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_slickyfats-69
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4 years ago
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"Loading and Compiling Shaders" every single time I run the game

Every single time I open the game it has to "load and compile shaders". This takes about 5 minutes and happens every single time I open the game.  In season 9 it just gave me a black loading scree...
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_slickyfats-69
New Rookie
4 years ago

I dunno if you tried this yet but it worked for me. If you have an Nvidia GPU - 

1. Install LATEST drivers for GPU

2. Open Nvidia Control Panel - 3d Options - turn shader cache OFF, click apply

3. Turn shader cache BACK ON, click apply

4. Restart cpu - run apex, let it compile the shaders one last time. 

I did that and haven't had any problems at all - the game runs better than ever before, I couldn't believe it was a driver issue. 

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FlumFl0m
4 years ago

Yea i've done these steps like 10 times now, since 2 days ago, it fixes it temporarily then randomly boom back to the same screen. Honestly does my head in

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