optimizing shaders

[Ashkent]

i install SF and then i have to change my video settings back to what they were because it defaulted them. so now i'm optimizing shaders and its taking like 10 minutes....

everything seems to take twice as long now...

[imported_Sharp]

Re: optimizing shaders

Only twice as long? I seem to spend ages at 62% now when I reach that geometries crap

[Boon59]

Re: optimizing shaders

yeah i get stuck there for a while too

[Ownthink]

Re: optimizing shaders

Only twice as long? I seem to spend ages at 62% now when I reach that geometries crap

I timed that at 8 minutes for me.

[HYP3R]

Re: optimizing shaders

Don't worry about it. It will do it a few more times and thats it. Mine does't do it anymore at all. Just don't touch your v-settings anymore or patch a v-card driver or it will do same thing.

[Talus]

Re: optimizing shaders

HUGE pause at 62% for me as well...nearly 10 minutes.

SUPER slow to optimize SF. I never want to change a setting or update my drivers again

[Ashkent]

Re: optimizing shaders

even verifying client takes 3 times longer than it did in bf2

[Ringo*]

Re: optimizing shaders

I can't believe this is normal- I thought my game was messed up. I have a 7800GT and after 5 minutes I kept shutting down thinking it was a bad install or something. I guess I'll have to wait it out. Jesus christ this is annoying...

[rtgbs7k]

Re: optimizing shaders

Love my 2 Gb of RAM, can start capping flags before half my team even exists

[FiveO]

Re: optimizing shaders

The shaders optimizing over and over only lasted 4-5 maps for me the 1st day of install. After that its been smooth sailing.

2gb's of RAM and a XFX 7800GT here.

[gwolb]

Re: optimizing shaders

Yea, it seems after the install, it sets up new cache files for the maps, and this is what is taking long time. What I did was to make changes to video settings, then delete all of the cache files, load in several maps, then after about a day of using different maps, everything loads in much faster now.

Seems like an issue of it building all of the cache files again after the update, and changes to the video settings.

[Attila]

Re: optimizing shaders

Love my 2 Gb of RAM, can start capping flags before half my team even exists

Yeah sometimes I feel guilty about that.

[AFEDslayer]

Re: optimizing shaders

should do it 1-3 times.

[pYura]

Re: optimizing shaders

should do it 1-3 times.

I does twice on night and day maps. The first nighmap loadtime is the longest. (about 4 mins for me)