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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Steam deck shader cache files to shrink by 60 with a driver update | History Defined

Steam Deck storage screen

What you need to know

  • Valve's portable Steam Deck handheld runs a variant of the Linux operating system and an open-source video driver known as Mesa.
  • An upcoming update to Mesa includes improvements to a shader cache pipeline used by the Vulkan graphics API.
  • PC Gamer reached out to Valve and received confirmation that the update should reduce shader cache sizes by around 60%.
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