I use Nixos btw

  • Spectrism
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    7 hours ago

    Have you tried allowing background processing of Vulkan shaders?

  • atocci@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    What does this processing even mean? What’s it doing before the game launches?

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    11 hours ago

    Every single time I launch Skyrim it wants to compile shaders.
    First time I let it run its course, it took 30 minutes.
    Second time I thought it should be faster. Nope, 30 minutes.
    Now I just skip it.
    Then I have to click “no” on a popup window that says “Steam is not responding, want to kill it?” 5-6 times.
    Then it launches normally.

    Linux verified, Gold rating on ProtonDB btw 👍

    (still no clue what shaders are or why they need to be compiled at launch)

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      13 hours ago

      There is an option in steam which caches(saves) a version of the shaders so you don’t have to download it every time you launche.

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        12 hours ago

        Just checked, I have 4GB of shaders stored, but it doesn’t seem to help.