I think it's just the game, because I also run Linux and NMS is the only game that does this. No other game that I can think of is routinely downloading relatively large updates like this.
Since I've switched to linux, a lot of games have been starting doing shader pre-caching updates regularly. Might be that.
For me, the Vulcan shader pre-caching is different. It is a pop up with a percentage indicator. This is a regular steam update like it used to be on windows.
I get those popups too at times, but they are not what I am referring to. The shader pre-chaching updates I mentioned work in the same way you described your phenomenon, through the regular update menu.
Interesting. I get the vulcan shader render popups every single time, on all games. But only NMS will dowonload updates like this through steam
Welcome to Linux. Where you’ll spend more time monitoring and updating your dependencies than actually using the software.
Sorry - that is not true. Actually i have never done that (at least not manually), and don't even know what updating dependencies means. It runs all updates automatically and has not failed once. I have run Linux for half a year, and only used the terminal a couple of times to adjust some weird thing that did not work out of the box. Linux has come a long way!
What took the longest time, was getting to learn new software instead of the usual suspects, like Photoshop and DaVinci
For my two mints, Ubuntu, arch, and various arm instances it absolutely is. Guess you don’t do much.
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