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Valve will magically free up space on your Steam Deck.
Did you know the Steam Deck downloads pre-cached shaders from Valve’s servers so games launch faster? It’s awesome — but they can take up a bunch of room on your SSD. Hear this: PCGamer confirmed with Valve (via Phoronix) that those caches are about to shrink by 60 percent.
It won’t shrink cutscenes and intro videos that Valve has to transcode for legal and technical reasons, though.
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