FIXED: Shader Cache issues in Linux (Steam w/ Proton & Nvidia GFX)

Hello,

I was experiencing extremely long load times between areas. Finally, when areas did load many assets were missing shaders, resulting in invisible monsters and attacks (died to this a few times). Fixed in with the following:

1) Going back to older drivers (Nvidia 5.35)

2) Deleting shader caches, then Giving PoE 2 an untilimted disk cache.

Run options: __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 gamemoderun %command% --nologo --waitforpreload

You don't need nologo, but waitforpreload is important. Using older drivers made an immediately noticeable difference.

Hope this helps someone in the the 0.001% of players using Linux. :D
Last bumped on Nov 1, 2025, 6:09:30 PM
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