Yes it is shadercache as you wrote.
But just to prove I’m not totally crazy, I included an image showing it only says “Updating” above the progress bar. Which is why I thought it was the game that was updating.
But hovering the (i) it says “shader pre-caching update.”
Then there’s the question why it needs to update shader cache nearly every time I’ve played the game?

Thanks, I’ll definitely check for that next time.

Funny, it always ran fine here? I just used the Proton version to get shift keys.
If it wasn’t for the Proton stuttering I would have stayed on that, IDK what causes this, but it’s not just Borderlands 2, I think it’s a problem in Steam, maybe because of my about 12 year old backed up steam folder that has somehow folded to old age? I’m planning on installing a new system soon, and when I do, I’ll only be copying over saved games data, and reinstall everything.

Thanks, live and learn. 😋

OK Thanks, the notification is gone now, but I’ll try next time.
But I thought shader cache was generated locally?

But aren’t those generated locally?

IDK, it actually just says “downloading 1 of 1 items”,
But AFAIK it doesn’t need to download to validate.
It just did it with Borderlaqnds GOTY Enhanced while I was playing Borderlands 2?
It only says downloaded and completed, nothing about why there was a download.
I started it by mistake, just before playing Borderlands 2, and skipped it before it was finished with shaders?

OK I didn’t know you could do that, this is very strange? Is there a way I can see a log of my steam downloads?
https://steamdb.info/sub/46441/
Says here May 2024 was latest update.
But it’s not just me, my wife also get these updates downloads?

OK but nothing apparently changes, and old bugs remain.

So it’s an outdated build, yet it gets frequent updates. That just makes it even weirder?
It’s not an issue as such, it only takes a few seconds, it just seems weird. Since nothing is fixed. The latest updates mentioned on the steam page are more than a year old.
I used the proton version earlier, that’s how I found out about the graphics issue. But for some reason my proton version began to stutter? So I went back to native Linux.

What is the purpose of the numerous updates, that as far as I can tell do nothing?

Issue 2:
“The Lost Treasure” quest, where you first get some maps in Sawtooth Cauldron, and then follow the clues in Caustic Caverns to activate the elevator. When you finally get to the chest, it cannot open. Apparently not everybody has this bug, but I have it EVFERY time!

If you cannot open the chest, just leave Caustic Caverns and reenter, and go back to the chest, and now for some reason it will open?!

Issue 1:
Tip to enable Dynamic lighting on Radeon Graphics.

If you use AMD Radeon graphics, Dynamic lighting is turned off, the game look A LOT BETTER with this on, and it has worked for years. Dynamic lighting enables the day/night cycle lights, without it, it’s always daylight, and things look flatter too.
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How to enable on AMD Radeon GPU:
Goto your home directory and show hidden files.
Open .local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/config/Willowengine.ini
Change DynamicLights=False to True

If you never saw Borderlands 2 with this setting on, you’ll be amazed.

Yes those you have to copy over and activate manually.

With Skyrim you just use Steam to install SKSE, then go to the workshop and download the mods you want. and Steam will do the rest for you.

True, but the problem is the article doesn’t say which CPU it replaces. And it can be hard to remember the naming schemes of all the different makers.
It’s so highly specked it looked almost like a flagship, but the 4nm confused me.
Pretty bad IMO that the article doesn’t even mention the name of the CPU they compare it to.

Ah yes I can never quite distinguish between redmi and realme.
I changed my comment because the article dosn’t really provide context. And I mixed up the CPU lines.

The naming convention of Dimensity chips are confusing, and this article doesn’t help at all on that.
Maybe read this instead for much better context:
https://www.gsmarena.com/mediatek_dimensity_8400_now_official_with_all_big_core_cpu_a_first_for_its_segment-news-65843.php

The 8400 is not a new flagship, but the new upper midrange.

I know it’s 100% subjective, but that’s one ugly phone IMO.
Also the hexagon shape will make it annoying to use when it’s on a flat surface.

I recommend Epos headsets. My GSP 370

Is it possible to detach the microphone?