Still, it seems like Unreal is leading the charge to fix this problem for players. Hopefully, a permanent solution will make shader stuttering a thing of the past.

Epic announced a slate of new features for Unreal Engine 5 during its State of Unreal address, but the most important update flew under the radar.

Before Unreal Engine 5.2, Epic recommended that developers bundle the most common PSOs into a cache, allowing games to precompile most of the shader code during loading screens.

Why is Unreal Engine 4 so notorious, then? The engine has a feature in place to cache shaders and prevent those stutter-causing in-the-moment shader calls, but it doesn't cover everything.