Steam Shader Pre-Caching

Shader pre-caching is a feature designed to improve your gaming experience by downloading and compiling shaders before you launch a game. This reduces in-game stuttering and loading times, especially in graphically intensive titles. However, there are times when you might...

Few things test a gamer’s patience like staring at a loading screen while shaders compile, especially when it happens every single time you launch the game. Even more alarming is when your CPU fans spin up to jet-engine levels and...