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 3 weeks ago
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I think Valve or others have proposed creating a standard for this for just this purpose.
BlessedDog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t fossilize exactly that? A serialisation format for shaders.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That might be the one I was thinking of. It rings a bell.