That makes sense, thank you.
They run differently based on the hardware you have. They can and might precompile for consoles, but there’s no way for them to know what everyone’s different pc set up is until it’s installed.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Fun fact: Steam (at least on Linux) shares caches between users with the same hardware.
Easier to happen on the Deck since it’s the same hardware for all, but even on my desktop PC I’ve seen it downloading and uploading shaders often.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think Valve or others have proposed creating a standard for this for just this purpose.
BlessedDog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t fossilize exactly that? A serialisation format for shaders.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That might be the one I was thinking of. It rings a bell.