shader pre-caching content (doom eternal every day with this?)

[Dr_Acula_]

Seems like for the past 2-3 weeks, every day I log into steam and the doom eternal game is going through a 3-5 minute process called 'shader pre-caching content'. Today it was 512 mb.
During the process, the green 'play' button says 'validating' (the game).

Anyone know why this is going on now for doom eternal?

Never did that before for doom eternal (have owned the game since a it went on sale in summer 2020 - but I admit I haven't played it a whole lot yet).
No other game in my steam library does this.

I thought maybe it was because when a person doesn't log into the game itself for a couple weeks, the game has to do some pre-cache thing?
But nope.
Even after I log into the game and play (albeit briefly), the whole process occurs the next time I log into steam.

It's not a big deal.....but I will admit it is becoming so annoying that I am honestly thinking of uninstalling doom eternal just so I don't have to see that process going on every time I log into steam.

Thanks for any help or explanation.
(I searched these discussions and didn't see the topic posted from someone else.)

[Wryyyong]

There's an explanation for this in your Steam Client settings:

Shader Pre-Caching allows Steam to download pre-compiled GPU shaders matching your system configuration. This allows Vulkan and OpenGL games to load faster and improves framerate stability during gameplay.

If enabled, Steam will collect shaders from your system when needed. Enabling this feature may slightly increase disk and bandwidth usage.

[Dr_Acula_]

Hey man, thanks for the Steam Client settings reminder.

However, I'm just so frustrated.

I will just have to uninstall doom eternal since Steam is doing Shader pre-caching content every single day for doom eternal regardless whether the steam client setting is enabled or not enabled.

Again, this happens just logging into steam, not the game itself.
Also, it only started to happen about 2-3 weeks ago. It did not do this for the first 3 months of owning the game and having it downloaded into my steam library (and having played it a little bit.)

July 5, 2020 bought doom eternal and downloaded it and played it.
No shader pre-caching content occured from July 6 to end-of-Sept 2020.

Since the end-of-Sept 2020 (around the time that Halloween stuff started):
Enabled and don't play = steam still does shader pre-caching content (spcc).
Enabled and do play = steam still does spcc.
Not enabled and don't play = steam still does spcc.
Not enabled and do play = steam still does spcc.

So something is borked with steam or doom eternal or my system and I don't play doom eternal enough to go through this daily routine of shader pre-caching content.

Doom 2016 does not do this. No problem there.

(system is Ryzen 7 1800X 8-core; Nvidia GTX 1080 windforce 8 Gb; 32Gb ddr4 ram)

But thanks for the reply, I really do appreciate any thoughts.

[|SacK| Holzi]

I got the same problem. It is annoying as feck, especially when you got slow internet connection.