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Sahder caching takes hours? (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there anything else going on in the background? Is something else using up your drives or CPU/GPU time?

I've been exclusively on Linux for a while, and I know shader caching happens, but I've never noticed it happening. AFAIK it should be very quick and seamless for the most part.

Are you perhaps using the Flatpak version of Steam?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No nothing else is running. Just Steam. It was happening on Arch last night and I switched to openSUSE this morning and get the same problem. Both times Steam was installed through the native package manager.