"Optimizing game files" at every start of the game

Every single time.. and with afterburner running you can see it's not actually doing much of anything. The first optimization was the actual one it seems. Now it's just a video running for no reason or so it seems. 

Whenever I start the game, I need to go through optimizing game files and the initial configuration. Seems like there is a problem with saving this information.

Also, about half of the time I experience a crash to desktop during optimizing game files.

This issue seems to be months old, is there a fix out there yet?

Same issue, I have the install files on a different drive to c drive so not sure if this is the issue somehow.

I have the Steam version, meaning that Steam loads, calling up the EALink, which launches Survivor. I've had it installed on my C drive then on my G (game - larger and faster) drive, and there is no difference. I STILL get the Optimizing game files screen EVERY time the game starts. I have Windows 11 on a 32GB Z390 system with an i7-9700K CPU and 2070 Super  graphics card. It is very irritating, as the game crashes at the worst spots, like part-way through a difficult series of jumps, grapples, runs and slides, and if I didn't remember to Meditate (Save Game), I have to re-do everything up to and including all of that.

There should be a way to pre-optimize ONCE, or at worst once each version update, NOT every time the game starts.

Steam has its own topic for this and Digital Foundry, in their video naming the game "still the worst triple-a pc port of 2023", mention it, too. So yeah, something that could've and should've been fixed several patches ago (as well as the overly agressive occlusion culling), but I guess this is just EA for you.

So * sick of EA and their *, once I beat Jedi Survivor I'm removing this garbage * client and will never purchase another title that requires this completely unnecessary client ever again. 

I do understand why EA wants a walled garden, Jedi Survivor is so completely broken STILL, DLSS Frame Generation doesn't work correctly half the time, it will either not enable requiring rebooting the entire PC and crossing your fingers or just won't work at all. Then there's the mandatory 90 second "Optimizing Game Files for this PC" EVERY. *. TIME. Every time. Not once when you first fire up the game EVERY TIME. What is the funnest is when DLSS FG refuses to work and so you try switching from Windowed Fullscreen to Fullscreen etc and then the game straight up wigs out, becomes a minimized window, or black-screens for 6 seconds, having to bring up Task Manager to kill the process and then it's back to "Optimizing Game Files for this PC" for another 2 minutes .Golf clap at incompetence. Respawn devs don't respond / refuse to fix this. EA and Respawn are a match made in heaven in terms of incompetence. 

Having this broken title on Steam would result in it getting review bombed. Funny enough, the community presence for Jedi Survivor on Steam is larger and more active than on here even without the client even offering the title! 

Garbage! 

The game IS on Steam though and has only mixed reviews, which for a triple-A game of this caliber is pretty bad. And I hope they feel it.

I recently started this game and I also have this issue.

My CPU usage is increased during the process and I do notice disk writes, so I think it's actually doing something. But every single launch? That's excessive.

I have the same issue.  Go through the entire setup screen each time the game loads, have to space out of the intro cut scene, and have to wait for the files to, each time, be compiled.  Something is definitely wrong when this happens.  EA, you need to fix this or I doubt I'll be getting the last installment of this trilogy.

Nick.

Just got this game and have the same exact issue. "Optimizing game files" can take anywhere from 2.5 to 5 minutes which really sucks because the game freezes/crashes every few hours.

Can we please get some sort of fix for this? Do we need to talk to Respawn directly? Even an acknowledgement from the devs that they are looking into this problem would be appreciated.