Often when I launch a game through Steam that “processing Vulkan shaders” window appears and loads for a couple minutes. Sometimes it takes no time, sometimes it takes several minutes. But then, for larger games like Dune Awakening or Outer Worlds 2, the game needs to sit and process shaders for another couple minutes anyway. But for some games, like Enshrouded, I can skip the Vulkan processing with no problems in the game (I do that because the Vulkan processing doesn’t go anywhere). So what is that Vulkan processing for?

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Experimental gets updated waaay more often than the other, stable branches, they don’t push out a whole announcement every time.

    So, every time one of those updates comes in, even if its just like 2.6 mb?

    Time to potentially recompile all your shaders, for potentially everything.

    I also use Experimental, but you gotta realize that by using it, … you’re a guinea pig.