Marvel Rivals keeps crashing while building shader cache, anyone got a real fix?

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Yo, Marvel Rivals is cooking my patience right now. Every launch starts normal, then it hits the shader cache / compiling shaders part and boom, desktop. No clean error, no useful popup, just gone. I already verified the files, rebooted, and updated my GPU driver. The weird part is the game worked once before, then after a patch it started acting cursed. I do not want to reinstall 80GB if this is just some busted cache folder. Specs are decent, other games run fine.

Aim Drift · Accepted Answer

Yeah, this is usually a broken shader cache or a bad first-launch compile, not a full reinstall problem. Try this order: 1. Close the game and launcher completely. 2. Clear your GPU shader cache from Windows Disk Cleanup or your GPU control panel. 3. Delete the game-specific cache/config folder if the game recreated bad shader data. 4. Reboot before launching again. 5. Verify game files after the reboot, not before. 6.

Marvel Rivals keeps crashing while building shader cache, anyone got a real fix?

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