Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems [Bug, PC] After patch, loading start menu takes 20 minutes

Hi there! I'm almost at the end of act 2 (i think) with almost 100 hours of playtime, with almost no bug discovered. After the recent patch (i think the one that fix over 1000 bugs?), loading times are super slow! Like 20 minutes or so only to load the menu screen (start game, continue games etc)...

Anyone had the same problem? It's unplayable like this ç_ç

i have an SSD and use DirectX 11 and until now everything was normal .

Tried to check files integrity twice but nothing!

Wasted my whole day today, trying to diagnose exactly the same issue. The further I go into the campaign, the longer it takes for the game to start. It was almost unnoticeable at first, but now I'm only in Grymforge, and starting the game takes about 6 minutes. Of which 5 minutes 10 seconds (on average) the screen isn't updated, the spinner stops, and the game is doing seemingly nothing.

For me, switching from DirectX to Vulkan solved the problem. Moreover, when I first started it on Vulkan, it had a similar delay (although noticeably shorter), and an additional message "Rebuilding the shader cache. This may take a while" appeared on the loading screen.
On the next start, the shader rebuild message was on screen for maybe 2-3 seconds, and the game started as fast as it's supposed to.

Looks like in DirectX mode the game rebuilds this shader cache from scratch every time it starts, and Vulkan has an optimisation check for this. Considering that rebuild runs on a single CPU core (judging by the PerfMon trace), no wonder it takes so much time.

Hello, I have this same problem. Initially starting up the game from my GOG. It sits at the screen where the bottom right counts up to 100%. The 100% basically freezes and stays there for a good 2-3 minutes now. I have noticed this time taking longer and longer not just since the big patch, even before then... and longer the more I progress into the game?

This load only is long at the initial screen to New Game, Load Game, Multiplayer Game. Not between saves.

I am having the opposite problem. When I load with Vulkan, it says "Rebuilding the shader chache. This may take a while" and it does, every time I load the game. Several minutes, keeps rebuilding. I tried a cache wipe, changing the cache settings in steam and no luck. When I switch to DirectX it doesn't do this and is faster. I have an AMD gfx card.

It's a problem with GOG Galaxy overlay. Turn off the overlay to fix the stalled loading screen.

Yeah it is the overlay, thanks. What is odd is this was not happening on release and a few weeks after. It only has been as of recent. Thanks.

I have the same issue under Steam, and I have the Steam overlay turned off both system-wide and for the game itself. It has YET to load for me...

EDIT: I even let it sit OVERNIGHT on the loading screen. No luck...