I just got my system all set up and using KDE Neon distro. I got Steam installed and been playing a few games that work fantastically.

My biggest issue is that the shaders take a very long time.

So far I’ve played Ghost Recon Wildlands and Ready or Not and both took longer than the download of the game. Like 30 minutes.

I was okay with this as a first time setup sort of thing, but it seems it did this on first two starts of the game. On the third time opening Ghost Recon Wildlands, I didn’t see this again.

But my question is, is there any way I can speed this up and is this normal to take this long? I remember shaders taking a minute on Windows too on this same machine, but never this long. At most, 10 minutes, but never more than that.

My setup:

• KDE Neon User Edition
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600
• PNY RTX 4080 Super
• 64GB DDR4 RAM
• 2TB Samsung 860 Evo SSD