Hey does the new steamos update have the same version of mesa as bazzite?
Hey does the new steamos update have the same version of mesa as bazzite?
Kdifferent, but the new build of SteamOS does have the shader cache changes, yes
YBut its still using shaders?
Khm?
YI thought the point of the driver update was so that we didnt need the shader cache anymore?
Kthey will always be needed
Kthat's never not gonna be true
Kthey are half the size they were and building them no longer stutters
Kthat's all it does
Yso wait
Ybasically youre saying the need to prebuild them is gone but still build them?
Kthey are built at load instead of at render
Kso it doesn't stutter in game
Kin the interest of battery life they will still be cached & shared
Ksince generating them is still a wasteful process
Yand im assuming a proformance cost as well?
Kyeah, just during load
Kshader compilation is expensive
Ydamn it see this is the one thing that makes me feel conflicted about using bazzite
KHm?
Tthis is not exclusive to bazzite
Tthis is linux gaming
Ybecause in most cases i dont get that shader cache download and then i have to build it myself
Kyeah, this is true anywhere you use proton
Kthe more people that use bazzite the more will be pre-generated and shared on steam
Kthat's how this works, it's P2P
Yah so basically if im not getting the download and i build them at some point im assuming it will upload them for others?
Kright
Kshader caches are specific to
K1: hardware
K2: mesa version
Keach time mesa updates new caches are needed
Ywell, when the hell does this upload happen?
K¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yoh, so they really will always need updates at some point.
Kyeah
Yoh thats lame lol
Yoh wow i was wrong
Yi just turned the shader precache back on and then i just a shader cache update for scarlet nexus, elden ring, forza, spiderman and a few others
Kyea like I said leave that on
Kvery important
Kit does more than shaders too
Yyou also mentioned videos correct?
Ythat part still is super odd to me
Ksome games use videos with proprietary codecs that can't be used on linux (legally)
Kso part of the shader cache is transcoded videos
Kto replace them
Tshaders suck and take up storage but like... thats how it be
Yfacts bro. facts
Yhonestly i think ill just stay put. this thing is stable, and low key had feature before offical steam os got them
