Steam Deck: Shader Cache Killer Rewamped

Rewamped script to Purge The Steam Decks Shader Cache & Compat Data

Steam Deck: Shader Cache Mover Rewamped

Rewamped script to Symlink selected games Shader Cache & Compat Data to the SD card or External Drive

Problem

With the 64GB version of the Steam Deck, "Other" can quickly fill your internal SSD even if you only store Games on the SD card, this "Other" is often Shader Cache & CompatData.

Solution?

To free up some of the space you can delete the Shader Cache and/or the Compat(ability) Data, the zShaderCacheKiller script aims to make that process a little easier.

Rather than deleting the Shader Cache or the Compat Data, the zShaderCacheMover script will copy & symlink selected games Shader Cache & Compat Data to the SD card or External Drive that the game is stored, freeing up the Internal Storage.

Is this safe?

USE AT OWN RISK

What results can I expect?

You can free up your internal Steam Deck disk.

How to use

Video Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGvTDGDUcY

Simple Install

Download this link to your Desktop (right click and save file) on your Steam Deck, remove the .download from the end of the file name, then double-click it.

This will install the scripts and create Steam entries.

Run online Via Curl

In Konsole type curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/introkun/Steam-Deck.Shader-Cache-Killer/main/zShaderCacheKiller.sh | bash to run zShaderCacheKiller

In Konsole type curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/introkun/Steam-Deck.Shader-Cache-Killer/main/zShaderCacheMover.sh | bash to run zShaderCacheMover

Install Via Curl

In Konsole type curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/introkun/Steam-Deck.Shader-Cache-Killer/main/curl_install.sh | bash

The install script will offer to add zShaderCacheKiller.sh & zShaderCacheMover.sh to your Steam Libaray, which can be ran from GameMode.

Reinstall/Update

• Open Desktop Mode
• Launch Steam app
• Remove zShaderCacheKillerRewamped.sh and zShaderCacheMoverRewamped.sh
• If you used Simple Install method then you can just launch "InstallZShaderCacheUtilities" desktop icon. It will download new scripts and install newer versions into Steam.

Uninstall

• To uninstall simply delete the install folder: sudo rm -r /home/deck/.local/share/introkun/SDSCK

• Also remove the non-steam game links in Steam

Found a Bug?

Please add to the issues tab! https://github.com/introkun/Steam-Deck.Shader-Cache-Killer/issues

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