Emulation CEMU BOTW large shader caches are based on other games.

[Mikemk]

It appears shader caches larger than 14k shaders in CEMU contain Mario Kart and Xenoblade Chronicles shaders in addition to BOTW shaders. Please do not continue to distribute these caches as they result in reduced performance for users who do not have 32 GB RAM, in addition to drastically increased storage requirements.

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UPDATE: I've tested a smaller 9028 shader file, and it still used 30GB RAM, though saved ~970 MB on the hard drive. Performance remains the same. Also, people seem to be missing the point of this thread, it's not about the RAM needed, it's about the commonly used 19k shader file containing other game's shaders.

 

[Deleted User]

32GB RAM?! Wait, you're not serious, right?

 

[RustInPeace]

32GB RAM?! Wait, you're not serious, right?

I was thinking the same thing, when I got 32GB RAM, I thought that was excessive, wanted breathing room after all, but shiiit with this.

 

[smileyhead]

32 WHAT?!

 

[Mikemk]

32GB RAM?! Wait, you're not serious, right?

On NVIDIA GPUs, The drivers try to cache each shader in RAM, which creates performance issues if not enough is available. The 20,000 shader files take about 25-30GB.

 

[Deleted User]

On NVIDIA GPUs, The drivers try to cache each shader in RAM, which creates performance issues if not enough is available. The 20,000 shader files take about 25-30GB.

I'm speechless. Breath of the RAM*

 

[RustInPeace]

Is it that high if you're going for 4K quality? I'm not a resolution snob, 720p is a good minimum.

 

[Mikemk]

It's unrelated to render resolution, and not the point of this thread.

 

[raulpica]

32GB RAM?! Wait, you're not serious, right?

Feels good man

I suppose I should try running BOTW on my PC, then.

 

[Friendsxix]

Feels good man
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I suppose I should try running BOTW on my PC, then.

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Same. When I built my Hackintosh, I decided that I wanted to go overkill on RAM. Of course, it's in part due to the fact that I'm the type of moron that leaves 150 tabs open in a web browser for no reason, while playing games, with both Photoshop and Illustrator open in the background.

 

[Zanoab]

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Same. When I built my Hackintosh, I decided that I wanted to go overkill on RAM. Of course, it's in part due to the fact that I'm the type of moron that leaves 150 tabs open in a web browser for no reason, while playing games, with both Photoshop and Illustrator open in the background.

OSX made me enjoy running Windows in VMs so I can keep the superior trackpad controls on my Macbook Pro (pre-retina when they were user upgradable). At some point, I started multi-boxing and why mess with complicated conflicts when I can easily run as many VMs as I want?

 

[Deleted User]

Don't think this belongs in news, but very intresting nonetheless. 32GB, pretty crazy

 

[raulpica]

Don't think this belongs in news, but very intresting nonetheless. 32GB, pretty crazy

Seconded. Thread moved to WiiU section.

 

[Xalphenos]

Nice to read this. I've recently been suspecting something wasn't adding up with those large shader caches. I started suspecting them after adding quite a bit of shaders to that 16k one that came out shortly after botw was working in cemu. I could see adding some to it but since I added so many just in the great plateau I knew something had to be up. I actually started over just generating my own cache yesterday but I may try out one of the ones from the source link when 1.7.4 releases in a few days.

 

[kaicooper]

 

[Enteking]

A little bit off-topic but Is it possible to identify and delete (or replace with an empty file) this ugly greyish smog-fog shader (in the game files, not in the cache)? Maybe this would make it possible to play the game with better graphics and better performance, even on Wii-U.

 

[AlternativeZero]

I think I will just start from scratch and let the cache build itself normally over the course of my playthrough.

 

[nolimits59]

I was thinking the same thing, when I got 32GB RAM, I thought that was excessive, wanted breathing room after all, but shiiit with this.

Even without Cemu, i can use 32gb easy x), i do a LOT of photoshop and After effects in really high definition x).

But yeah, even 6k shader cache need 16gbat least.

It improve a LOT of micro freezes by the way to have cache, it improve thoses micro freeze better than the FPS to be honest ^^.

 

[Kurt91]

Wait, is this 32 GB from casual use, or are you doing something in particular to the game to make it look or run better? I was thinking of trying out Breath of the Wild on my PC one of these days, but I have more like 8 GB of RAM. (My computer isn't a beast, but I'm happy with it as-is. So far, I haven't found anything in particular that I haven't been able to throw at it and get working satisfactorily.)

 

[AlternativeZero]

Wait, is this 32 GB from casual use, or are you doing something in particular to the game to make it look or run better? I was thinking of trying out Breath of the Wild on my PC one of these days, but I have more like 8 GB of RAM. (My computer isn't a beast, but I'm happy with it as-is. So far, I haven't found anything in particular that I haven't been able to throw at it and get working satisfactorily.)

From reading around in the subreddit if you use a Nvidia GPU then it's a driver issue since for some reasons it massively increase RAM usage.