Pre-loading shaders

[Soldier Boy]

Is this the new game now? Every time I open the game I gotta wait a decade for the shaders to load otherwise my game doesn't wanna run. Even after loading them it still runs terrible now like when I hover over any hero in the selection screen and they are not fully rendered ever and freeze the game to load the assets, is that not what happens when I open the game or when the game takes a year to load the shaders. Then whats the point of doing it (Even more than once, should be a one and done really)

[Eryn]

preloading shaders is such an old concept i dont know how these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ got away with including it in a title as big as this, the dev team is so piss poor when it comes to optimizing and they chose ue5 because it is the easiest and laziest engine

[EverTinkerer]

Im having the same issue, before this update the game was running fine. and your right it takes like 20 minutes to pre-load shaders. so now playing the game means i have to start it up and then stay busy for 20 mins with something else or ill experience the issues warned about

[𝕯𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆®]

same problem, takes 30min to pre compile shaders, before the update it was quite quick

[DreadedGhoul575]

Originally posted by 𝕯𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆®:

same problem, takes 30min to pre compile shaders, before the update it was quite quick

And even after that the game is still slow, then reboot, and another re-compile for 30 mins, which doesn't do anything to solve the perfomance, compared to the previous patches.

[Vagner]

I had a similar problem. I verified the integrity of the game files and updated my NVIDIA graphics card driver, and the problem was resolved.

(Before, I'd open the game, it would take a long time to compile the shaders, and it would still crash a lot, and every time I restarted it, I'd have to reload the shaders from scratch.)

[DreadedGhoul575]

Originally posted by Vagner:

I had a similar problem. I verified the integrity of the game files and updated my NVIDIA graphics card driver, and the problem was resolved.

(Before, I'd open the game, it would take a long time to compile the shaders, and it would still crash a lot, and every time I restarted it, I'd have to reload the shaders from scratch.)

I just did this and it fixed it, thank you!

[Wuyang'sBbyDdy]

try -PSOCompileMode=0 in the steam launch options. For the old preloading shading screen.

If this causes you to crash when playing, try -PSOCompileMode=1

and
Go to steam launch options and input: USEALLAVAILABLECORES
without dashes

[LuciferRiding]

Coming back in here to say the NVIDIA driver update was what it needed. There was a new update earlier in September, but they put out another one for Battlefield 6 and it was taking over an hour to preload shaders. Now I've updated the driver they're loaded before I even get into the game. I wish there was a button on the launch page telling you there's a new driver to update, because I don't have them set to do it automatically and it's causing problems for loads of people.