Reducing startup latency for Manli RTX 5080 in Space Marine 2
Man, every time I launched the game, I was staring at the loading screen for 50 seconds. It was a test of my patience. Analysis showed the GDDR7 memory on the Manli RTX 5080 OC 16GB was rescanning the texture library every single time, which is just ridiculous. I tried enabling 'Fast Startup' in Windows, but that was just a placebo—the actual map loading time didn't budge, which was honestly hilarious. I eventually dove into the driver's deep settings, switched the shader cache mode to manual, and killed every unnecessary background sync service. My boot logs showed the time from click to main menu dropped from 62 seconds to 25 seconds. I did break my friend list sync at first after disabling some services, but opening specific network ports fixed it. GPU temps stay cool at 32-40℃, and fans are steady at 1400-1600 RPM. I exported the loading logs just to prove the difference. It's finally usable, though the initial setup was a slog.
