I also noticed after updating my drivers it is taking way longer to load into games which is weird since i have a good PC (rtx 3060 AMD ryzen 5600) and internet.
Bumping this issue as this has been an ongoing issue and this post needs to be pinned.
My specs as follows:
I5-11400f
RX 6600
64GB DDR4
WT installed on NVMe m2 2TB drive
Windows 10 Pro x64
Stutters in GPU intensive areas where I’ve never had issues past months. AMD Driver is up to date, clear shader cache, when stutter is bad(i.e. freeze >1-2 seconds) game crashes to desktop.
Only happens in war thunder, I haven’t had critical hardware failure or software issues related to other games. Gaijin please dedicate a proper team instead of sending work offshore; a lot of these ‘patches’ end up breaking more stuff every update.
My open issue on gaijin’s community website related to this topic: Community Bug Reporting System
Relevant screenshot:
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Honestly game is almost unplayable, I had one game where my tank took an aphe to the face n tanked it and the game instantly froze and 1-2 seconds later crashed. Important facts to consider, the game froze as the explosion particles blew up in my gunner view camera so this is definitely a issue related to graphics and seems to me like a memory leak issue. Please address this as it is urgent for most players.
You could actually need to clear out the compiled shaders folder to be honest, but that’s the sort of thing missed by people that get to reading some ‘info’ from other sources, and not do anything to actually diagnose the issue.
I will attempt this, but then again this is not a normal fix nor a normal issue for people to go completely out of their way to fix. Only those really dedicated to playing War Thunder will do their due diligence and go through an entire process just to play the game under normal circumstances.
This needs to be addressed by Gaijin and a bandaid fix will definitely not promote the new player base to stay. I can imagine being a new player and if I were to face crashes/stutters on this old game I wouldn’t even care for fixing it; I would most definitely play a non-broken game. Their damage model isn’t that crazy to drool over, I would rather prefer to play a game that doesn’t crash or stutter and this is coming from someone that used to play Dayz Mod on Arma 2 average 15-30 fps lol.
It’s not an uncommon suggestion, and to think about it doesn’t take an overly technical mind.
And here I am, looking through these threads, posting suggestions and questions.
This is actually a normal process, one that needs people to actually do what’s asked and suggested, rather than just reading those numerous posts around the place saying there’s an issue, not doing anything and just taking the situation as a problem without eventrying anything.
I can imagine new players reading this sort of thing that is put out in these sorts of threads, with no abatement from anyone other than those ffected complaining, finding a reason to lean on the ‘It’s broken’ mentality, but it doesn’t mean that it is, or that the issue you think you’re finding is accurate.
This is beside the point.
Clear the folder out, verify files, start the game…
Also just to highlight something along these lines, check your settings.
Use Geforce Experience if you’ve got it installed and use the game optimized settings in the profiler, and even notch it back a bit in the custom option if it’s not having effect.
You assume too much, and yes the average user is not technical in the mind you can’t honestly believe everyone is as capable as you are, smh. Get out of that fantasy world.
Just judging by you having a profile pic is enough of a statement on that end, you are definitely more dedicated to this game/community then average user.
Don’t justify what isn’t actually a normal process when this issue has been open for over a year. Please do your own research on this subject. I’ve only recently encountered this issue as I’ve updated my drivers, however, I’m not even sure what driver version was working fine if that will even fix it(most likely not).
Most new players won’t give the game a 2nd chance if all they face is stutters and crashes to the desktop so please stop gloating over this game and lack of accountability or at the very least acknowledgment for these issues. A good permanent QA/development team most likely will fix these issues Gaijin seems to be creating out of thin air.
I will let you know if this fixes it in an hour or so, my guess is it won’t as file validation didn’t find any corrupt files deleting shaders from shader folder is not needed in most cases.
Still persists even after ur ‘fixes’. This is software issue related on Gaijin’s side not client side as I assumed.
You’ve done one attempt, and you’re already writing it off…
Yet you have the ability to post on a forum assuming that it’s just the game.
Yes still stutters, haven’t crashed yet. But that takes time, the issue is stutter/crashes.
And the issue may be something else, but you already think you know, even though you think that normal players won’t actually even do anything because you’ve done nothing.
Think about that… I’m here trying to offer things, you are already set in mind that nothing will work, and you’re writing off what I said before you’ve even come back with anything…
Actually I stand corrected, ur fix seems to resolve the stutter in the game, still stutters in the hanger. I will update if it crashes, but in game, it seems to be okay for the most part. Still, a stutter issue is persistent though, not in game so far.
Nice, see how you get on… Just beware that this is what comes from reading too many posts on random sites and assuming that things are all related.
Like, hope you do have some more luck.
I was mostly referencing new players and the average player isn’t that technical enough to find a hidden appdata folder. So yes, I’m not wrong on those facts.
I know the issue is related to AMD cards, specifically, I’ve seen people with RX6600 with the same issues which is why I opened an issue. But thank you for clarifying that you need to delete shader files too, that seems to have fixed it but I will need to test some more.
I will update my issue I opened so in case others who faced this might have a solution.
I assumed you were on nVidia xD
I actually have no idea about AMDs software and all thier setup that would relate to the ‘experience’ frontend.
It’s really good though that the clearing of that folder made some movement for you. It could be a thing for anyon who is having video/FPS issues to clear them out.
I still have to clear mine out as I feel that flashing that comes from tanks and textures is also something to do with that folder.
Weird that AMD’s clear shader cache doesn’t clear all of the shader files through their adrenaline software(its up to date too).
For those also with AMD try deleting these shader files under this folder:
*Stands for user folder name
:\Users\ * \AppData\Local\AMD\DxCache\
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There’s also a folder in the game folder ‘compiledShaders’ which is the one I meant xD
Awesome though.
Still getting the issue with a 4070. Tried a complete uninstall/reinstall, reverted graphics drivers, installed older drivers, cleared the shaders folder out, tried the geforce recommend settings and nothing seems to make a difference for me. Not sure what else to even try since War Thunder is the only game I am running into an issue with.
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