Game takes a long time to launch for the first time or after moving it to another folder on MacOS

[chutneyio]

Godot version

v4.1.2.stable.mono.official [399c9dc]

System information

Godot v4.1.2.stable.mono - macOS 14.0.0 - Vulkan (Forward+) - dedicated AMD Radeon Pro 555X - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (12 Threads)

Issue description

Exported game seems to take a very long time to launch for the first time or after moving it to another folder.

Steps to reproduce

• Create an empty project
• Export the game
• Run the game for the first time, observe that it takes > 10 seconds to launch. Launch the game again and it only takes < 1 seconds.
• Move the game to another folder, and it also takes more time to launch for the first time.

Minimal reproduction project

Empty project

[Zireael07]

Most likely shader cache creation/shaders compiling?

[AThousandShips]

Indeed this sounds like shaded compilation

[chutneyio]

So this is essential then. I think we can improve the UX by letting the game show loading progress when doing that kind of heavy stuff at the beginning. Currently the game is unresponsive with a spinning wheel for almost 10s before splash screen appears. It would be better if we can show splash screen immediately upon launch while compiling the shaders in background.

[Calinou]

Thanks for the report! Consolidating in godotengine/godot-proposals#3657.