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Vulkan shaders taking a long time to process? (hilariouschaos.com)
submitted 5 days ago by NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I just got my system all set up and using KDE Neon distro. I got Steam installed and been playing a few games that work fantastically.

My biggest issue is that the shaders take a very long time.

So far I’ve played Ghost Recon Wildlands and Ready or Not and both took longer than the download of the game. Like 30 minutes.

I was okay with this as a first time setup sort of thing, but it seems it did this on first two starts of the game. On the third time opening Ghost Recon Wildlands, I didn’t see this again.

But my question is, is there any way I can speed this up and is this normal to take this long? I remember shaders taking a minute on Windows too on this same machine, but never this long. At most, 10 minutes, but never more than that.

My setup:

  • KDE Neon User Edition
  • AMD Ryzen 5 5600
  • PNY RTX 4080 Super
  • 64GB DDR4 RAM
  • 2TB Samsung 860 Evo SSD
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[–] Keegen@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

I disabled the shader pre-caching in Steam completely, between the long compile times and daily 5gb+ downloads it just wasn't worth it. I honestly do not feel the difference, there is usually a little bit of stuttering the very first time you launch a game and after a major GPU driver update but it goes away after a minute or two.