chrg6 a1fcbb0b07 Name NVIDIA's Shader Cache Size limit when the library warm finds the driver's cache cold. ...

The driver keeps the prepared shaders' libraries in its shader cache, and under Windows that cache has a size limit
set in NVIDIA's settings. A limit smaller than the set drops the oldest libraries as new ones come in (a 2048 MB cache
could not hold them on the reporter's RTX 5070 Ti), so every start builds them again in the background and play
stutters until that is done. The cold lines of the library warm now say so on NVIDIA under Windows, most plainly when
the cache is cold right after a warm that finished on the same driver; the build kit's notes and the example file say
it too. tests/warm_hint_check.py checks which hint each case gets.

From pull request #403 by tarballz; two conflicts resolved (an include and the build kit's notes).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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images

Translate every shader, keep atomic loops from spinning on stale values, harden pool teardown, and update the README.

2026-11-07 18:03:20 -05:00

releases

Describe the Linux changes, the event wakes and the log thread in the 0.7.0 notes, and thank their authors.

2026-11-10 07:40:20 -05:00

architecture.md

Keep a texture's finalization on its registered slots, so a stale slot stays stale after its image was evicted.

2026-11-10 09:13:08 -05:00

audio-input.md

Capture the default microphone for Ocarina input streams

2026-11-09 08:19:19 -05:00

building.md

Name NVIDIA's Shader Cache Size limit when the library warm finds the driver's cache cold.

2026-11-10 09:13:35 -05:00

controls.md

Add Steam Deck button prompts beside the Xbox and PlayStation ones (prompts = steamdeck).

2026-11-10 06:53:30 -05:00

installer.md

Set NVIDIA's shader disk cache on Linux only with NVIDIA's driver, in a folder that could be made and written, before any thread of the game starts.

2026-11-10 06:17:13 -05:00

launcher.md

Add Steam Deck button prompts beside the Xbox and PlayStation ones (prompts = steamdeck).

2026-11-10 06:53:30 -05:00

maxwell.md

Seal the texture pool set when an early replay part is submitted.

2026-11-09 20:52:40 -05:00

protection-research.md

Land the shader and pipeline stutter pass, and the fixes it needed.

2026-11-09 03:34:46 -05:00

README-BuildKit.md

Name NVIDIA's Shader Cache Size limit when the library warm finds the driver's cache cold.

2026-11-10 09:13:35 -05:00

shader-delivery-research.md

Land the shader and pipeline stutter pass, and the fixes it needed.

2026-11-09 03:34:46 -05:00