General Discussions

[Rdshb]

Hello, im having issues while running new stalker 2 game, after starting it i cant get trough "compiling shaders" screen. It seemed like it would take some tima but i let the game take their time and after more a few hour the progress was still stuck on the same (roughly 40%).

Im thinking the issue may be related to shader cache size or something like that, can i change it like in nvidia GPUs or is there any solution to this problem? Or are my components too old and i need a new setup?
My build: Ryzen 5 3500 - Rx570 - 16GbRam

[BigAl01]

I've deleted your duplicate post as requested.  It looks like this is a demanding game and with your older setup, it's going to take a while for the game to complete the 'compiling shaders' prior to starting the game.  This site has some good information about the issue and in the Adrenalin software, you can try setting the Shader Cache to 'AMD Optimized'.  

[KoalaTrash]

I'm having the same issue, get about halfway through compiling then the game crashes.

I have a Ryzen 5700x, 32gb of ram, and a Radeon RX 7900xtx so it cant be that i don't have enough vram.

It gets to about 10 GB of dedicated memory usage then crashes.

Please help

[musicrab]

Same issue. Once shaders are compiled it's fine but takes too long each start.  Anybody managed to find the shader cache setting in adrenaline settings? It's not in mine.

EDIT. See the following.

Just a heads up, with AMD cards, they removed the shader cache size option since like 2021, the only option left is clear your shader cache which might help the performance issue, or you have to do the Regedit edit yourself(use at your own risk), I can't believe even on the official Q&A about this issue, they still tell you to set the option to AMD optimized through the driver when it no longer existed, tutorial below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t1b8bb/i_found_a_possible_fix_for_stuttering_on_amd_card...

[musicrab]

I've found a way of stopping the shader compilation every time the game is started up.  I've got an AMD card which doesn't appear to offer any shader compilation options, either in (Adrenaline) settings or in the registry.  It works by copying a "pak" file into Stalker paks folder.  I guess it just works like a switch telling the game not to compile the shaders SO if you change any GPU setting you'll have to remove the pak file to allow recompilation.  Of-course, there's a patch in progress (25th Nov) which may solve this. Or not.  

Mod details here :-  No Shader Warmup | Stalker 2 Mod

[goodplay]

With a new driver install takes around 7 minutes, after that it is 1-2 mins. from start.

Clear steam download cache can sometimes help with slow starting.