• exuA
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    SCSKiller looks at game files and tries to compile any shaders it finds. This is supposed to reduce stuttering during gameplay due to shader compilation.

    The impact varies game to game, depending on how bad that particular title is with shader stuttering. HardwareUnboxed on YouTube did some benchmarks and found some cases where it gives you massive gains while others are the same or worse than the baseline without SCSKiller.

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        Yeah, Steam is even better. It shares pre-compiled shader binaries as a download among users who have the same GPU configuration. The caveat is that it all depends on the game’s underlying graphical technology, and not all of them are compatible.