Bypass GPU planet generation

[He$$eeTant]

I have a potato laptop that won’t boot Oddy, it can’t get past the GPU planet generation cycle on the first start of the game. I seem to remember a post about taking a file from a computer that had booted and using this to bypass the planet generation to be able to boot up? Does anyone else recall what file it was or even if this is possible??

Thanks

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

doubt it...….

 

[Morbad]

You could try using a GPUWorkTable.xml generated on another system, but you'd have to edit the file to report the same card vendor, device, driver version, and name strings for there to be a chance of it working, otherwise it will realize that the hardware/driver is different and try to regenerate things. Either way, even if it does work, you'll still crash to desktop if you get too close to any landable planet.

 

[He$$eeTant]

Thanks I thought I had read something about a work around but hey ho. Appreciate the response

 

[Jack Winter]

You could try deinstalling and reinstalling the GPU drivers, and then clean out the windows shader cache.

 

[DjVortex]

Doesn't it, like, precompile shaders or something? Compiled shaders are very hardware-specific and are extraordinarily unlikely to work on another GPU model unless it's very similar and they haven't changed anything about it. (The reason for precompiling shaders is so that you don't get stutters when they are compiled on-the-fly during gameplay, when you approach something that needs a shader that hasn't been loaded yet.)

(Note that I'm not talking about compiling shaders from their source code to the intermediate hardware-agnostic bytecode. That happens at the game's build time. I'm talking about compiling this hardware-agnostic bytecode into the actual machine code used by the GPU, which is done by the graphics driver.)

 

[BetaToaster]

You can try setting "<ShaderWarming>false</ShaderWarming>" in Local Settings/Application Data/Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous/Options/Graphics/Settings.xml
(That's the Options->Video->"Shader preparation on startup" setting ingame, which won't help you if the game crashes before reaching the main menu.)

There's also an "<AMDCrashFix>false</AMDCrashFix>" setting in that same file, might try toggling that as well if ShaderWarming false doesn't help.

Edit: "can’t get past" is a rather vague description. I was assuming "game crashes during...", but if it just seems stalled, maybe you just need to give it more time? Leave the game at that phase and go do something else for an hour.