The worst a part of Marvel Rivals is its optimisation—loading in can take an age, and I’ve encountered my fair proportion of stuttering and even some crashes. The truth that I actually take pleasure in taking part in this recreation, spitting complete groups off the sting of the map as Jeff, makes all of that much more irritating. I am struggling by means of the terrible optimisation only for the love of the sport. So I am actually excited to listen to that the devs try to repair it with one thing new: “Swap Shader Compilation Mode.”
“To handle the reminiscence overload, we’re unleashing an experimental function in Season 2: The Swap Shader Compilation Mode,” the patch notes say. “With the Season 2 replace, gamers can activate this function by means of the PC launcher.”
This mode will allow a few enhancements, together with altering the shader compilation course of, which can solely now run when first getting into the sport and after a brand new recreation model or graphics driver replace, hopefully reducing loading occasions. Reminiscence utilization can also be “dramatically decreased, reducing down on extreme FPS drops, frozen visuals, and crashes triggered by reminiscence shortages.”
I can not even start to explain how excited I’m for this. I am actually hoping that this fixes the problems I’ve had with stuttering and crashes, as a result of if it does not, I do not know the way lengthy I will be capable of proceed wading by means of Marvel Rivals video games that really feel like moist cement.
- This repair does include a few identified points that gamers implementing it ought to concentrate on: Some supplies might render abnormally at first, however then repair themselves after a number of frames
- Gamers might expertise a small stutter at first of matches
- Satirically, for techniques with a restricted variety of CPU threads (six or fewer), utilizing each the Swap Shader Compilation Mode and AMD FSR3 Body Era concurrently might introduce extra stutters.
However that is apparently a threat the Marvel Rivals devs say gamers needs to be prepared to take: “We suggest that gamers with 16GB of RAM or much less, who’ve skilled important FPS drops, frozen screens, or frequent crashes in earlier seasons, think about activating this experimental function. And keep in mind, should you encounter any points after enabling it, our assist crew stands prepared to help on this quest for an optimum gaming expertise.”
You may wager that I will be enabling this new function as quickly as I get the Season 2 replace sorted tomorrow. I used to be going to play a ton of Marvel Rivals anyway, simply to expertise a few Emma Frost choke slams, nevertheless it’ll be good to do that with barely higher optimisation.