James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Shader compilation stutter has been one of PC gaming’s most persistent annoyances for years, and Microsoft just took a meaningful swing at fixing it on AMD hardware. The AMD Software: Adrenalin ...

All Windows users with AMD Radeon graphics cards released in the past several years can now use a new feature from Microsoft ...

Here are some fixes for the unexpected FHE01 crashes in Forza Horizon 6.

TL;DR: PC gamers have likely noticed frequent stuttering or lengthy shader-compilation loading screens in many titles over the past few years. Microsoft unveiled a potential solution to the problem ...

Intel has found a way to stop its Arc users staring at loading bars like it is 2012. Last year, Microsoft’s DirectX “AgilitySDK” picked up “Advanced Shader Delivery”, and now Intel is flipping the ...

The first and most important thing is to make sure you are actually stuck and not just stalled on a particular value. When I was installing the game, I stalled at 77% for a good five minutes or so.

The sequel to the popular action RPG, Dragon’s Dogma 2, is back. However, you will find that when you boot up the game, it takes a very long time in Compiling Shaders. This is a normal process and is ...