"Optimizing game files" at every start of the game

[GODzilla]

Anyone else? I guess it's some kind of shader compilation, but for me it happens every single time I start the game.

[imbrock]

Publicado originalmente por GODzilla:

With the same logic they could just skip any kind of shader compilation and let it compile during gameplay, because people will play and replay sections of the game anyway.

Thats what they were doing when the game first launched. People were complaining about the super aggressive shader stutter during gameplay as shaders compiled so they put this in to take the edge off a bit. Nobody wants shaders compiling during gameplay because it is slow as all hell.

[GODzilla]

I know and with how popular this topic had become even prior to the release of Jedi Survivor and with some other games setting good examples I was hoping for a thorough implementation, but instead we got this.

[Roadkill Junior]

i think everyone has this screen, everytime they launch the game

[Garrus]

Very frustrating that it does this every time. Also the opening movie should be skippable... so dumb.

[imbrock]

Publicado originalmente por GODzilla:

I know and with how popular this topic had become even prior to the release of Jedi Survivor and with some other games setting good examples I was hoping for a thorough implementation, but instead we got this.

The trouble is nobody that works for Respawn or EA is reading these forums at all. This is a place for gamers to vent rage into the void essentially.

[Garrus]

I have to say though, Jedi Survivor is awesome. It's a better Zelda game imo.

[GODzilla]

Publicado originalmente por Alistair:

Very frustrating that it does this every time. Also the opening movie should be skippable... so dumb.

Well at least this can be helped. Just erased the two mp4 files (or rename them) inside \Jedi Survivor\SwGame\Content\Movies

Source is the ever helpful pcgamingwiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi:_Survivor#Skip_intro_videos

[|DFG| Butterbrot_T5]

Publicado originalmente por GODzilla:

Publicado originalmente por Alistair:

Very frustrating that it does this every time. Also the opening movie should be skippable... so dumb.

Well at least this can be helped. Just erased the two mp4 files (or rename them) inside \Jedi Survivor\SwGame\Content\Movies

thx insane that this is not the default off/opt in settings, And we need to do workarounds from 2000s

adding white areas (ref. to Occlusion Culling) when moving fast is insane

[GODzilla]

Publicado originalmente por |DFG| Butterbrot_T5:

thx insane that this is not the default off/opt in settings, And we need to do workarounds from 2000s

adding white areas (ref. to Occlusion Culling) when moving fast is insane

Solution for the culling flashes can be found in this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1774580/discussions/0/3806152724338413913/?tscn=1690768880

[Ferromag]

There's no excuse for this. I knocked settings to low (which for some reason says it's custom settings every single time) and it takes just as long to compile shaders. How about... store the compiled shaders for your local settings? What a f***ing novel idea! Great game but this is a huge oversight.

[GODzilla]

Nah, it was not fixed by any patch before.

In the latest Digital Foundry analysis video they're calling Jedi Survivor "Still the worst triple-a pc-port of 2023" and especially mention that the shader compilation is only good for the very first start after a new driver or fresh game installation and that every subsequent showing does exactly...nothing.

It is just there as a reminder of the incompetence of this pc port, it seems. xD

[spideylech]

Ranting on Steam won't get the message to EA. EA Games has its own "Optimizing game files" at every start of the game discussion, and only a few people mention this issue. I might be naive, but if more people complain, maybe they'll do something. See: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/quot-Optimizing-game-files-quot-at-every-start-of-the-game/m-p/12528915/highlight/false#M1671

[stealthkiller22]

yeah dont get the point of it

[Silver Knight]

add this line to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\SwGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini

[ShaderPipelineCache.CacheFile]
LastOpened=Test

make sure to set it to "SwGame" once after a game or driver update

[stealthkiller22]

Publicado originalmente por GODzilla:

Publicado originalmente por Alistair:

Very frustrating that it does this every time. Also the opening movie should be skippable... so dumb.

Well at least this can be helped. Just erased the two mp4 files (or rename them) inside \Jedi Survivor\SwGame\Content\Movies

Source is the ever helpful pcgamingwiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi:_Survivor#Skip_intro_videos

gonna try this out i did something similar with assassin creed odyssey helped in load times heaps