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Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean, they do (for most games) on Linux. "Allow background processing of vulkan shaders" in Downloads.

The issue is that they can only do so much without support of the games themselves. My, very limited, understanding is they distribute "good enough" shaders with games and then the background processing is optimizing those for the user's computer. But getting those "good enough" shaders is already a mess.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Turning the Stream shader feature of was the only way I could get Dune to run without a shader error crash. Good Enough is always problematic.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    One game has issues -> "always problematic"

    Yes, there are issues with updates and cached shaders... I mean, look at the topic of the thread. But the vast majority of the time there are zero issues and, again, this has been one of the biggest causes of a lot of the "This game runs better on Linux than Windows?!?!?!" because the fly by night org just rushed into a single scene and took very few samples.

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