How To Delete NVIDIA Cache to FIX Game Stutter & Performance issues 2024 ✅

[@branden26x]

Fixed my system I have a brand new build 4080 super and 7800x3d and I was getting crazy frame drops from high frames 230 down to 4 in call of duty and I even dropped my graphics nothing still did it set my frames at 60 just to see and still did it. Now after doing this I get a steady 230 to 180. Thanks man this video was a life saver been so stressed.

[@diogoleca07]

I have a 7800x3d 3070ti lot fps but crashes

[@christophnewberry2429]

i have the same problem. after reading your comment i had high hopes. Sereval days of trying to fix it. This didnt fix it for me. damn.

[@branden26x]

@@christophnewberry2429 what all you got going on man.

[@christophnewberry2429]

@@branden26x looks like one of my ddr4s got loose when putting in the new cpu lol. I only noticed when looking for new RAM that the hardware scanner website only showed 1 of them.

[@branden26x]

@@christophnewberry2429 well that’s good. It sucks to have issues going on with are pcs after spending so much money. I’m glad you figured it out.

[@Mista_Mist]

holy shii, the stutters actually stopped, I thought it was my computer overheating or something, but so far I've had 0 sudden frame drops. Thanks for the help!

[@marsovac]

one thing to note: do this only if you have problems because in 99.99% of the cases this is just a waste of time that does nothing and detrimental to the game experience since you need to wait for shader rebulding again.

[@masic.]

Worked amazing for me, I play Microsoft Flight sim and deleted my shader cache, instant 10fps gain which is huge in Flight sim

[@DylanOConnor]

Don't know what would hurt.. Just gotta rebuild the shader cache the first time...then it's good.

[@reidbailes4422]

So I have a problem nvidia isn't showing up in my files , said the location changed for the cash after the 511 update

[@reidbailes4422]

Can't find it

[@CHECHENRB]

@@reidbailes4422 Install it again

[@user-eh9uy3cr2p]

My gosh. I feel this should be a 1 click mission.

[@jackr.749]

Agreed, I could never understand why nVidia didn't make the cleaning of shader cache a 1 click deal in the nVidia control panel, AMD's Adrenaline software has this feature which is handy. I use mostly nVidia GPUs but do have a 6900xt, I do like the Adrenaline software suite as compared to the nVidia's control panel.

[@younevertears]

I hate Nvidia control panel and geforce experience they are biggest flaws over amd, none of them have temperature color changer, and they look extremely outdated, and obviously lacks a lot of features

[@jackr.749]

@@younevertears Personally, I don't use or install GeForce Experience, too much of a resource hog with very little purpose.

[@TITANa7x]

Nvidia is great and all buttttt AMD there software lets you click one button to reset cache and shaders 😅

[@ibanez0711]

1: deleted and installed fresh the Nvidia drivers - went from 30 to 60 fps. 2: did what you said in this video - went from 60 to 90 fps. Thank you (i7-9800x, 32gb RAM, 4060ti 16gb, FS2020)

[@Nav1st]

bro pls upgrade your cpu the reason why ur system is slow it cuz of ur cpu

[@ibanez0711]

@@Nav1st I would love to upgrade - don't have the money, right now. Hence why I am grateful for the video; it helped. Thanks for the heads up about the cpu.

[@genlongtsang1093]

@@ibanez0711same

[@gamertechlive1780]

@@Nav1st I'm using 3700x , give up money if you want us to upgrade.. This is the reason why we do tweak BIOS & Windows.

[@III_DarkAngel]

Thanks for fixing a major issue I was having, it's nice to FINALLY come across a fix/tutorial that is actually useful instead of some AI voice telling me to turn the power on and off again.

[@SkitBit]

You sir, are an absolute legend!! I have been getting tons of crashes on my 4090 rig and has been driving mad as everything looked spot on. Followed your steps on this video precisely, set the shader cache at the end back to 10GB after cleaning everything out and not a single crash since (was happening multiple times in just 1 hour on various games). I think NVIDIA should watch this and take note. Their install process for driver updates should be doing this automatically. Thank you again! Brilliant!

[@Rice-EChickenGaming]

As always thank you for these videos. Been so helpful over the years. ❤

[@xialabs1977]

Thanks so much for the video! My video was lagging, freezing up and it was becoming a chore to even copy and paste after the programs ran for a few minutes. CPU % usage was from 40 to 100%. CPU Temp was running about 170 -189F. Now CPU usage is now about 5% and as low as 2% running the same programs that I was running before, and now CPU temp is about 116F. I have spent hours and knocked myself out trying to solve this problem. I am so glad I came across your video. AWSOME!!! Using Acer laptop with Nivida 3060 graphics. Running smooth and seamless now.

[@travissimpson3199]

Yo thanks so much i stop playing eso a few months ago because of performance issues some how came across this video followed your instruction jumped on to eso and games running amazing thank you

[@cyrusmoini8676]

What a stud! I cant tell you how much i appreciate the work you do, Mr. Panjno. I've learned SO MUCH from watching your videos. Keep up the great work brother :-)

[@Panjno]

Haha thank you :)

[@Kawoaa]

@@Panjno im so lazy i'd probably just 'Format C: /q'

[@bnielsen7000]

Try read a real Windows Bible, then you'll know a lot more than he does!

[@cyrusmoini8676]

Oh boy here we go. @@bnielsen7000 I've been watching Panjno's videos for YEARS. The videos are well made, tremendously informative, easy to follow and otherwise helpful. These optimization videos can be tricky if you yourself are not relatively meticulous and pay close attention to what is being said and done. I'm cool with the way he does things, he's usually on the ball and gives fair warnings and disclaimers where need be. Sorry sir but i wont let you throw arrogant shade at my guy like that. 86.

[@hermicks]

Bro omg, you the freaking goat, i tried every dang thing and couldn't feel my game getting better I was getting constant stutters and freezing at times... After doing this I've been having no issues, game running smooth like some trucks on a overwaxed rail... you the goat

[@hermicks]

okay no I lied i still stuftter, but it's less often

[@reidbailes4422]

How did you find your nvidia cash 511 doesn't show for me if I do this

[@MrRickPatel]

Wow this is amazing, bo6 was stuttering out of no where, cleared the cache and upped the nvidia cache to 100gb and after it was smooth as👍 thanks!

[@NinjaGamingTV88]

thnx alot man I'm glad I found this video. I was having packet loss issues on mw3 and high latency issues and all the ways people explain to fix it did not help. I followed the instructions you gave and all that trouble went away I played 4 matches with zero issues now.

[@frankmjr6571]

Thank you!! All the info on this had the DXCache folder in a different location. Great video

[@hellblazer44]

thanks a lot @Panjno, I've recently bought a RTX 4070 and was wondering, why the heck I'm getting stutters in WoW....The FPS was spiking from high to mid and again to high (unbalanced) and some mechanics like in Raid and M+ were unplayable, I was frustrated till now. Again Kudos for this!!!

[@RayZ__5]

I don’t know how all these years ur still making all these videos but i gotta say, one of the best guiders out there keep it up man 👍🏻🌹 Tried ur setups for several stuff and didn’t experience any chronic issues at all 💯

[@steveramundo4946]

Yes but did it fix anything?

[@RayZ__5]

@@steveramundo4946 if it didn’t improve something it won’t break anything.

[@wyatt40259]

it solved my fps drop in last epoch ^_^ @@steveramundo4946

[@tuckeriftictommy236]

If you are running an old device and are having lag / stutter issues; this really does help 🙏 the first step I was not able to do as the folder he had, I did not; but I followed all other steps and managed to get my Day Z running from low setting with stutter lag, to a mix of medium / extreme settings with a steady hard cap fps of 60 🙏 this along side some other steps really can make a 13 year old pc with a GTX 970, 8gb Ram and I5 processor run like new again 🙏 might only be temporary but consistent maintenance really does help 🙏

[@dnnyed1229]

u r the best friend I never had bro !!!!!!! seriously been into gpus since my first pc way back when.... and I was obsessed with performance optimisation of my system and never found anyone like u man, keep up ur work bro just subbd to you !!!! ur guides r god sent !!!

[@stevenrudish5773]

This guy is the best of the best at getting you the most out of you PC by optimization!!! Thank you bud love the videos keep up the great work 🤘

[@stawsky]

Man wake up. Problem is with those type of tutorials that they never shown Before and After. I did try many of them and I really never experienced any proper improvements. What about You ?? Any improvements ??

[@Blue-Dreams719]

@@stawsky Exactly. This guy changes so many settings in one video and then you see he revert them in his other videos. These are not stable solutions.

[@interbi8087]

Лучший! Были фризы из-за прогрузки шейдеров, теперь все четко) Спасибо тебе!)

[@jasonbrody6837]

From 250+ To 290+ FPS I have on Apex Legends Stutter Freeze is gone thank you soo much it works!

[@genlongtsang1093]

Really?

[@goldenglove8513]

​@@genlongtsang1093nah. He's probably just saying it

[@St1mi]

Excellent vid, straight to the point and extremely concise. Appreciate it!

[@0ldPlayer]

thank you so much i had no idea how this worked

[@fulmetalraven1]

Thanks, man. I think this fixed my issues with the restart bug.

[@102allenwalker]

Thank you so much , so many of my games been stuttering,thought I have to get new parts

[@spas6128]

I have no "Nvidia" folder in "LocalLow"

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzsjrufrjducujdj]

the folder “DXCache” can be found in the NVIDIA folder where you first deleted the GLCache files

[@GabeGabe-w4e]

thank you so much it took a while to settle in and fix the problem after the process of the shader cache thing but it works good now thanks

[@Matt-pn7cq]

can you make a guide for the finals please, would really appreciate it

[@BlueLineVibes]

Thanks I appreciate the vid

[@pxtrey]

Np gang

[@jonocooper3869]

Thanks for the update as always Panjino. Not sure if it's something that people would find useful, but my system drive is actually pretty small, but i have a SSD 256 GB system drive, a 2 TB SSD and a 2TD normal hdd. I tend to make use of a hardlink linking the DXCache and the GLCache onto my bigger SSD drive, which is pretty easy to do, and for people who are pushed on hard drive space on their system drive and want to use the 100 GB or unlimited shader cache size this could be useful. Just a thought.

[@mainuser98]

How to do it?

[@benf7958]

Simply amazing 😊... This solved my issue.. Thank you so much

[@8anidoron903]

That really worked!!! Thank you so much!!!!!❤

[@liftedcj7on44s]

clearing the shader cache will just make it have to be rebuilt again, that in turn will cause you to get stutters when you start the game again. The default shader cache size for Nvidia is 4gb, You could install 100 games and not even use up 50mb from the shader files from all those games.

[@def-po8tu]

It may resolve corruption issues with shader cache tho

[@pvtvenom]

I mean I have 4 games installed and 192mb of shader cache.

[@earnestleesaddened3779]

Thank you for the Shader cache size info, it will make my decision in the Nvidia control panel much easier.

[@goldenglove8513]

Hmm. Seems it's working for pep

[@cristiancolon4257]

This helped so much ! I just got into pc gaming and bought a build off a friend and found myself upgrading the gpu since i play on demand games like cod and for some weird reason I was getting minimal but noticeable tear in the screen when moving too fast or even just playing casually but with these steps it stopped any screen tearing I had. thank you so much man!

[@genlongtsang1093]

Same

[@hagridsbeardguy1399]

Thanks for the awesome video mate! I'm really curious about which DayZ standalone mod you had on display at the end of the video - looks epic! Cheers

[@bit-ogaming6538]

if anyone can't find the other folders try "show hidden files" might help

[@Maxovico]

BRO YOU SAVED MY LIFE THESE STUTTERS ARE ALMOST ALL GONE

[@1999driftwood]

Excellent video, helped me a ton!

[@WaspMedia3D]

For the AMD equivalent, just open "global graphics" in Adrenaline, in the advanced section click the "reset shader cache" button.

[@glokburgh]

Preciate it Panjno

[@Panjno]

Thank you for the support!

[@johnlorenzo1074]

Awesome, it did work for me 🙏🏻, how often would you recomended doing this ?

[@purpleeight1640]

Thank you! I think it worked! 🔥🔥🔥

[@LadyChurrusChan]

this helps me with opera gx twitch stuttering/bufferring, it wasnt my internet, now its not stuttering anymore tks panjino S2

[@hamasakbar3353]

thanks brev worked like wonders

[@leo88112]

this helps!no more stutter when i play re4 mercenaries mode

[@tombonneraz]

Worked great for me. Thank you for the helpful video!

[@brendan974]

Oh wow so there they are lmao. Awesome vid thanks man. I was having mad issues with cyberpunk today was trying everything... randomly seen this vid. And boom fixed. Runs like butter again and no it didnt stutter first starting up. It just ran straight off the bat, rtx 4080. Couldn't believe how many cache folders i had

[@reidbailes4422]

Can't find the shader cash after the 511 and can't find the new folder for the cash

[@marrah6219]

This solved 10 hours of frustration ❤❤❤

[@thundertears]

Thankyou budd it working beautifully now

[@D0mie7]

Wow, I did not know about all this other shader cache apart from disk cleanup, thanks dude!

[@Sarcaustik]

You're a legend sir. No more stuttering.

[@danielpena-un8vl]

love you man! thanks

[@MultiSqrt]

THANK YOU !!!

[@GenX-Gamore]

Thank you for the rundown on this issue, I sure will share it, I am interested in the FPS counter you are using and can it be captured by obs.

[@tonygee3284]

Thanks for your help

[@SamsonKiRA]

This really helped me ... 😊

[@myharley1100]

Thank you so much i wanted GTA V but i didnt have space now i do! THANK YOU.

[@mercianeightseven]

Perfect, Thanks for this. I noticed the Cache files had been moved from where they used to be and this helped. Thanks for this video!

[@outsidein3206]

Ahh, i see my error, i'd not turned off the the shaders and restarted. Following a tip from another source, it said to clear out the cache in the App data section, which was only half the job. iirc nothing about turning it off first, in the nvdiot control panel, which srsly needs some updating a bettier skin at least lol. Thanks for tips and liked

[@ComeonmenID10T]

or you just set the Shader Cache Size to 512Mb so you only have the latest Cache ( will be overwritten by new ones ) and not for Month upon Month stored

[@choppermty]

Todo esto me vuelve loco, cuando desactivo el cache del sombreador y borro los archivos tal como en el video el juego me va genial pero tartamudea, pero si pongo el shader cache en 10gb o ilimitado, el juego no tartamudea nada, pero no l o siento fluido, siento que va como con retraso JAJAJA hasta el escritorio se siente lento, vere si tu consejo ayuda, nunca lo había pensado..

[@bplusp1135]

thank you so much

[@anuranjanzentr.8443]

thanks mr panjo

[@Shobit_Singh]

Hey pan please create a video on optimize win 11 for gaming I know that you already make that but I trust on your new videos ❤❤

[@Kaynos]

Some games like Assassin's Creed will not show the shaders being recompiled, instead it will look like your game is hanging for a minute or more, this is the shaders being compiled in the background, do not close your game, let it complete, it will only do this once.

[@doityourself3293]

New Video Cards are much faster at producing shaders info than the speed of the M.2 drives data. The M.2 Drives no matter how fast they are slow down the video data coming to the screen. Any RTX-4060 or higher is faster than any M.2 data flow rate. Nivida was suppose to dump shader cache in total with all the new cards. You would need a drive with an I/O speed of like 12000+ to see any difference in video speed. Then shader might work better. If your running some 8 core processor there is no use turning shader on at all.

[@rupankakalita150]

I don't have GLCache folder....why?

[@VahdaMage]

Same

[@YanIsEdging]

i don’t have that just NVidia folder

[@frontlife900]

They should implement a smart cache clearing feature that clearing your cache from time to time without need you to manually doing it.

[@sebastiandorflinger3587]

It worked like a charm. Thanks alot. How often am I supposed to do that? Why isnt there an automatic function? oO

[@Hattori2080]

Thanks for continued solid content for PC optimizations. Could you make a video covering the Fortnite stutter?

[@AdrianValenciaYT]

Thank you for the video man! It helped a lot. Although I have another problem, I've just upgraded to a 4070 Ti Super but it doesn't seem to fully utilize the available power of the gpu in Fortnite. Let me explain. In the graphic settings I set the Epic default but turn Lumen off. The game then runs at around 100-120fps but using only 65% GPU and 25% CPU (i7 12700F). I've tried max settings, low settings and perf mode but the GPU just doesn't want to go all the way up to 100% (the more demanding the settings are, the higher the GPU consumption, but never 100%). That's weird because I remember getting 470fps with my previous GPU (RTX 3060) on perf mode, but the 4070 Ti Super only gets 250fps on a 40% usage. It's almost like if I was locking the frame limit, but I'm not. I'm totally sure. What might be the problem here?

[@doridori727]

crazyyy nvidia should make this easierrr

[@leorith9613]

First off Panjno, I love & appreciate most all of your content. I honestly watched this video (Even though I know how to do ths) to see (I figured you would you really do know your stuff) if you'd mentioned clearing the Dirext-X Shaders too. I can not stress how important it is to do that evertime you clear the other shaders. I also wanted to ask you (or hear your opinion on this) a question... I figured out that I can disable my Shader cache then stop the Nvida process (In Services or the detail pane of Task manager (It's an Automatic one so it'll restart after reboot). Next I restart explorer.exe (In task manager) & that (Usually) releases all of the remaining shader files still currently in use (If not the program(s) still using one are usually listed within the warning message & you can just toggle it (or them) off & then delete them too). This then allows me to delete all the shaders without having to do a reboot first, then I take care of my Direct-X (& the normal temp files (both in temp & %temp% (Because might as well take care of all of them at the same time) ones & I only end up having to do one (And yes you need to to a) reboot (Usually) of my pc. Becuase I'm able turn on the shader cache (In Nvida Control) back on after rebooting, restart explorer.exe one more time so that it rebuilds those few shaders it uses & then go about rebuilding my shaders in the games I am currently playing. I guess just wanted to know, (even though I've seen/noticed no ill effects from do it this way) if there was actually anything wrong in doing it this way?

[@johnnytoast8215]

I was on the way home from a trip when I saw this, I thought it would work and wanted to do it when I got home, I sent it to my friend because his rig has stutters and lag in games more than mine does. He later texts me that his computer is much slower, and won’t run any game longer that a few seconds, before it goes to blue screen

[@DarnellU]

You saved me from getting a new laptop, thank you

[@tsumugidayo]

can you do the FINALS optimization? thanks!

[@uncooked_ham]

I don't understand, wouldn't this just cause shader compilation stutter at the start of games all over again, as they need to compile and store all the shaders that were just deleted?

[@Jack_Napier23]

I did this today and made game sound only work in stream if i was talking in mic. Shut pc down and now it wont turn back on. Dont know what would be causing it but i followed instructions exactly

[@hrbeta]

Thank you. How often do we need to do this?

[@igorthelight]

When you are starting experiencing any problems.

[@simonekowal4424]

i will do this rn!

[@earnestleesaddened3779]

I would love to see this turned into a desktop bat file, or two, because of the reboots to make it simpler for us laypersons.

[@garyschei]

I always have these videos open on my tablet, much easier 👍

[@earnestleesaddened3779]

@@garyschei tablet huh? Nice for you. And so much better than a double click one shot and it's done.

[@maddoggt6145]

Ive come to realization that most all videos about optimizing windows for gaming is nonsense. I left default windows 11 as it was, started downloading my steam library, at 40-80MB/s. Then as that was happening went in to pla y a game and was getti ng 182 FPS, cpu 8%, 35 ms network latency, and no shutter at all. Just no differen ce. So its BS really to be optimizing anything. Windows can handle it as is just fine even when system is downloading at max behind the scenes while playing another online game at max settings.

[@godlugner5327]

Yeah mate kinda same but also realized knowing what each setting does is way more helpful but never a straightforward answer

[@sunnyv1281]

Thanks for the help I’m trying this now I bought a new ps5 controller just now because I’m a pc gamer though it was my old controller making my game do weird things , got a new one still same issue I’ll update on you guys if this worked for me doing all the steps

[@hehexd3137]

Been watching since the Rust legacy days love the dedication

[@HRproYT]

why to re enable shader cashe when it fixed my problem, makes no sense

[@Gamejone_123]

Shader cache works like bios, it keeps prefetches game assets so that game doesn't have to load it every time it cold boots. You might have noticed some games (i.e.: Hogwarts legacy) does take a while in to load assets, map levels etc in the loading screen.

[@nadirabi8379]

Thank you

[@VahdaMage]

I don’t have GLCache in my NVIDIA folder

[@braxatoris7757]

very nice ... tnx a lot ... cs2 is now better :) ... no micro lags and stutters

[@Blue-Dreams719]

Dude you have so many videos about this kind of fixes, optimization etc but which one is the best and correct one for the all time use? example you disable the shader cache size in this video but in the other one you enable it. You change many settings in one video and the other one you revert them etc. I am kinda confused of which video of yours is needs to be followed for the full PC and game optimization.

[@nathangregory_]

Thank you for ALL your valuable tips. In my case, the only problem that I have is that I need to upgrade my 1080ti graphics card.

[@famousfighter2310]

1080 ti is a pretty good card even now. What would you upgrade to though?

[@nathangregory_]

@@famousfighter2310 I'd like to move on to a 30 series. It's just that some of these new games crashes my 1080ti within 20-40 mins of gameplay.

[@famousfighter2310]

@@nathangregory_ crashes? Wow

[@nathangregory_]

@@famousfighter2310 When I pull up my event viewer after the crash, it gives me the error message that it's due to my graphics card. IE source nvlddmkm.

[@_JoyKiller]

I just went from a 1080ti to a 4090, and I'll tell you that although I am certainly impressed with the 4090, it actually impressed me more and made me appreciate how well my 1080ti was handling newer games for how old of a card it was/is. I gave to my son, then built him a new PC with a 4070 Dual, and yes the 4070 can handle a bit more but again, it just simply impressed me at how good of a card the 1080 actually is.

[@Emoore176]

Hey does this help with black flickering lines in games ?

[@SoundsBy80K]

fixed it thanks

[@Kiwivores]

Thanks

[@pure_rl]

For the shader Cache Size, if we have multiple SSD's could we up that to 100G my C drive has about 80G but my other SSD has 1TB left of space.

[@FateXO]

just put unlimited it doesnt matter because you will never come close to even 10 gbs of cache

[@mainuser98]

Good question , i want to know aswell

[@mrvercetti1740]

I had to copy your Nvidia control panel settings for my dell 5577 gaming laptop😅

[@ghostcm5827]

Tnx ❤️ ❤️

[@Panjno]

Thank YOU!

[@dynast]

@@Panjno no, thank YOU more for putting in the effort for the well made video's, the quality and stuff is so good on your vid's :)

[@Bkaz3678]

To delete all the files in the shader cache folder, start your PC in safe mode.

[@tagcavello3439]

Alone in the Dark needs serious help with this issue.

[@M1sterMi]

thanks bro