verify them though, which is something most newer games that compile shaders at start-up do

you're out of touch. before the update this never happened. its a bad coding glitch stop making excuses for incompetent devs.

lol a small number of people might be experiencing a bug that is causing shaders to become corrupted and so they need to be recompiled. Could be a bug with the latest Nvidia drivers and specific chipsets, could be a bug with the game itself (I don't have this issue), it could be a steam version specific issue (again, no issues on the game pass version for me), or it could be a combination of things. Don't blame developers for something that might not be their fault.

[David the Foodie]

Takes forever for me too. At least 5 mins to load during the satellite view.

[ExteiD]

Originally posted by vigokrell:

Originally posted by Temple:

you're out of touch. before the update this never happened. its a bad coding glitch stop making excuses for incompetent devs.

If you didn't see my post, try rolling back Nvidia drivers to last version. Fixed the problem for me.

Not works
My old drivers also compiling shaders forever...

[Destroy the meat bags (6/6)]

Yeah mine was always quick to load on startup unless i had a geforce update. Now every time i launch im at the pre-main menu load screen with the zeta halo shots for 5+ minutes every time.

[Destroy the meat bags (6/6)]

gotta be somethin to do with season 5 and a new nvidia driver dropping on the same day. I rolled my driver back to the one from 10/10 and the initial load time is much faster

[Duranu Lithdel]

Originally posted by Back to Front:

gotta be somethin to do with season 5 and a new nvidia driver dropping on the same day. I rolled my driver back to the one from 10/10 and the initial load time is much faster

I'll have to try this next time I get off the game, I just got back on to play a little more and I am currently waiting on shaders yet again lol

[Psycho]

i've had the same issue, loading for 20 minutes now
never had this problem before season 5 update

[Duranu Lithdel]

Originally posted by Psycho:

i've had the same issue, loading for 20 minutes now
never had this problem before season 5 update

I just got kicked out of a game right before winning, because the game hard locked when I looked down the scope of the rockets as an explosion went off, so I had to force close the game which is the first time I have ever had to do that with halo.

Decided to start the game back up, saw it wanted me to deal with shaders a 6th time and I just said nope and alt+f4'd it, I'm fine with playing something else until this gets sorted out

[Faux Chirac / oxym0ron]

Really horrible, please fix

[Edfinity]

Originally posted by Pyrocitor:

Originally posted by vigokrell:

Is everyone having the problem on Nvidia?

It seems that might be the case, just from the layout of complaints I've seen about it so far. Not seen Radeon mentioned alongside yet, except for the vsync issue.

It's not. Full AMD build here.

[Ferosnow95]

In agreement with this, they broke the V SYNC and Frame limiters in the game, Plus the shader comp every time you load the game is Ridiculous

[ExteiD]

Clean install of 537.58 Nvidia drivers helps a lot.
Shader compilation takes 30-40 seconds vs 5-7 minutes before.

[EndlessDepression]

Rollback your NVIDIA drivers...

[patrick68794]

Originally posted by ExteiD:

Clean install of 537.58 Nvidia drivers helps a lot.
Shader compilation takes 30-40 seconds vs 5-7 minutes before.

It only does shader compilation once if there isn't a problem. It verifies the shaders every time the game starts and if a problem is found then it recompiles them. There seems to be a problem with the latest Nvidia drivers causing corrupt shaders for some GPUs.

[Tasty Prey]

I ended up rolling back and now my load times are under a minute again which is neat.