Game Crashes While Compiling Shaders After 1.1 Update

[Hey Look It's Ace]

I've seen other discussion posts surrounding this topic with similar issues and hopefully this thread can serve to aid others in a similar situation. Most in response to other posts say verify your files, don't use mods, or disable any optimization programs. I verified my files multiple times before and after several re-downloads of the game. I do no have any mods installed nor a mod folder and I do not have any optimization programs active as I turned the one I had off.

I even went as far as a manual file wipe in the game folder but after using every thinkable method including going to my local app data to clear my shader cache, it did not work. I did see however others saying to clear the shader cache for NVIDIA in this case in local low however I do not have anything of the sort there on my end, although others may have it themselves so it's a possibility.

I am open to ideas to solve this so if anyone wants to discuss this, please do at your earliest convenience.

[ZgredPOL]

+1 same here

[Hey Look It's Ace]

Publicado originalmente por Vikk1997:

I use an AMD graphics card, and this solution worked for me:

1. Press the Windows key + I to open Settings and navigate to System > Storage > Temporary files.
2. Check the box for DirectX Shader Cache and remove it.
3. Restart your PC.

If the game crashes or gets stuck at Compiling Shaders, try launching it again. It worked for me on the third attempt. I hope this helps.

This here is something I have in fact not tried, I'll try it and come back to say if it worked or not.

[valka]

Game crashed 3 times on compiling shaders. Every time had to clean directx cache to get further. Eventually got to the game. Crashing in game also, especially when have personal box open. Worked without crashing once before the update! New bugfix needed soon!
72h playtime
AMD RTX7950XTX
AMD 5800X3D
32GB RAM

[Chip Chipperson]

+1

[Funambulia]

Well I succeed in launching the game after restarting it again and again after almost two hours but now it keep getting stuck in the shader compilation (tried to clean shaders and verify files but it doesn't help), guess i'm going to try to reinstall the game

[Fobia_bg]

Clearing temporary files (all boxes checked except windows updates) and starting the game on window mode worked for me

[Hey Look It's Ace]

Alright so after testing the option I said I would, it did in fact work on it's own sort of. It had stutters and stopped a few times before completely freezing and I did it one more time and it loaded in fully. To make sure it was a solid method, I reloaded the game and it got far then froze.

With these mixed results, I decided to test something. I ran the NVIDIA app and went to check on the auto-optimization in the drivers section on the left panel. After this, I used a separate optimization program and used it to target Stalker 2 like I did before the update and chose the balanced setting like I did before and so far I have had back to back success when booting up the game in terms of getting past the compiling shaders.

[Hey Look It's Ace]

I'd imagine what I did cannot be replicated everywhere and due to an unfortunate lack of pinpointing evidence, my best guess is the combination in which I did things helped.

[Afro]

1.1 was fine 1.1.1 stuck on shader and cannot get into the game

[Flyntlock]

Same . Could play before, Now crash on loading shaders.

[Bleu]

same got 1 crash loading, and i just got a PC hard crash right now had to restart the PC, never had it before the patch, 120gb patch still broken lol

[Kemushi]

Yeah, stuck on compiling shaders. Hope it gets fixed. 50+ hours in, and I was having a great time.

[Firefly]

The big patch worked for me but there was a small one after that (less than 5mb) and now I'm stuck at the shader compiling screen. Garbage of the Year!

[Hedless]

Ditto 1.1 was okay 1.1.1 now stuck or crashing during Shaders.

[Hey Look It's Ace]

I did some continued tests and I can unfortunately confirm that it isn't a completely reliable method so I've tried a mod from Nexus from the Stalker 2 page I've heard about before called No Shader Warmup. The mod author is KZekai. It worked for me so far. It bypasses the shader compiling loading screen and did not appear to affect the game visually by doing so.