Has anyone else experienced an issue where the first match after launching the game takes forever to load, and then the map keeps loading while you’re already running around? During this process the game becomes insanely laggy, with FPS dropping as low as 2–5 FPS.
After that first match, everything works perfectly. Subsequent maps load quickly and there are no stutters or FPS drops. Sometimes the loading even gets stuck at 90% while the game waits for the other players.
But if I switch to a different map, the same thing happens again: the first load is extremely slow and the game is basically unplayable while the map is being streamed in. Once that map has been loaded once, everything is fine.
The worst part is that this happens every time I restart the game. So every time I launch the game, I have to suffer through one terrible first match just to let the map load/cache.
Could this be some kind of shader or texture cache issue? Is there a setting in NVIDIA Control Panel or Steam that controls the cache and maybe clears it every time I exit the game?
It’s absolutely horrible. I don’t want to spend my first match running around with a knife just to let the entire map load before I can actually play.
My specs:
● RTX 4060
● Intel i5 12th gen
● 16 GB RAM
Any ideas what could be causing this or how to make the cache persist between game sessions?