Valve's Driver Updates Free Up Storage Space for Steam Deck Games
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Valve is reducing the size of Steam Deck's shader cache files by approximately 60% through an update to the Mesa graphics driver. This will free up more space for games on the handheld PC, which has limited internal SSD memory. However, the reduction in file size may not apply to all games, as it won't change the size of transcoded video depots marked as "shader pre-caching" in the UI.
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- Valve is about to slash the file sizes of the Steam Deck's SSD-hogging shader caches in half PC Gamer
- Steam Deck shader cache files to shrink by 60% with a driver update Windows Central
- Your Steam Deck is about to get more storage space PCWorld
- Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck GamingOnLinux
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