For the past 6 days, I’ve received 5 updates of more than a Gigabyte!
What are these updates? Although the game has very few issues, they are never fixed!

Edit:
Apparently it’s not updates, but downloads of undermined purpose?

  • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I dunno about you update issues, But one thing I have to point out is the Linux native version of BL2 is an outdated build so if you want to play co-op with Windows players you have to run it through proton.

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      3 months ago

      So it’s an outdated build, yet it gets frequent updates.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.

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    3 months ago

    Acording to SteamDB, there has been no updates. I didn’t manually check all of the 355 depots though. I’d guess it’s either shader cache, corrupted game files, or a bug in Steam.

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      3 months ago

      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?

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        3 months ago

        Are you sure it’s not just validating? Like, do you actually lose a GB of space on your drive every day?

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          3 months ago

          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?

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            3 months ago

            If you hover over the (i) symbol next to the title, you’ll see that’s a shader cache update.

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      3 months ago

      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?

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    3 months ago

    Native borderlands 2 looks and runs like ass in my experience. The game was basically unrecognizable until I ran it in proton.

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      3 months ago

      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.