Game install downloads shader content first

steamclosed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6291 · opened 2019-05-27 by XakepSDK · updated 2021-10-22 · 3 comments · github

XXakepSDK 2019-05-27 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): May 22 2019, at 21:55:41
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Install 7 days to die
1 shader content install download appears in downloads list
After it downloaded, another shader content download appears (with different size)
After this repeats some times, game download starts

Hh1z1 2019-05-27 github

Beat me to it, noticed this yesterday.

Nnightsky30 2019-05-29 github

I've also found that shader content seems to be downloaded every time I start the steam client for the SAME games that I've already downloaded the shader cache for MANY times.

Is this normal? and if so, WHY?!?!?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-10-22 github

Closing as this is the intended behavior when Steam's shader pre-caching is enabled to allow background shader processing some time to process the pre-caching content while the game content update downloads.

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