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How do you cope with shader processing? (sh.itjust.works)
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It feels like I mine bitcoins for our Great Daddy Gaben every other update, setting my CPU at 100% for a long time.

I know it makes difference (to skipping it and eating lags), it works, but how it doesn't use previous literal gigabytes of generated shaders, starting from 0% every time? Why it takes so much time?

I feel like I'm a dumbass and I miss something obvious. Or I just feel like I'm alone with it? Do you guys all deal with it?

Am sitting at 66% percents, my PC heats like it renders video in Premiere, just to let me play the game I've played yesterday again. Guess all my recycling and replanting routine can fuck right off with that power consumption. Sorry, nature, I tried.

But anyway if you are tired of it or knows some tricks, write what's on your mind.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree that's very annoying sometimes but at the same time very beneficial for in-game performance as it greatly reduces the amount of computations the game has to do at runtime. If you have a powerful enough PC or the game isn't very demanding you can just disable shader pre-caching in steam settings and it shouldn't matter much but it's a real life saver for more demanding titles and imo worth all that wait.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I disabled it and never notice any issues, but I only play BG3 and Guildwars2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hear you. I'm really just venting.

The catch is those non-demanding games are fast to reshader. It's only when you face a heavyweight release this starts to matter, and wastes time accordingly :)