Processing Vulkan shaders

Multiple times per day, there's a 1GB+ patch on Steam, which then results in having to "Process Vulkan shaders" when you launch.

This is getting old fast as it takes anywhere between 1-5 minutes (RTX 4090).

God forbid you quit the game to do something else for a bit, then come back to it having to patch + process shaders again.

You can turn that off in Steam's Settings->Download->Shader Pre-Caching.

Doing so might, or might not, cause slightly longer area loading times and/or micro-stuttering in the game. Try it and see.