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Sahder caching takes hours? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys.

I've finally returned to Linux gaming after a year hiatus back on Windows but currently have been unable to play anything due to Steam's shader caching. Trying to launch a game means I have to sit and leave my PC on for hours (I gave up after 2) just whilst the progress bar slowly goes up. I made sure background caching was on in the settings and even added a config file to enable more threads as I saw suggested online but after leaving Steam open overnight I'm still unable to play any games.

This wasn't an issue when I was dailying Linux a year ago so I'm assuming something in Proton must've changed?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what distro? What's your gpu?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happened on Arch last night and this morning switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed with the exact same issues. GPU is a GTX 1070 with nvidia drivers installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think You can turn shader pre-caching off in steam options since your gpu should use gpl in games and see is there any change in game performance.