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?
The is a setting in steam to allow that to happen in the background.
Never seen that happen.
Which games? Have you tried just disabling caching?
So far that’s for A Hat In Time, Resident Evil 6, Battle bit Remastered and DuckTales Remastered.disabling caching means games run really poorly.
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?
Sometimes my PC also starts annoyingly long shader caching as I’m trying to play a game. If you cancel the shader caching, does the game not launch?
Otherwise if you suspect the issue is with Proton,you could use an older version and see if that helps?
what distro? What’s your gpu?
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.
