Does shader compiling normally take this long?

[FireFiend]

I'm only at 15% in compiling the shaders for the past 30 minutes. I've never had it take this long?

[Greed Vii]

For real, mine seems to be going faster than you, but 30min later and not at 50%

[redleif]

its abnormally long, but its probably worth it. as long as its a one time thing only.

[FireFiend]

Thanks for the responses! Heres to hoping it is indeed worth it :)

[Simka]

issue being, shaders eat up potential refund-time.

[redleif]

just tested it. upon restart it verifies the cache which is way faster than compiling. this process hopefully eliminates any stutter from spontaneous shader loading however.

[NightOwl7]

I know, it's taking as long as downloading this game. What nonsense is this?

[Odi]

It verifies every time I launch. Any way to fix it?

[Skagger]

It's been more than 5 minutes for me, and I'm under 11%. It's likely to take ~45 minutes. As long as it's one-time only...

I agree with Simka. While I don't think I'll refund the game, someone who's on the fence and might refund would understandably find this very concerning.

[Insolentius]

Shader compilation on an i5-12400f lasted about 10 minutes. However, whenever I restart the game, it starts verifying the shaders, which again takes about 10 minutes with the CPU pegged at 100% the whole time. Others haver reported that shader verification lasts only a couple of seconds.

[Iamcorrupt]

R9 3900x and a 3070ti shader compilation took 8 minutes on first boot after an Nvidia update and was nearly instant on relaunch

[Holy Fool Sehrael]

Took me 10ish minutes too, but second start was much, much faster, so yeah it's more or less a one time thing^^

[Phishfood]

Originally posted by redleif:

its abnormally long, but its probably worth it. as long as its a one time thing only.

It's one more time every time you update your GPU driver.

[VirtualBC]

FIX: Go into your local files and delete the shaders_cache folder

[rofflesvanwagon]

The game is compiling the sins of the past as well to add to your gpu and cpu cycles

[Mvpsince91]

but does it count towards play time?