It’s always a great experience when you buy a new game that you were looking forward to and download it, even if it takes a long time with the massive 150GB download of Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl. However, all this excitement shatters if the game refuses to work, even if you have the required specifications.
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One of the main issues you’ll face while launching the game is it crashing when you’re compiling shaders. This can happen for a variety of reasons, and here are a few solutions you can try to get into your playthrough.
Verify File Integrity Or Reinstall The Game
This is likely something you’ve already tried, but if you haven’t, this is the first step of troubleshooting any issues in a game, especially if you’re playing through Steam. If you’re having any sort of crash issues, you can simply try to verify your file integrity or reinstall the game. Here are the steps to do the former from Steam:
- Open your Steam library and search for Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl.
- Once you find the game, right-click on it and click on Properties.
- Here, you can click on Verify File Integrity and wait for a few minutes.
If this process finds any damaged files, they’ll automatically be replaced and you can reboot the game once it’s done to see if it fixed your issue.
Check If You Have Enough Space
Sometimes, the problem can be as simple as you not having enough storage. However, the requirement for storage works a little differently when it comes to shaders. First, you should check if you have a good amount of space on the disc that you’ve Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl saved on.
If you do, head over to NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings and scroll until you find Shader Cache Size. Here, you can try increasing the overall size or making it unlimited and try to see if this will free up enough memory for your shader compilation.
Reducing The Performance Core Ratio (Intel Only)
If you’re someone who uses an Intel CPU, one of the problems leading to crashes at shader compilation could be an overload on your CPU. This usually happens with specific models of the brand, but you can still try this fix regardless. Here are the steps:
- Download the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility program and open it.
- Once open, find the Performance Core Ratio setting and reduce it by one to three points from your default value.
- Save and exit the program as you keep it running in the background, and try to open the game again.
Do not reduce this value by more than three as this can be harmful to your CPU in some situations.
Other Solutions
If none of the above solutions work for you, here are a few more small things you can try:
- Make sure all your drivers, especially graphic drivers are up to date.
- Restart your PC.
- Try running the game in administrator mode.
- Update your BIOS.
- Try putting the game in Windowed mode as soon as you start it by pressing Alt+Enter.
- Finally, you can also try searching Power Options/Plan on your taskbar and switch to Power Saver settings.
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