Every unique visual interaction in Marvel Rivals, from Doctor Strange’s dimensional portals to the destructible rubble of Tokyo 2099, requires tailored rendering instructions. Under older graphics APIs like DirectX 11, the graphics driver handled these instructions on the fly during gameplay. The consequence was notorious: every time a character triggered an unfamiliar ability, the game hitched violently while translating raw code into machine-executable binaries.
To eliminate those mid-match frame spikes, the developer implemented an exhaustive shader pre-caching delay. The engine feeds thousands of raw mathematical shaders directly to your CPU before you ever set foot in the main menu. Because the process is massively parallelized, the installer instructs every available processor thread to execute at maximum frequency until all instruction sets convert into ready-to-render binaries for your graphics card.
If your system lacks sufficient cooling, this initial compilation triggers an immediate high CPU temperature bottleneck. Processors hit their thermal ceilings within twenty seconds, throttle down clock speeds to protect silicon, and dramatically stretch what should be a two-minute process into a prolonged stall.
