Steam processing Vulkan shaders take very long on some games | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

plucky meadow Jun 9, 2025, 2:13 AM

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Any tips? I have a dual drive dual boot windows and Linux mint systems and noticed TF2 is exceptionally slow to boot using Proton-GE or Linux Runtime 3.0

mighty flax Jun 9, 2025, 3:47 AM

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Go to Steam > Settings > Downloads > at the bottom enable Both shader pre-caching and background processing.
If you just installed a game the shaders have to process, it really takes long even with the beefies cpus, but if you let in the background any update forward will be painless

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One thing to notice, don't get scared if you see a bunch of "fossilized_replay" that's the shader background cache

plucky meadow Jun 9, 2025, 5:14 AM

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Amazing thanks for the reply i'll let you know how i get on, i found advice online but all arch focused

#Steam processing Vulkan shaders take very long on some games