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Steam keeps downloading small files and checking installs!

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7988 · opened 2021-08-13 by jarrard · updated 2021-08-13 · 2 comments · github
Jjarrard 2021-08-13 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Aug 11 2021, at 17:14:33
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro Plasma
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes]
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

It seems Steam keeps downloading little files for many games when I restart. This seems wrong.

Screenshot_20210813_205555

https://gist.github.com/jarrard/83901432e10599bab09c96d6ba471f0d

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Reboot / Restart Steam
  2. Look in DOWNLOADS
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-08-13 github

Hello @jarrard, this looks like the current intended behavior for Steam's shader pre-caching sub-component. It should be noted that older Steam client releases had these relatively small updates as well, but without as much visibility or end-user control over the cache updates. You can confirm this by monitoring ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/shader_log.txt as those updates come in.

Jjarrard 2021-08-13 github

Hello @jarrard, this looks like the current intended behavior for Steam's shader pre-caching sub-component. It should be noted that older Steam client releases had these relatively small updates as well, but without as much visibility or end-user control over the cache updates. You can confirm this by monitoring ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/shader_log.txt as those updates come in.

So it just does this endlessly? its only started doing this since the big steam update recently. Also the downloads are not marked as Shader Cache like they normally would be.

shader_log.txt

Nothing extracted yet.