"Optimizing game files" every freaking time the game starts

[Tentax]

Ok, I have to say that after over 30 years of playing computer games, this one has me stumped..
How can it be that a supposedly AAA game starts up EVERY SINGLE TIME, as if it was the first time? It supposedly "optimizes shaders", asks for brightness, rtx, viewing distance, etc and plays the (after several dozen repetitions) annoying recap video every friggin' time you run the game. How is that possible, unless some noob of a programmer screwed up big time with the game's startup scripts ?! There's absolutely no point in doing that every time, unless the game fails to save any of the settings at any point. I would grudgingly accept such a stupid bug on day one of a big game release, but after the game being out for so long, this just hits me as either lazyness on the developer's part or (and I truly hope this isn't the case) nobody there giving a flying f@ck about whether or not their game works right.
Especially when players found a mostly working workaround with the config files in 10 seconds flat, I can't believe this can't be properly patched.

Unfortunately this isn't the only bug that's currently plaguing the game (constant crashes come to mind - and I own a high-end rig that's greatly over spec), but when the game crashes every now and then and you need to wait several minutes to restart and reconfigure the game, that eventually gets to you..


Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Respawn's previous work, but this is just ridiculous.
I'm usually not big on rants, but this one got to me big time..

[CJones]

Mine just does the "Optimizing game files" every time, without all the other stuff. But I still don't understand why it needs to do this every single time. I haven't changed my hardware or OS since I last played. Shouldn't the files still be optimized from last time? Why does it need to do this every time?

[CEPHY]

At least for me, the optimization is significantly faster after the first time.

That said, I still don't see what's there to optimize. I didn't update any drivers...

[JohnMars78]

After the initial run when you get all you've posted there, you should have only the "optimizing game files" screen followed by the main menu with "continue game" at the top.

Looks like there's something on your system preventing the game from either saving or accessing the saved game files, forcing the first run behavior.

See if "C:\Users\your username\Saved Games\Respawn\JediSurvivor" folder contains any files.
Check if any anti-virus sort of app is blacklisting the above path.

[cheewalcott]

i get the same issue, i even went as far as disabling windows defender at an admin level (leaving my pc wide open to viruses and hack attacks), my pc far exceeds the specs for 4k rtx.

i have disabled all rtx and other settings, i lowered the gfx to low, turned off ALL the stuff that makes it look great and devolved into potato mode, i even did the same on the nvidia control panel.

one thing i have noticed, when the game crashes its always the same error code, an error code thats connected to ram and vram utilization, another issue is that at one point the game just crashes at the exact same point over and over again.

i do file verification and some how ... the game has deleted 12 files, it downloads them and ...oh corrupt install files, i delete the downloaded cache and try again and ... corrupt download files and corrupt install.

i have had to uninstall and reinstall the game FIVE TIMES IN A WEEK, the optimisation thing whenever i start the game up is really p***ing me off.

i goto the title screen and the game is using 13gig of ram ... ON THE TITLE SCREEN, in game it shoots upto 24gig and then tanks to 6gig then rockets back up to 24+ gig.

i have the game on a 2tb high speed m.2 ssd samsung pro drive and it seems the game just wont want to run smoothly.

EA ... get your house in order and fix this freaking game

EDIT

One more thing .... STOP forcing origin launcher on a STEAM game, that thing uses 1.2gig of ram IDLE

[Tentax]

Good catch cheewalcott.
Since we're having the exact same issues, I ran a memory scan/trace and lo and behold: the files that are being corrupted on my system are the same files accessed by the "optimization" routine during game startup.

It looks like there's some memory leakage during the optimization routine, resulting in corrupted files. The final outcome is that several game files (including the startup configuration files) are either rendered unreadable or reset to "first launch state".
That means the game is forced to reset to its original state every single time. The only good thing is that this doesn't affect the savegame files.

Ironically, it seems like the error gets worse the more memory you have.
When I reduced my system RAM to the absolute minimum, the game actually ran better.

Go figure..

[cheewalcott]

good catch tantax

if its the same files that are being deleted / corrupted ... you would have thought EA would have sent out a hotfix at least to prevent it.

i just spent all day downloading the game, its now deleted the files again during start up, now i need to redownload 130 gig tomorrow as the game keeps crashing at the same spot now.

i tried the less system memory idea, unfortunately i'm not that lucky.

heres what my current system specs are

ryzen 9 5950x (16 core 32 thread)
32gig ddr4 3600mhz ram
1 x 500 gig samsung 980 m.2
1 x 1 tb samsung 980 m.2
1 x 2 tb samsung 970 evo m.2
rtx 3070 8 gig vram

as you can see .. i exceed the recommended specs.

[cheewalcott]

EA's reply to everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46KmyJipr0

[Darren Evans]

And it still stutters after this shader-compilation step on my i9 10900K, 64GB Ram and NVIDIA 4090 as though it's doing more real-time shader-compilation as it streams in new areas as you explore. Just another example of a minimum-viable-effort PC port from EA.

[⎛⎝⎛-||-⎞ ⎠⎞]

Originally posted by Darren Evans:

And it still stutters after this shader-compilation step on my i9 10900K, 64GB Ram and NVIDIA 4090 as though it's doing more real-time shader-compilation as it streams in new areas as you explore. Just another example of a minimum-viable-effort PC port from EA.

I wonder if your old gpu is bottlenecking it.

[Mr. Z]

Steam user @Poet had the only working solution:

"I was able to fix this by following these steps instead:

1. Right-click folder "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts" and click Properties. Uncheck the "read only" checkbox

2. Right-click the Jedi Survivor game files, mine were under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Survivor" and click Properties. Same as above, uncheck "read only" checkbox.

3. Start Jedi Survivor with the EA launcher, not Steam.

Once I did that, it worked every time, and could be launched with steam as normal.

Pro-tip as noted earlier in this thread: If you want to speed up startup even more, go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Survivor\SwGame\Content\Movies" and rename the two "Default_Statup" movie files. This causes the game to skip the startup movie sequences slightly"

I tried the other one where I had to change "GameUserSettings.ini" file but didn't work, only the above instruction did.

[Ducain]

Originally posted by Mr. Z:

Steam user @Poet had the only working solution:

"I was able to fix this by following these steps instead:

1. Right-click folder "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts" and click Properties. Uncheck the "read only" checkbox

2. Right-click the Jedi Survivor game files, mine were under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Survivor" and click Properties. Same as above, uncheck "read only" checkbox.

3. Start Jedi Survivor with the EA launcher, not Steam.

Once I did that, it worked every time, and could be launched with steam as normal.

Pro-tip as noted earlier in this thread: If you want to speed up startup even more, go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Survivor\SwGame\Content\Movies" and rename the two "Default_Statup" movie files. This causes the game to skip the startup movie sequences slightly"

I tried the other one where I had to change "GameUserSettings.ini" file but didn't work, only the above instruction did.

Sadly the read-only didn't work for me (playing direct from ea launcher no steam)
But this other method did that I found at this link on page 5
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1774580/discussions/0/3828665650633457001/?ctp=5
said to be originally from user SyCoREAPER

Although then the EA launcher "repaired" my install so I had to delete the startup movies again. I ignored further attempts for the launcher to "repair" the game.