Processing Vulkan Shaders

Is it ADHD or is it depression 🤔

Game: optimizing shaders, please wait

Me: looks at phone

Game: loads into main menu

Me: jams to the main menu music while scrolling for 45 mins

Me: Nah I don't wanna play anymore

Or you're trying to mod skyrim for the first time in 10+ years and hyper focus on troubleshooting crash after crash for 36-ish hours.

Just a theoretical scenario...

I don't have ADHD but it happens to me sometimes. Because all of these lengthy updates, shader caching, loading of game loader, loading of game, etc. By the time a game fully loads I need to go to bed.

Fucking hate it when this happens

Me but with a half hour setup for a solo boardgame 😭

It's so hard to finish long ass games....

That is why the first thing I do with ANY new PC game is to disable all those company logos and legal bumpers that are played before you even get to the main menu.

In most cases it is as easy as opening the game's files in explorer and deleting a few files, like "nvidia_logo.bik" or "legal.bik".

YES!

I finished downloading almost 40GB of Call of Duty Mobile over mobile data on February 21st. I still haven't played it, and now it needs updates installed for sure.
Yeah, quite a big phone game.

Get a Steam Deck, and you can press the power button whenever you want to stop playing and it puts the system on standby. Press it again and it powers on in a couple seconds right where you left it.

Go into menus and clear the red dot notifications. Get my free daily stuff. Then close out

So my overpowered PC is so I don't lose focus due to loading times.

This is why MAME emulation and classic arcade games are so addictive. They were no bullshit. They got you started right away.

That's why I like playing older games. You launch them and start playing immediately.

If a game takes 2 minutes to come to the menu, yes then i do lose interest in the game, not because of ADHD, but because i recognize it's inefficiently coded and probably will hang and lag like crazy later on.

I really shouldve started playing _____. Closes X, boots ____ Dang, I was gonna check something on X...

I usually only get this when I'm overworked, a few days of staring at a wall usually fixes it until the next overtime wave.

I don't really play anymore but occasionally I get the desire to play some Gran Turismo. The last three or four times I've had that urge, both the console and the game required rather large updates. Half an hour later, still not done updating.. desire to play gone with the wind. Rinse and repeat 3 months later.

Too god damn true. Some games back on the last two generations took so god damn long to load. GTA V took I believe like 4 minutes to load from cold boot? So I'd be lost in thought, and the bored by the time the game loaded up.

Which is why I've mostly been a console peasant. PC games are like "So let's spend 5 minutes installing extra shit. And maybe 15 minutes screwing with the settings and fixing compatibility. Oh and are you ready for The Modern Scourge, the Hell that is shader precompilation? We'll be here for a while."

Modern games are a little bit better, but yeah...