Daily 6GB Update on Steamdeck

[Stray_Mutt]

Anyone else getting huge updates every day? I see no topics about it so it seems a 'me' problem.

[HUGE GUTS]

I'm getting a 5-6 gb 'shader cache' each time I turn my Steam Deck on. Having to wait a bit before playing is annoying.
Quick google search told there's an option to turn off that pre-caching thing somewhere deep in the Deck settings. Gotta look it up.

[The Tear Collector]

same for me...no idea whats going on

[Rathyel]

This question was asked and answered multiple times, in this very forum alone:

Check your Shader Pre-Caching settings under:
Steam>Settings>Downloads

Disable 'Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders'

[Ozwald]

Yes, this is a known problem & has several threads here.

Especially on Steam Deck the shader pre-cache is completely useless & should be disabled by default, but it's not.

Switch over to desktop mode & the setting is under Downloads. It's not available in gaming mode.

While you're there it wouldn't be a bad idea to delete your download cache (same menu, also only available in Desktop mode) & verify the files before switching back to gaming mode.

[The Tear Collector]

thanks folks!