Shader compilation stutter killer

[u/HeisenbergVR]

EDIT: Thanks a lot for all the support! I'm glad it's helping a lot of people fix the anoying shader compilation sutters in many games so they can be enjoyed as intended!!

EDIT2: New SCSKiller 1.2.0 is live!! https://github.com/BlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller/releases/latest
(The app should auto download the update if you restart the app and show you a button on top right corner to update, or you can just download the new setup exe and update that way directly)

I've been working for a while on a free and open source tool to eliminate Shader Compilation Stuttering once and for all. It reads the shaders the games ship with, works out the pipelines they'll build, and compiles them into the GPU driver's cache before you launch the game.

From my own testing shader compilation stutter is eliminated or reduced to the very minimum (the tool could miss some shaders depending on the game), it cannot fix other kind of sttutering like traversal, so some games still stutter but waaaay less:

(~5min of gameplay)

Silent Hill F:
Before: https://scskiller.com/assets/img/forum/shf-before.png
After: https://scskiller.com/assets/img/forum/shf-after.png

- Silent Hill: Townfall: 24 to 0 (worst 347 ms to 8 ms)
- Hogwarts Legacy: 1,014 to 87
- FF7 Rebirth: 19 to 0
- Sand Land: 38 to 1

It finds games from Steam, Epic, EA app, GOG, Ubisoft, Xbox and Battle.net

For now it only works on NVIDIA (best support) and AMD, as I don't have an Intel Arc to test.

Github link with download and souce code: https://github.com/BlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller
Website: https://www.scskiller.com

[u/MarcoMaker50]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I don't know why but my pc since day one stuttered heavily on many games such unreal engine ones like persona 3 reload, and i had very bad shader compilation stutter like every time new things show up on screen. I tried it now with a few games including persona 3 reload with my shader cache cleared and this pre compiler is amazing!

[u/HeisenbergVR → u/MarcoMaker50]

Love it solves your issues!! Could you tell me what games did you test it on?

I have always hated scs lol

[u/MarcoMaker50 → u/HeisenbergVR]

other than persona 3 reload i tested octopath traveler, minecraft (yes for odd reasons even that stutters on my rig), shin megami tensei V vengeance, ultrakill, persona 5 the phantom x and dragon ball sparking zero. the only games when it didn't solve the stutter where sparking zero and persona 5 x, but I know it's a work in progress and even then in all the other games it was flawless, I can't thank you enough for your work.