For the past 6 days, I've received 5 updates of more than a Gigabyte!
What are these updates? Although the game has very few issues, they are never fixed!
Edit:
Apparently it's not updates, but downloads of undermined purpose?
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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Yeah this is shadercache
Yes it is shadercache as you wrote.
But just to prove I'm not totally crazy, I included an image showing it only says "Updating" above the progress bar. Which is why I thought it was the game that was updating.
But hovering the (i) it says "shader pre-caching update."
Then there's the question why it needs to update shader cache nearly every time I've played the game?
But aren't those generated locally?
Nope they download some to reduce the time it takes to process the shaders. You only have to generate them locally if they don't have your hardware specs already built in their cache.
Thanks, live and learn. 😋
Shader cache updates usually have an extra icon next to them in the downloads list
Thanks, I'll definitely check for that next time.