Why it sometimes never stops compiling I can’t say, never had that happen personally. But it also depends on the amount of shaders (see above). After compilation it is fairly smooth even on the first match.Īs for “why does it take so long to compile”, that’s difficult to answer as we don’t know your hardware. If you run Overwatch without a shader cache you will notice a lot of hiccups for a long time until it builds up its cache, which is why Lutris provides one. My FF14 Shader cache for example is roughly 2.5MB, while the cache for Overwatch provided by Lutris is roughly 23MB. There are games that are very light on shaders, others are fairly heavy. Personally I just don’t want to deal with potential headaches so I just let the compilation run.

When it encounters an updated driver stack and therefore invalidated compiled shaders, it can re-compile them ahead of time based on the shader cache.Īn additional benefit is also that shader caches can be shared, because they are essentially just text files.Īs said before how this actually affects gameplay depends on a variety of factors. ive checked the log file in mygames/farmingsimulator2019 folder and it.

The solution that DXVK (which is the underlying project used in Proton) came up with is saving the shaders that it encounters during the games runtime in a file, the shader cache. FS 2019 wont launch FIXED hi, my game worked just fine yesterday and a littlebit today, but now my game crashes all the time and when i start it i just get black screen for like 3 seconds and then it shuts down, my resolution changes on my other screen when this happens. This is normal and can’t be circumvented, the issue with that however is that it takes away CPU cycles for the compilation which - depending on the game and overall load - can result in performance dips or short hangs where nothing can be rendered (because no shader = nothing to render).Ĭompiled shaders are also incompatible between driver versions, so simply saving the compiled shaders somewhere doesn’t work. To be used under Linux they need to be compiled usually using LLVM, or on newer versions of Mesa using ACO as shader compilers. Shaders are used for a variety of things.

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