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MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR

11 threads 2 games 22 mentions 2017-09 to 2025-07

MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR appears in 11 issue threads across the Proton, DXVK, vkd3d-proton and Steam trackers. The values people posted, and the games they posted them for, are listed below.

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Values people posted
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR7
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=<HOME>/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/<APP_ID>2
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/data/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/49201
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/chevek/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_gl_321
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/chevek/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_gl_641
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/chevek/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_vk_321
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/chevek/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_vk_641
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/chevek/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1056001
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/jbosboom/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/2758501
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_gl_321
Games discussing it
Apex Legends™5 mentions
Sweet Transit2 mentions
Threads
Steam not caching shaders on Fedora 38 Beta steamclosed5 mentions
Apex Legends protonopen5 mentions
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR points to an invalid (non-existent) directory due to case-sensitivity issues steamclosed2 mentions
Sweet Transit protonopen2 mentions
How to use multiple shader caches. protonopen2 mentions
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_{DIR,MAX_SIZE} is deprecated steamopen1 mentions
Proton to Wine - Path Problems protonclosed1 mentions
Steam Deck - Heroic Launcher - Bioshock Remastered - 'dxvk::DxvkError' dxvkclosed1 mentions
Force arbitrary steam-level regeneration of Vulkan shaders steamclosed1 mentions
Shader Cache is Being Downloaded and Compiled After Every Single Reboot steamopen1 mentions
[New UI] Bad user experience for launching any game (hidden shader processing) steamopen1 mentions

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