processing vulkan shaders takes forever

[drlaza]

im gaming on linux and each time i launch the game, it start this process which eats my cpu 100% and is progressing insanely slow. also when i restard my pc i get a 'validating' prompt from steam which downloads 1,1gb of data. any ideas what this is and why it happens?
other than that everythings fine and im also running the game on lower than min spec on high settings (default) :)

[krokwen]

same. proton 9.0-3. 9.0-4, very slow vulkan shaders processing on each run.
also, if you cancel this process, the game will run after that immediately.
i'm still in the beginning of game, so i don't have any insane screen activity, and i don't see any performance difference with shaders processed or skipped.

i play with FSR Quality 70% sharpness with upscale 1080p to 1440p

[drlaza]

im skipping the process as well, and the game runs just fine so its not a huge issue.

[krokwen]

i figured out. ot's not a PoE2 issue, but steam issue, and it happens for many years already in various cases.

you can go to steam settings -> donwloads -> shader pre-caching and disable it.

[Fun]

Same annoying problem.. Linux + Proton GE 9.21

[Capitan Mago]

same problem here :(

[holykek1337]

i have this issue on steam deck. the first week was fine, didn't have that screen appear but now no matter what, it's always there and makes no difference. sup with dat?

[RLG]

Same here and it reprocss them at every update of the game which are frequent at the moment. this is very annoying it takes over 5 hours... can't they be packed swith the updated ? are they costom on each machines ? I find this very inefficient

[Belegos]

I am playing PoE2 on CachyOS 6.12.9. My 3900XT is also nearly 100% pinned. After every restart of the game it take like 20-30 min. Running on Proton experimental

[königplatzen]

Originally posted by Belegos:

I am playing PoE2 on CachyOS 6.12.9. My 3900XT is also nearly 100% pinned. After every restart of the game it take like 20-30 min. Running on Proton experimental

Yeah, its because of "shader pre caching" in Steam (settings -> Downloads)

On Linux, it somehow thinks, that it needs updating. I switched it off and no problems anymore. Maybe it could make sense to activate for other games, though.

EDIT: Also linking my own thread regarding this issue
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2694490/discussions/0/598514808890874340/