SCSKiller Tool Aims To Eliminate GPU Shader Stutters For Free
Game hitching and stuttering is the enemy of a good experience. It's a plague on modern gaming, though it's far from exclusively a modern affliction; we just notice it more because we have higher expectations and lower frame times. A significant source of stuttering is "shader compilation", where the graphics program source code in a game has to be compiled into a format that your GPU—yes, your specific card—can execute. If you're tired of shader compilation stutters, help may be here in the form of 'SCSKiller', a new app that promises to eliminate them.
How does it do that? Well, easy: by pre-compiling them. Most games actually attempt to do this on launch these days; if you've played a recent PC game in the last few years, you've probably observed a lengthy pause on the first load that, if it doesn't outright say "Compiling shaders" likely says something like "preparing...
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