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elks34
Newcomer
15 days ago

Game takes 20 minutes to verify shaders every time I launch

For about the past week or so, the game takes around 20 minutes to verify the shaders before I can play. 

It used to only take 2-3 minutes at max. I don’t know what changed recently (maybe the most recent patch?) but this is vastly diminishing my desire to play the game. 

My PC setup hasn’t changed at all over the past few weeks. 

Specs:

Intel i7-9700K @ 3.60 ghz

NVIDIA GeForce 4060

16 GB Ram 

Game is on an SSD.

  • From what I understand shader compilation is CPU intensive, and your processor falls somewhere in between the Minimum and Recommended specs for Veilguard. After your shader cache reached a certain threshold, it is possible it is acting as a bottleneck. Some people have also mentioned shader compilation behavior changing after certain patches, so that might have something to do with it.