Shader Cache?

[VahanBio]

Am I the only one who's having shader caching process every time I try to open the game?

[Patricia Hapon]

No, it seem to happen to quite a lot of people, myself included actually.

[Tomoko]

it happens to everyone. it just gets faster on the next launches

[VahanBio]

yep it gets faster but still.. But I think they are trying to save a space in our storage and remove cache after closing the game.

[Rasfahan]

Ridiculous. Space costs nothing nowadays. My time is infinitely valuable.

[꧁༒☬ GΞX ☬༒꧂]

Originally posted by Rasfahan:

Ridiculous. Space costs nothing nowadays. My time is infinitely valuable.

Bullsh*t. Harddrives and SSDs are still expensive, especially NVMEs are still unobtainium for most people.

As for the majority, people are using either 128 or 256GB SSDs as their main drive for their OS. Every tiny space will be squeezed out for essential products, updates, drivers and Co.
There is no space for continous file-trashing processes, especially for ALWAYS REWRITING and thus wearing out the SSD in a quicker term. Games should cache their stuff there where the game is located at (in my case another SSD - 1TB, dedicated for large game files), or at least put their stuff into Roaming, which can be moved to another drive without issues (not possible with Local or LocalLow).

If you didn't get it: ProgramData save logics cannot be rewritten by the user. This is only in hands of the developers and their decision where to cache those files. UE has the options to change that, even in 4.27.XX, which they did not care about at all.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by ꧁༒☬ GΞX NӨVΛ ☬༒꧂:

Originally posted by Rasfahan:

Ridiculous. Space costs nothing nowadays. My time is infinitely valuable.

Bullsh*t. Harddrives and SSDs are still expensive, especially NVMEs are still unobtainium for most people.

Umm no, they are not. Youre uninformed clearly. Ssds and nvmes are cheaper than ever . If you can't afford one then you cannot afford to buy games.

[꧁༒☬ GΞX ☬༒꧂]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by ꧁༒☬ GΞX NӨVΛ ☬༒꧂:

Bullsh*t. Harddrives and SSDs are still expensive, especially NVMEs are still unobtainium for most people.

Umm no, they are not. Youre uninformed clearly. Ssds and nvmes are cheaper than ever . If you can't afford one then you cannot afford to buy games.

"Cheaper than ever", SSDs are around 1€ for 10GB, NVME is 1.50€ - 2€ for 10GB.
It was 50c for 10GB SSD and 1.20€ for 10GB NVME. I am the one being "clearly uninformed", while you are not tracing the prices of respective productlines? Sorry to ruin your day, but hardware got more expensive since the introduction of a nasty little virus and a bloody b*stard initiating a war.
This ain't a 3-month period of "it got cheaper, not worth the mention of a price increase" kind of economical behavior. Things are getting more expensive over a single year period. At this point, it is called "inflation".

And don't judge about people and what they can afford and what they cannot. This was not and is not the point in this context. Stick to the subjective aspect: Prices are increasing, no matter how much you want to ignore that fact.

[Mr Po Poad]

hey just saw this while looking for a fix for green bars on the book menu but here's a NVMe ssd 1tb for 57.99 as of march 1 2023 https://www.newegg.com/team-group-mp34-1tb/p/N82E16820331309 so if you can afford hogwarts legacy you can afford this

[Skylers Meth]

if the short shader caching up on every load up of the game actually stopped the game stuttering in hogsmeade or hogwarts i'd be all for it, but it bloody well doesn't. Getting 150fps + in both places, but can still feel the stutters going on

[Marissa]

When the game was on a normal HD (where Steam games get normally installed) it was annoying. But a friend of mine moved it to the SDD drive it is very acceptable.

But in other games as Nomans Sky it only happens with updates of the game.

[deezjavu]

Originally posted by Marissa:

When the game was on a normal HD (where Steam games get normally installed) it was annoying. But a friend of mine moved it to the SDD drive it is very acceptable.

Well, the Shader Cache is not in the game directory, so that has nothing to do with your friends game improvement, meaning it's not the Shader Cache itself that was the problem.

Regardless of where you install the game, the Hogwarts Legacy Shader Cache is located in "C:\ProgramData\Hogwarts Legacy" combined with the location for NVidia's Cache, which is "C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache".

[GNORK]

Originally posted by ꧁༒☬ GΞX NӨVΛ ☬༒꧂:

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Umm no, they are not. Youre uninformed clearly. Ssds and nvmes are cheaper than ever . If you can't afford one then you cannot afford to buy games.

"Cheaper than ever", SSDs are around 1€ for 10GB, NVME is 1.50€ - 2€ for 10GB.
It was 50c for 10GB SSD and 1.20€ for 10GB NVME. I am the one being "clearly uninformed", while you are not tracing the prices of respective productlines? Sorry to ruin your day, but hardware got more expensive since the introduction of a nasty little virus and a bloody b*stard initiating a war.
This ain't a 3-month period of "it got cheaper, not worth the mention of a price increase" kind of economical behavior. Things are getting more expensive over a single year period. At this point, it is called "inflation".

And don't judge about people and what they can afford and what they cannot. This was not and is not the point in this context. Stick to the subjective aspect: Prices are increasing, no matter how much you want to ignore that fact.

just curious where u live
here in austria at least a samsung 980m2 1tb costs around 60€ (i bought mine last year for 100)
and u can find other 1tb for as low as 45€

(of course can 50€ be expensive for some, if that's the case, they prob don't have a PC or this game anyway)

[Simbolic]

It's loads the shaders every time it's not just you.

[Tjelfe]

Originally posted by GNORK:

just curious where u live
here in austria at least a samsung 980m2 1tb costs around 60€ (i bought mine last year for 100)
and u can find other 1tb for as low as 45€

(of course can 50€ be expensive for some, if that's the case, they prob don't have a PC or this game anyway)

Legit. Amazon has M.2 Samsung 980 1TB for 65,90€ in Germany.

[VadeN]

Originally posted by VahanBio:

Am I the only one who's having shader caching process every time I try to open the game?

Yes, everyone has this unless you're using a mod like this[www.nexusmods.com]
Just make sure to read the instructions.