How to speed up PUBG boot times on Sapphire RX 9070 XT?

Man, every time I launched the game, I was staring at the loading screen for 40 seconds. It was a total test of my patience. After some analysis, I realized the shader pre-compilation on the Sapphire Pure Polar RX 9070 XT was rescanning the entire material library on every single boot, which is just insane. I tried enabling Windows Fast Startup, but that was just a placebo—the actual map load time didn't change a bit, which felt like a joke. I eventually dove into the driver's deep settings, switched the shader cache mode to manual, and killed off every useless background sync service. My boot logs showed the time from click to main menu dropped from 52 seconds to 21 seconds. I did hit a snag where my friend list stopped syncing after disabling some services, but I sorted that by opening a specific network port. GPU temps are sitting at 35-42℃, and the fans are steady at 1400-1600RPM. I exported the boot logs to verify the speedup, and it's finally usable.
Category:Performance Evaluation Last updated:April 3, 2026 12:21 PM