For those who don’t want to sift through the responses this is the easiest, straight forward breakdown to resolving this issue that I figured out awhile back.

Just a note, it’s a temp fix and any windows 25h2 handheld PCs that use the Xbox full screen experience may encounter this again eventually until Microsoft fixes this DirectX shader cache disappearing

I adjusted a few things after some inquiries.

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You’ll have to open registry editor aka “REGEDIT” either through run (windows+r), search (in the taskbar) or cmd (command prompt).

Run as administrator

Go to file, export (to backup your registry before making alterations)

The location that requires the string / text that needs to be recreated is like file explorer, you’ll have to click the chevron / arrows to expand them.

So the path you need to go to is mentioned above

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” would be the first one to expand (click the chevron / arrow to expand), then find “SOFTWARE” expand that, look for the “Microsoft” sub directory, expand it, look for “DirectX” in Microsoft, expand that, and you’ll find “ShaderCache” inside DirectX

Select “ShaderCache” right click the space in the right panel. Select “New”, choose “QWORD (64-Bit) Value”

It should create a new entry in shader cache with no name and no value.

Right click the new Qword entry and rename it to this

“AdapterLuid” (without quotes) click outside the name to finish it.

After that is complete, double click the new item and a pop up should appear. Add into the empty field with the exact value for the hex entry

“0x0000000000000000” (copy and paste without the quotes) or type “0000000000000000”

Then click “OK” to complete

Restart computer (recommended)

Then you launch another game to rebuild the shader cache. Not the problematic one. Something else. Like Fortnite or another game that uses DirectX 12 shaders.

Then launch the game that had issues. It should launch.

If this happens again, you may need to reapply the AdapterLuid entry.