1.4 Update - Game Crashes on Shader Compilation

[Corvid]

After the update, the language changed in the pre-launch popups, and the game won't even manage to start compiling shaders now. I have no mods to cause issues. It just doesn't boot, now.

Specs:
Ryzen 9 7950X
64GB RAM
RTX 4090
Driver Version 572.83

[slater_491]

Crashes when trying to load previous saves. Currently unplayable

[Spartan®]

Found solution. Just delete UETols. And maybe other mods. Try to launch "clear" game without mods and other changed settings

[Tio Capitan]

can't we just get a working day on day 1; i wouldn't mind the usual bugs and glitches from the old days. ♥♥♥♥ dude this ♥♥♥♥ is getting worse relying on the devs to update and fix an unfinished mess. Next time just release when ready pls

[Relic]

Don't know if this will help any at all, but I was having the same issues as everyone else when it came to the shader comp screen. The game would crash and I would be in a state of confusion. Well, I went to check and see if after updating all my mods that if in-fact all of them were actually updated. I found that Simple Mod Loader was not in-fact updated. I proceeded to visit Nexus and download the newest version which was released yesterday and now my shaders are compiling like normal. The beginning screen text also all went back to english. Again, I don't know if this will help but it worked for me. Good hunting Stalkers.

[kozalius]

I have a 4090 and use driver 566.36

I do not have any issues, i recommend to not use any other driver that is newer then this.
This is 100% a Nvidia problem and they do not care, they only care about 50 series owners.

In every patch note they only refrence 50 series problems being fixes nothing for us last gen users.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237719/

I recommend trying to downgrade your driver and restart your system.

Hope that helps

[EMIL]

I had the same issue, getting ukraine language on startup then crashing on village-screen. I went into Stalker2>Content>Paks and deleted my modloader files:

Simple_ModLoader.pak
Simple_ModLoader.ucas
Simple_ModLoader.utoc

That's all I did. Then I started the game up again, and it works just fine now. My saves are not corrupt, they work just fine, and I've been playing for a few hours.

The only mod I had, was a flashlight customizer mod, and it's still in the mods folder. The mod stopped working as I removed the ModLoader but the game runs just fine. Albeit with the standard absolute dogsh*t flashlight lol

It is what it is.

[Gaming Griffin]

I had the same problem, tried everything then did a fresh install and went into the game files and deleted EVERYTHING, verified the game files and when it got all the files back i launched it again and for some reason it worked. i'm not saying it will work for everyone but it did for me so maybe it'll do it for others. best of luck stalkers.

[yarosh.brok]

Після останнього оновлення почало завжди викидати після запуску продовження гри. Вибиває ця помилка
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[Mx (Max)]

після 1.4 патчу гру не можливо запустити, навідь до менюшки не доходить, 5-10 секунд висить заставка, там де повинно бути компілювання шейдерів, а потім вивалюється з помилкою:
LoginId:651712bc40a64b4588514f8106dfd8e6
EpicAccountId:

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000000e0

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*перестановка гри не допомогла
*установка останніх драйверів (572.42) на відеокарту не допомогла
*модів немає

конфіг:
cpu: E5-2678v3
ram: 64Gb
NVME 1Tb (там де гра)
video: RTX3060 12Gb

[demanik™|spb|]

Originally posted by Mx (Max):

після 1.4 патчу гру не можливо запустити, навідь до менюшки не доходить, 5-10 секунд висить заставка, там де повинно бути компілювання шейдерів, а потім вивалюється з помилкою:
LoginId:651712bc40a64b4588514f8106dfd8e6
EpicAccountId:

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000000e0

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*перестановка гри не допомогла
*установка останніх драйверів (572.42) на відеокарту не допомогла
*модів немає

конфіг:
cpu: E5-2678v3
ram: 64Gb
NVME 1Tb (там де гра)
video: RTX3060 12Gb

Ответы бы выше прочитал, удали моды. Лично у меня вылетало до шейдеров из-за Simple_Modloader.

[Mx (Max)]

Originally posted by demanik™|spb|:

Originally posted by Mx (Max):

після 1.4 патчу гру не можливо запустити, навідь до менюшки не доходить, 5-10 секунд висить заставка, там де повинно бути компілювання шейдерів, а потім вивалюється з помилкою:
LoginId:651712bc40a64b4588514f8106dfd8e6
EpicAccountId:

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000000e0

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ntdll

*перестановка гри не допомогла
*установка останніх драйверів (572.42) на відеокарту не допомогла
*модів немає

конфіг:
cpu: E5-2678v3
ram: 64Gb
NVME 1Tb (там де гра)
video: RTX3060 12Gb

Ответы бы выше прочитал, удали моды. Лично у меня вылетало до шейдеров из-за Simple_Modloader.

Уже увидел, спс

[Metro1d-X]

Originally posted by Michael M:

Crashes during shader compilation can be a thermal issue. Specially when using an Intel CPU.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-cpu-crashes-what-you-need-to-knowmicrocode-to-blame-but-fix-incoming-this-month-alongside-two-year-extended-warranty/

if it was working fine before and it's crashing after an update, it's not a thermal issue.....update your mb bios to its latest version....

[Michael M]

Originally posted by Metro1d-X:

Originally posted by Michael M:

Crashes during shader compilation can be a thermal issue. Specially when using an Intel CPU.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-cpu-crashes-what-you-need-to-knowmicrocode-to-blame-but-fix-incoming-this-month-alongside-two-year-extended-warranty/

if it was working fine before and it's crashing after an update, it's not a thermal issue.....update your mb bios to its latest version....

The artical is targeting Intel CPU users affected by the microcode. And if BIOS isnt upgraded it will turn for the worse and finally not work at all.
In your case, using AMD CPU, you have the sollution in this thread and many others.
Remove your modinstaller and UE Tools and it will probably work for you.
If not... reinstall the game and play clean until the game is supporting mods.
What mods can do to a game that isnt supporting mods should be well known by now.
Good Luck

[Dj-Star]

Gamepass version works without problems

Win10
Ryzen 5700x3d
RX 7900XTX
32gb Ram

My friend had this problem at steam version. After the update 2 files was broken. Steam repair was his solution.

[Polish Electrician]

Originally posted by kozalius:

I have a 4090 and use driver 566.36

I do not have any issues, i recommend to not use any other driver that is newer then this.
This is 100% a Nvidia problem and they do not care, they only care about 50 series owners.

In every patch note they only refrence 50 series problems being fixes nothing for us last gen users.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237719/

I recommend trying to downgrade your driver and restart your system.

Hope that helps

Tried this, unfortunately doesn't work. I have had this really weird issue with Gray Zone Warfare and Starship Troopers Extermination also crashing on startup. All three, including this game, are UE5 games. Funny thing? STALKER 2 worked fine for me back when it released on Xbox gamespass, Starship Troopers worked when I bought on release. Oblivion Remastered (running on UE5) runs like garbage, but I just tried booting it up, and it works. Incursion Red River, also a UE5 game, runs smooth as butter as it always has.

This seems like a UE5 engine issue, or at least whatever versions GZW, STE and STALKER 2 are running. Because the driver you mentioned, that I rolled back to, was the driver I was running back when the game worked for me on release. I don't know what the hell is happening, but i'm losing my damn mind trying to play games that used to work for me. I've tried clearing caches, verifying install files, reinstalling. Seemingly everything and anything, and none of these three games work.

For the record, I just bought STALKER 2 on Steam, this is a fresh install, no old install files or mods to complicate anything. Specs are as follows:

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor 3.70 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Motherboard: MSi Tomahawk B450
Graphics: nVidia 4070 RTX