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 18 hours ago
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 18 hours 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 17 hours ago
I think Valve or others have proposed creating a standard for this for just this purpose.
BlessedDog@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Isn’t fossilize exactly that? A serialisation format for shaders.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That might be the one I was thinking of. It rings a bell.