: The game may require a GPU that supports a higher Shader Model (like SM5 for DX11), and the SM4 file is missing because the game wasn't built to run on older hardware.
Rather than downloading a single .bin file—which is often game-specific and rarely resolves the underlying issue—you should follow these troubleshooting steps to fix the root cause: globalshadercache-pcd3d-sm4.bin file download