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Rowboat Mar 25, 2018 @ 3:19pm

Shader Pre-Caching won't enable

Hi there,

I've got a problem that I haven't been able to find adressed elsewhere, at least since it was in beta (when there was no solution).

When trying to turn on Shader Pre-Caching, the box won't stay checked. I'll click enable, click OK, but when I return to the pre-caching tab in preferences, the box is unchecked.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution?

I've got a Mid 2014 Macbook Pro 15" Retina, running macos High Sierra 10.13.3. Using the onborard Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB GPU (for obvious reasons, I was hoping to give it all the help it can get).

Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

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Originally posted by aiusepsi:

Shader pre-caching isn't supported on Mac, because it needs support from the driver vendor and Apple haven't provided it.

Really, the bug is that that the shader caching section appears at all in the settings. It doesn't do anything, so it shouldn't be there.