hyperreal.coffee

Capturing and sharing Proton logs

1. Right-click on the game in Steam and select Properties.
2. Under Launch Options, add the following:

1PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_LOG_DIR=/home/jas/steam-proton-logs %command%

game-performance

To use CachyOS’s game-performance script to switch power profiles while a game is running, add the following to each Steam game’s Launch Options:

1game-performance %command%

Combined with the Proton logging options:

1PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_LOG_DIR=/home/jas/steam-proton-logs game-performance %command%

Pre-caching shaders with Proton-CachyOS, -GE and -EM

Pre-caching of shaders is not needed on CachyOS, as Proton-CachyOS already contains all the necessary codecs.

1. Go to Steam Setttings -> Downloads
2. Go to the SHADER PRE-CACHING section
3. Disable Shader Pre-caching
4. Disable Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders