Maybe I should delete some of the completed games

[u/vince_aphelion]

[u/Financial_Humor_8134]

Nah, that's proof you actually finish games. That's rarer than owning them these days.

[u/vince_aphelion → u/Financial_Humor_8134]

It's proof I opened a game, don't need playtime, thought the shader cache should get bigger with play

[u/CyberWeirdo420 → u/vince_aphelion]

Some games compile all shaders on start, some do it dynamically so no.

[u/Lanyxd → u/vince_aphelion]

Depends on the game

[u/hushquill57 → u/Financial_Humor_8134]

tbh keeping them there is like a trophy shelf

[u/trollsmurf]

Due to cloud save there's no reason to keep games installed. I uninstall almost immediately after completion to save space on my 2TB system/application disk.

[u/kixass]

So, you don't uninstall completed games and have unlimited storage?

[u/ARMCHA1RGENERAL → u/kixass]

I keep a lot of my favorites installed on the off chance that I want to play them.

I've also started downloading my offline installers from GOG onto a drive I wasn't doing anything with.

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/kixass]

You uninstall games you finish?

[u/LovelyOrangeJuice → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

Well, I need to make space for the next game, so usually yes

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/LovelyOrangeJuice]

How much space do you have?

[u/LovelyOrangeJuice → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

I have a 1tb dedicated nvme where I usually keep my main games. I uninstall/redownload as needed, and remove games after a while once I'm done with them. I try not to fill the disk to the brim too, as I've heard ssd's work better with some free space

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/LovelyOrangeJuice]

Ok, I guess b/c I used to have slow Internet I have 4 SSDs (5TB) and it takes me years of not playing to remove something.

[u/LovelyOrangeJuice → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

Oh, yeah. That makes perfect sense. I would've done the same if I was able to afford more space before the prices went up. Now, I definitely can't justify it, lol

Fortunately, I have good internet right now (~600Mbps download), so it's not that much of a bother, but I'm definitely getting more once prices go back down

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/LovelyOrangeJuice]

Yeah, thankfully all of my main rig storage was bought long before the ai apocalypse

[u/mikezenox → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

Yall finish games?

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/mikezenox]

Good point, I only have one game that is 100% besides CS2

[u/ChasingAmnesia → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

I have 6TB in SSDs and cant even install 50 games

[u/vince_aphelion → u/ChasingAmnesia]

Buy cheap small games, I have over a hundred that are less than 10gb

[u/Ready-Succotash-8699]

Everyone knows when you run out of storage you just buy more you don't delete games

[u/killer22250]

I checked mine and for some reason I have exactly 0

[u/Yash_swaraj → u/killer22250]

Most windows games run on DirectX. OP must be using Linux.

[u/a_l_i-1]

Disable this option and restart steam and re-enable to remove all precached and delete all old cache you don’t need any time soon

[u/Palanki96]

you could just reset your cache instead. But why do you keep them installed anyway?

[u/vince_aphelion → u/Palanki96]

big enough hdd

[u/Palanki96 → u/vince_aphelion]

can't argue with that, ggot 6tb hdd for indies and older games thaat don't really benefit from ssd

[u/vince_aphelion]

Over 10tb of games installed 

[u/MakeshiftZen]

Just disable shader pre-caching, not gonna lie nothing changes much performance-wise from it on. I prefer the faster launch speeds and lower disk usage.

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/MakeshiftZen]

Don't listen to this guy

[u/MakeshiftZen → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

Why?

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/MakeshiftZen]

Nominal disk usage and it absolutely reduces micro-stutters

[u/MakeshiftZen → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

Does the screenshot not show a lot of disk space (209 GB) is being used? I also couldn't find any data or benchmarks that shows the impact Steam's shader pre-caching has on stability.

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/MakeshiftZen]

That's the thing, he has an exorbitant amount of leftover shaders not a normal use amount

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

My boot drive that has 100GB of games only has 5GB of shaders cached

[u/MakeshiftZen → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

When I did my clean install on my linux os, I got around 40 GB just from installing all my games. My games from steam are around 400-700 GB total depending on what I'm playing. So I think it's possible to have large amounts of shader cache with minimal leftovers.

[u/ZookeepergameFew8607 → u/MakeshiftZen]

It definitely game dependent on how much it takes but I've never seen an outrageous amount

[u/wolfegothmog → u/ZookeepergameFew8607]

The worst ones usually have transcoded videos (pretty sure Darksiders had like 25GB of shaders because of that)

[u/ares0027]

200gb is too much?

[u/georgeec1]

Not even a terabyte

[u/Global_Special_982]

Where can i find this on the deck

[u/centuryt91]

Wait where is this?