What was today's update?

[Warlocc]

Are there patch notes anywhere? I can't seem to find any except something about Mac last month.

[Mojo]

As far as I know there wasn't an update today.
Maybe what you saw was some cloud syncing going on.

[Lani]

If you're on pc with a modrn NVIDIA gfx card RTX 20x0 and later and have not opted out of them you occasionally get really small updates, from several hundred kilobytes to up to three Megabytes as the largest I've seen.
These are shader optimizations for the game.
All that deep learning NVIDIA cards do? A lot of that isn't done by the cards in your pc. Nvidia distributes them through Steam for some reason. Better treach than Geforce Now probably. Or better at providing small updates? Dunno.
Don't pin me on the exact generation please, I think it was the 2060 that had the first DL** technologies.
For all I know AMD does something similar or not.

[Ironwu]

There is NO BG3 update for today. Or yesterday. Or for some weeks now.

[ahsanford]

Can't speak for driver/hardware changes, but the BG3 patch was teased today, probably dropping tomorrow for Valentine's Day for *most* of us:

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-patch-6-party-management/

- A

P.S. Why tomorrow? Decent guess as some kissing updates are being teased (by Larian directly on Twitter)

[ahsanford]

Entirely separate thread on the upcoming patch:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/4204742681383706425/

- A

[Warlocc]

Originally posted by Lani:

If you're on pc with a modrn NVIDIA gfx card RTX 20x0 and later and have not opted out of them you occasionally get really small updates, from several hundred kilobytes to up to three Megabytes as the largest I've seen.
These are shader optimizations for the game.
All that deep learning NVIDIA cards do? A lot of that isn't done by the cards in your pc. Nvidia distributes them through Steam for some reason. Better treach than Geforce Now probably. Or better at providing small updates? Dunno.
Don't pin me on the exact generation please, I think it was the 2060 that had the first DL** technologies.
For all I know AMD does something similar or not.

RTX 2070, so that could very well have been the case. I'd be surprised to learn that happens through Steam updates, though.

[emreyigit1967]

Originally posted by Lani:

If you're on pc with a modrn NVIDIA gfx card RTX 20x0 and later and have not opted out of them you occasionally get really small updates, from several hundred kilobytes to up to three Megabytes as the largest I've seen.
These are shader optimizations for the game.
All that deep learning NVIDIA cards do? A lot of that isn't done by the cards in your pc. Nvidia distributes them through Steam for some reason. Better treach than Geforce Now probably. Or better at providing small updates? Dunno.
Don't pin me on the exact generation please, I think it was the 2060 that had the first DL** technologies.
For all I know AMD does something similar or not.

Thank you, I didn't know this and always wondered.

[Brian_the_Brute]

Patches drop on Thursdays or Fridays .... 2/15 most likely

[InsertCookiesHere]

Originally posted by Lani:

If you're on pc with a modrn NVIDIA gfx card RTX 20x0 and later and have not opted out of them you occasionally get really small updates, from several hundred kilobytes to up to three Megabytes as the largest I've seen.
These are shader optimizations for the game.
All that deep learning NVIDIA cards do? A lot of that isn't done by the cards in your pc. Nvidia distributes them through Steam for some reason. Better treach than Geforce Now probably. Or better at providing small updates? Dunno.
Don't pin me on the exact generation please, I think it was the 2060 that had the first DL** technologies.
For all I know AMD does something similar or not.

That's not Nvidia distributing them, it's Valve. Their just pre-cached shaders for the game from other users with a similar hardware to limit the amount of time you need to spend doing shader compilation.
It'll come regardless of whether your GPU is from Nvidia or AMD or Intel, nothing to do with deep learning either. You could be using 15yr old hardware and still receive them.
(Unless you have the option disabled in Steam's settings anyway)

[Lani]

Originally posted by InsertCookiesHere:

Originally posted by Lani:

If you're on pc with a modrn NVIDIA gfx card RTX 20x0 and later and have not opted out of them you occasionally get really small updates, from several hundred kilobytes to up to three Megabytes as the largest I've seen.
These are shader optimizations for the game.
All that deep learning NVIDIA cards do? A lot of that isn't done by the cards in your pc. Nvidia distributes them through Steam for some reason. Better treach than Geforce Now probably. Or better at providing small updates? Dunno.
Don't pin me on the exact generation please, I think it was the 2060 that had the first DL** technologies.
For all I know AMD does something similar or not.

That's not Nvidia distributing them, it's Valve. Their just pre-cached shaders for the game from other users with a similar hardware to limit the amount of time you need to spend doing shader compilation.
It'll come regardless of whether your GPU is from Nvidia or AMD or Intel, nothing to do with deep learning either. You could be using 15yr old hardware and still receive them.
(Unless you have the option disabled in Steam's settings anyway)

Ah sorry, I was under the impression Nvidia was in the director's seat and using Steam's data collecting and distributing platform for it, but if you say it's Valve in charge, sure. The end result's the same. We get micro updates with shader packs.
I've not seen it with cards older than my 2070, but it's quite possible they didn't start doing it before I got that card and now do it for every card including those without DL technology.