WARNING. New Nvidia Driver caused Long Preparing shaders bug.

[Spefix]

I've installed the latest Nvidia GameReady driver today and it caused a long Preparing shaders loading time on The First Descendant. It never happened to me before when I had The First Descendant GameReady Nvidia driver installed.

Maybe this happens only to me so take it with a grain of salt.

[Noop]

I'm on a 2080S and have no issues without updating my drivers. I suspect I could probably update and be fine but I'm aware that drivers might ♥♥♥♥ with you, so I never update them just befor a new game hits.

Might just be me and my tinfoil hat but I rather not bother with downgrading my drivers. But that said a 2080S is a little older so drivers will be much more optimized with less issues.

[chuchuTrain]

Mine isnt long but, "shader loading" almost every screen - since latest 2 nvidia drivers.

[Spefix]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Noop:

I'm on a 2080S and have no issues without updating my drivers. I suspect I could probably update and be fine but I'm aware that drivers might ♥♥♥♥ with you, so I never update them just befor a new game hits.

Might just be me and my tinfoil hat but I rather not bother with downgrading my drivers. But that said a 2080S is a little older so drivers will be much more optimized with less issues.

The Preparing shaders... loading screen became super long on my RTX 4060 when entering the game and switching areas on the map since installing the latest update, I might go for a downgrade.

[nostrovus]

I feel bad for people who do the right thing and update. On the other hand I haven't updated in a long time and my gameplay is smooth.

[Zylow]

I kept the Game Ready drivers from 2 weeks ago. I've had no issues with the game since the patch, other than the usual 2 sec freezes that everyone still has.
RTX 3080ti with drivers 556.12

[Noop]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spefix:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Noop:

I'm on a 2080S and have no issues without updating my drivers. I suspect I could probably update and be fine but I'm aware that drivers might ♥♥♥♥ with you, so I never update them just befor a new game hits.

Might just be me and my tinfoil hat but I rather not bother with downgrading my drivers. But that said a 2080S is a little older so drivers will be much more optimized with less issues.

The Preparing shaders... loading screen became super long on my RTX 4060 when entering the game and switching areas on the map since installing the latest update, I might go for a downgrade.

Yea honestly if I had an up to date GPU I would def not upgrade my drivers. I saw issues like this in quite a few recent games and I would rather dodge them xD I think Elden Ring DLC also had issues which is wild cuz it was just a DLC.

[Noop]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FoxyRaven:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spefix:

I've installed the latest Nvidia GameReady driver today and it caused a long Preparing shaders loading time on The First Descendant. It never happened to me before when I had The First Descendant GameReady Nvidia driver installed.

Maybe this happens only to me so take it with a grain of salt.

Its a thing first time you log into the game and load a few times untill its at 100% so when you update you drivers its like a new first time, when it reach 100% it should stop :)

That would be nice but if you read through this forums that is obviously not the case.

[Spefix]

556.12 aka The First Descendant GameReady Nvidia Gamedriver works perfectly fine.
560.70 aka the latest Nvidia Driver caused the game to load shaders forever.

[Spefix]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FoxyRaven:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spefix:

I've installed the latest Nvidia GameReady driver today and it caused a long Preparing shaders loading time on The First Descendant. It never happened to me before when I had The First Descendant GameReady Nvidia driver installed.

Maybe this happens only to me so take it with a grain of salt.

Its a thing first time you log into the game and load a few times untill its at 100% so when you update you drivers its like a new first time, when it reach 100% it should stop :)

I launched the game numerous times now, it's taking forever to load shaders.

[Zylow]

usually it's a good idea to find a drivers on the forums that is universally liked by most people and stick with it for a good while. I've often kept a driver for months due to garbage drivers was pushed out.
Not all NVIDIA drivers are created equal that's for sure.

[chuchuTrain]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FoxyRaven:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Spefix:

I've installed the latest Nvidia GameReady driver today and it caused a long Preparing shaders loading time on The First Descendant. It never happened to me before when I had The First Descendant GameReady Nvidia driver installed.

Maybe this happens only to me so take it with a grain of salt.

Its a thing first time you log into the game and load a few times untill its at 100% so when you update you drivers its like a new first time, when it reach 100% it should stop :)

Nope, its always loading shaders.... everytime i open and close the game...
(though just once per game restart)
My shader cache limit is set to "unlimited" btw.. so...

[JHS_]

Its not a bug. When you update drivers it clears the NVIDIA shader cache to make sure there are no incompatibilities with new driver version.

The new driver is actually good in many games. Some lately NVIDIA drivers have been very buggy in many games.

EDIT: have you double checked you have cache still unlimited? Maybe driver update overwrote the setting?

EDIT2: The new first descendant hotfix today also caused game to load lot of shaders again, so did yesterdays update. So maybe not related to driver update at all, but game updates instead.

[Shogun]

curious enough i've had the same issue

[Min/Max]

I'm using 560.70 and no issue here on my RTX 4090

[JHS_]

I just started game 2nd time today.

1) First time was after todays hotfix. -> loaded shaders
2) 2nd time less than half sec shader loading. So its not a driver bug.

Maybe you didnt notice there was new update to TFD today?

EDIT: The easy anticheat screen stays sometimes very long time before starting the game though.