Game stuck on 'PRECREATING SHADERS' and crashing

[Drunk_Ninja123]

Managed to get into the game at first, then suffered a few crashes in the first mission - Have been trying to get back into it, but am now stuck on PRECREATING SHADERS when the game starts up - Have done the following so far:
Changed paging file (Min/Max for 16gb)
Updated NVIDIA drivers
Launched game in admin mode
Specs (I know its old):
16gb RAM
RTX 2070 SUPER
Ryzen 5 3600X

Anyone else having similar problems and/or found any solutions?

[L3mming]

I verified game files and that seemed to fix it.

[VelxraTV]

I was able to start the game by setting my bios to full default. Then I could launch the game to compile shaders. After that I set my bios to what they were before and the game is still running. So the crashing issue is related to the initial shaders when starting the game. I also turned off steam cloud sync and steam overlay as I heard it helps. Not an ideal solution. But atleast I can play with black bars now.

Mentioned it in my review that is still on going
https://steamcommunity.com/id/velxra/recommended/2183900?snr=1_5_9__402

Should also try to increase your shader cache to 10gb

[stalker]

Originally posted by Drunk_Ninja123:

Managed to get into the game at first, then suffered a few crashes in the first mission - Have been trying to get back into it, but am now stuck on PRECREATING SHADERS when the game starts up - Have done the following so far:
Changed paging file (Min/Max for 16gb)
Updated NVIDIA drivers
Launched game in admin mode
Specs (I know its old):
16gb RAM
RTX 2070 SUPER
Ryzen 5 3600X

Anyone else having similar problems and/or found any solutions?

same issue similar specs i just couldn't see the charter models

[Big Toast]

Originally posted by Drunk_Ninja123:

Managed to get into the game at first, then suffered a few crashes in the first mission - Have been trying to get back into it, but am now stuck on PRECREATING SHADERS when the game starts up - Have done the following so far:
Changed paging file (Min/Max for 16gb)
Updated NVIDIA drivers
Launched game in admin mode
Specs (I know its old):
16gb RAM
RTX 2070 SUPER
Ryzen 5 3600X

Anyone else having similar problems and/or found any solutions?

tab out of the game as soon as you launch it and wait for it to get to the menu screen

[Popckow]

Originally posted by Big Toast:

Originally posted by Drunk_Ninja123:

Managed to get into the game at first, then suffered a few crashes in the first mission - Have been trying to get back into it, but am now stuck on PRECREATING SHADERS when the game starts up - Have done the following so far:
Changed paging file (Min/Max for 16gb)
Updated NVIDIA drivers
Launched game in admin mode
Specs (I know its old):
16gb RAM
RTX 2070 SUPER
Ryzen 5 3600X

Anyone else having similar problems and/or found any solutions?

tab out of the game as soon as you launch it and wait for it to get to the menu screen

This actually worked for me, thank you!

Edit: after reaching the part where the death watch kill team captain (Who I assume is Titus) has to survive while the computer tries to launch the virus bomb, i stopped being able to see the tyranids, died, and could not see him. Went back to menu and pressed continue, worked, couldn't see anything happening in the following cutscene due to everything being invisible again. Will try closing and reopening again. If this happens again I will try that bios thing that Velxra mentioned

[VelxraTV]

I covered how I fixed my PC crashing issues on launch in my review

https://steamcommunity.com/id/velxra/recommended/2183900?snr=1_5_9__402