Often when I start the game (as in load and start the actual game from Windows, not start a match) I get a black screen that can last from a few seconds up to like a minute. Then I see the proper loading screen and it says “connecting to server” and all that. It just does something really weird in the background for a long long time sometimes. I have no idea what it is. Is it the driver having problem initializing? I updated it. No change. I even tried deleting all the direct3d cache files as instructed on the support page (https://support.gaijin.net/hc/en-us/articles/30268449678994-How-to-clear-NVIDIA-and-DirectX-cache).
I also recently see a long delay when i CLOSE the game, like the whole interface freezes for several seconds.
Personally I think it’s either something with the anti-cheat that chokes and does something weird on startup and shutdown, or some graphics initialization. It’s only with War Thunder of course.
I’m on Windows 10, Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM and RTX3080 on a good 1000Mbit line and haven’t had these problems before and I’ve been running this install for a long time, like 3-4 years. It just started appearing maybe a month ago or something, maybe more, but relatively recently.
Is this familiar?
Just don’t tell me to “reinstall drivers” or “reinstall windows”… There’s a specific problem and there must be a specific fix, not the shotgun “reinstall everything”.
That’s likely not what they meant.
The usual advice is to clear out the cache folder in the game folder.
But I do notice that that black screen you are making mention of is there, for a while now compared to usual. It’s not quite a full minute, but it is up there.
And are you on Steam? Because I know Steam suuucccckkkssssss for literally not having any messages of the loading progress overall anyway.
I found the link. Edited the post above.
The reason I did that is because I was wondering if shaders were being recompiled or something else just got stuck in a refresh each time, but that’s just guessing since I have no idea what’s happening. I see the anticheat window pop up as a separate application briefly sometimes and I don’t know if that’s causing it, or some graphic init re-initializing every time, or something else…
Yes I’m on Steam… but god damn… I mean even when shutting the game down it freezes for a few seconds. Not sure it used to before, at least not that long.
And yeah the loading black screen is not always 1 minute, sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes 30. I think it was close to 1 minute today (didn’t time it), but it shouldn’t take that long. It shouldn’t even take 10 seconds.
Something’s bugged since a while back.
Yea, the Steam version of the client sucks man. It shows no messages overall.
Try clear that cache folder in the game folder though (Which will be in your Steam Library of the game folder) with the client closed.
If you get graphical issues, the folder to clear in the game folder is the compiledShaders folder.
But as I mentioned, I too feel that blank screen portion is something, and I just use the normal client, not steam.
Same too with the ‘hang’ that happens when you go to close the game, it does hold for like 6-10 seconds, and that too is the same on the normal client.
I’d wonder whether Linuxs native client has this happen.
You want to head to this thread just saying.
Seems like it’s possibly related to the DirectX 12 setting.