Improve Stuttering & Performance | Clear Nvidia Cache Guide | Improve Performance In Some Games

Have you cleared your Shader Cache recently? You may get better performance, less stuttering and more in some games! This quick video shows you how to clear your Shader Cache - and even make it bigger if not enough space is causing performance issues in games! Everything you need to know and more.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro/Explanation
0:22 - What is a shader cache?
0:56 - Temporarily disable Shader Cache
1:20 - Clear Nvidia Shader Cache
2:13 - Clear DirectX Shader Cache
2:38 - Re-enable Shader Cache
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[@CptAeRoTR]

I went from 30 fps to 31 fps, thank you thank you.

[@ixiHackxi]

Yes, but did your stuttering clear up?

[@seanjohnston565]

​@ixiHackxi He's on 30 fps, he's always stuttering 😂

[@ixiHackxi]

@@seanjohnston565 lol

[@fragmata2000]

Haha wtf 30 fps in 2024 you play on xbox ore ps5 better.

[@kevinp6886]

@@fragmata2000 that is what you play on xbox and ps5 all the time in resolution mode from 1080p to 4k and the 4k is not even native 4k...

[@AlienGurke]

2:10 if u see this, skip them and reboot your pc and delte the files which are left over if you want to have everything cleared. With a reboot you close the programs which are still running in the background and you are able to delete them

[@giulianoromano5129]

There is a way to delete all files in DXCache, When you disable shader cache size, sign out form your computer and then login back in and then delete the cache files, DXCache files will delete everything in the folder. great video 👍

[@chris.mc3b]

nice one

[@cattameme]

sign out or restart?

[@giulianoromano5129]

@@cattamemesign out, no need to restart!

[@aryanpardeshi5189]

same here

[@he1go2lik3it]

2:17 You could also do the following: press win+r and type cleanmgr. Great explanation, thank you!

[@DaboooogA]

Great guide thanks

[@d310n]

Thank you!

[@Max_Ivanov_Pro]

Thanks so much, this really helped a lot, no more stutters!

[@itchgaming]

If you didn't have "crypto" in your name, I would think you were AI.

[@EnnTomi1]

@@itchgaming he has 1.2m sub, yet 0 video. yeah

[@Buy_YouTube_Views_a091]

Your channel has a great community of supportive viewers. It's refreshing to see respectful discussions in the comments.

[@phil2927]

Shut up…..😂😂😂

[@Sum_Yousah]

​@@phil2927Thanks for being respectful, it's refreshing ❤

[@hdz77]

That's ridiculous, you can do this on AMD Software Adrenalin with just a click of a button, Hopefully, Nvidia does the same on their new Nvidia App.

[@Lucaboox]

Ya there's a lot of cool things on the AMD software I wish we had on Nvidia overclocking alone being done with it was really nice when I had a 5700 XT

[@Aerobrake]

thatd be so cool!

[@hdz77]

@Lucaboox Love my 7900 XTX and Adrenaline Software, but if Nvidia added these same features on Nvidia app, I would change to the 5090 when it comes out, ease of use is a big thing.

[@metroplex29]

​@@hdz77this, The only thing that has stopped me from switching to Nvidia is its control panel.

[@Lucaboox]

@@hdz77 ya I liked the 5700 XT but I felt some games ran worse compared to nvidia so I got a 3060 Ti and sure enough a lot did run better and shadowplay makes it lag less compared to the AMD recording. Once AMD fixes more issues and releases some Ai features it will be really hard to recommend nvidia at all.

[@umeng2002]

Some games store their shaders in other folders, so for a specific game, you might to manually hunt them down.

[@i3l4ckskillzz79]

I would like to see a benchmark with and without cleared shader cashe!

[@Chilledoutredhead]

its not about fps per say, its about 1% lows and micro stutter, probably quite hard to show in a benchmark

[@parismccoy20]

Yes, the proof is in the testing

[@friesguy5467]

​@@Chilledoutredheadthese are always visible in a frametime graph

[@thejusubox]

this actually improved a lot on the games i played on especially how i had 2000++ files in that DXCache folder (wtf?) god sent for this video to show up on my recommendation after searchiing barista latte art

[@aryanpardeshi5189]

i had 1000

[@dieterpeter1724]

Same with latte art 😂

[@cattameme]

thanks bro.

[@3dchick]

Yay! ❤

[@SingledRS]

Hey thanks for such a helpful guide. I have a few question if you get the free time to answer them it would be massively appreciated! So since I updated my Nvidia GPU recently to the latest driver version my fortnite game has been having the fps fluctuate a bit but the biggest problem is every match since I updated 2-3 days ago it'll freeze for a good 2-5 seconds almost every 10 seconds, kind of like a stutter making it unplayable. The night before the nvidia update my game has been running perfectly fine, my fps is capped and was solid and I had no stutters whatsoever and also use Gsync technology for my monitor through nvcp. I tried all the obvious verifying my files etc. I've noticed my game will always run bad for a little after updating the gpu which i assume is just because you've got to cache the new shader files (I'm not super technical). I tried playing the game since the update and nothing improved, so I attempted to revert my gpu to the previous driver version by doing a rollback which also didn't help, so as a last resort I reinstalled fortnite and again this also didn't work. My questions are: 1. How often should i perform what you shown in your video which is deleting the nvidia shader files? Would I do it after every Nvidia GPU update? 2. I have followed your video and done exactly as you did just now currently so i'm going to attempt to see if it fixes the stutters/freezes. Am I correct that i should just wander the map a few times/traverse to load in the map/shaders? I do play in performance mode which is low detail as my computer is a low end PC. 3. My PC has 36GB free of 110GB on the C drive. How much would you allow for shader cache realistically on the nvidia control panel global settings? I massively appreciate if you can help me, thank you so much!

[@MRimawi66]

THX

[@ahsamhussain5610]

Bro u earn a new sub from me

[@VengeanceFalls]

You can use windows disk cleaner and click shaders cache….

[@kondek7710]

that's what he did XD

[@TheFerretsVarietyChannel]

Thanks ill try this tomorrow ready for MW3 and warzone 👍

[@DeeLow52]

Is yours not loading textures?

[@glurzoh]

@@DeeLow52put your game on ssd

[@TheFerretsVarietyChannel]

I've no problems just think it's good to clear it now and again​@@DeeLow52

[@jacobiwan0019]

i dont have an nvidia folder, how do i fix it???

[@rocha1001]

This improve the performance for games but is very random in which game it will work, for example my escape from tarkov was stuttering a lot and i figure out it was by bad shaders, after clean it the game is smooth again as it was 10 months before, but if your cache is healthy and there is nothng wrong you will not having any improvements.

[@hipagriff]

When you update to a new driver version, does it technically do this for you already and thats why shaders restart when you open up a game for the first time after a new driver version has been installed?

[@TroubleChute]

I don't think so, but a change in the filename it's looking for (version number of the driver, game name, etc) could be the reason :)

[@hipagriff]

@@TroubleChute interesting, okay thanks for the insight!

[@GTheLegendOfficial]

when u update ur gpu driver shaders have to be re cached again as the old ones are no longer compatible with the new driver

[@ZippoManABH]

Hello thx for the tips, unfortunately I dnt find/have the ( 1:59 ) PerDriverVersione folder .. then I delete only the files in the GLCache previously done.

[@oblivionfrag8035]

I hope this fixes my valorant launching issues. I can't launch valorant without removing the local data valorant files .

[@DuckButtGoesKwekKwek]

When I tried this, my AppData\Local\NVIDIA folder was empty unlike yours. There was no GLCache folder or anything. The AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA folder was normal though. Any idea as to why?

[@abranmoya00]

Local low my boi

For some reason, whenever I use instant replay from the nvidia app. I instantly have frame drops exactly every 2 seconds and my fps keeps running at 30-40. However when I turn instant replay off, everything is fine and works just how it's supposed to work. Geforce Experience doesnt have this problem either

[@hrbeta]

Thank you for the info, but it's obvious to me that a better procedure has to be developed.

[@SuperFluffyCarrot]

I have this issue where replay turns off after enabling it in old shadow play

[@KarennaJP]

Nice video as always thanks for the help! I was wondering if you know why my Windows key doesn't work anymore, everytime I have to run a command like windows+r it's a pain :/

[@olcique]

Some keyboards have a speacial key to disable windows key for gaming purposes. Check if you turn it on accidentaly. Usually keyboards inform you that with a dedicated light...

[@KarennaJP]

Where do I check that? In the keyboard settings? I do have the gaming mode on, but I turned it on recently, but I have this problem since some months now @@olcique

[@olcique]

@@KarennaJP On actual keyboard itself... It may look like a pad lock symbol.

[@KarennaJP]

I found it! Thank you for helping me, I finally fixed this issue, I didn't know the existence of a FN+Fkeys combo that turns on gaming mode on your keyboard by disabling windows key!@@olcique

[@olcique]

@@KarennaJP You’re welcome, cheers… ✌🏻

[@jeofthevirtuoussand]

I hope that ntc will be a part of dlss 4.0

[@FalbereChan]

Can you make this tutorial for AMD graphics cards? I cannot find the folder.

[@EttoreB93]

in AMD you get into Adrenalin software, click on settings gear -> graphics, then you extend the options to see them all, last option is delete shader cache. That's it

[@lokepameGG]

AMD has delete shader cache option

[@FalbereChan]

thanks!

[@Raeraeiscooler]

cant find GLcache in anything found the other cache in locallow tho

[@topernot9840]

Um when I went to the Nvidia file there was nothing in there I'm confused?

[@luciano12sa]

How about the new Nvidia unified app? I've been pretty happy with the looks, usability and functionality of it

[@i3l4ckskillzz79]

Nice I didn't know it's available already. Might try it today. Have a great day my dude

[@acev3521]

It’s good but still has a ton of stuff missing from it, they said they gonna add them later though.

[@luciano12sa]

yeah, hopefully they make clearing cache more streamlined @@acev3521

[@o74769]

Maybe u could ask Nvidia to make a clear cache button

[@shaked8965]

thx for this video, but when i go to appdata > local i dont find nvidia folder only nvidia corporation and no GLCach folder in

[@biogesicc0808]

probably hidden. check folder settings to view hidden folders

[@shaked8965]

@@biogesicc0808 still not see

[@KasaniGT]

@@biogesicc0808 still nothing.

[@IsraTheBlack]

You rarely have to clear your shader cache. Best way to do it is before installing new drivers just use ddu and that will clear everything and then install the new drivers.

[@arkaneforyou]

Ddu on every Nvidia update reach month or so is ridiculous

[@coldblackice]

@@arkaneforyou only worthwhile on major driver branch updates, e.g.: v555.11 -> v555.18? Nope. v555.11 -> v557.3? Yes. Even then, it's not going to be beneficial in all cases. Drivers don't leave leftover messes around like they used to.

[@Kunaives]

neither of my nvidia folders have the GLcache folder. rip

[@VK92KL]

I wonder if selecting perform a "clean install" when updating NVIDIA drivers do the same?

[@Serpico360]

Dx Shaders get deleted every time you install a new driver. Clean install or not. Clean installing a driver just doesn't include telemetry and bloatware and unnecessary software from the driver.

[@decizion17]

i don't have GLCache folder inside nvidia's folder

[@wolfenstein6676]

I use the 'Linux Mint' operating system and I thought I'd take a look at what I see in my file structure for 'Nvidia'. I found 12 'nvidia' folders each with their own shader cache, two 'NVIDIA' folders with no shader cache and three 'nvidiav1' folders with their own shader caches too :) . I've recently installed 'Nvidia Omniverse', so that might be the reason for this, though. When I play 'Steam' games I get the 'processing vulkan shaders' box appearing every time on 'start-up'. My experience is literally the opposite from yours, Blackwing :) .

[@HackerBusting]

you won't unless you play a game that renders in OPENGL

[@OGJason99]

For the shader cache size is it better to leave it on 10GB?

[@dimyz7435]

is better put default by driver?

[@ummidhassan3359]

Is there like permanent solution I can use ,cause I have doing this for a while and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

[@4U-Scooby-YT]

please make a video to optimize gameloop emulator for pubg for high end pc

[@Serpico360]

why would you need an emulator for PUBG if you have a high end system?

[@KasaniGT]

i dont see anything in my nvidia folder

[@EternalGaze8]

Can’t you literally reinstall the newest driver (clean install)?

[@RequiemOfSolo]

I never understood why nvidia lacks an integrated way to clear shader cache. Amd has it. Good thing for people to know though.

[@SlayerUnchained]

My shader cache size setting was set to driver default and nvidia cache folder is empty. I don't have performance issues but I wonder if I need to switch it to 100gb.

[@HackerBusting]

you'll lose 100GB of drive space for nothing

[@FLIp.]

Who play Battlefield 2042 can go to the path C:\Users\user\Documents\Battlefield 2042\cache and delete all files in this folder from time to time

[@wishwewere1256]

How to do it on AMD cards?

[@eswalid]

What will happen if I didn't disable shader cache first in control panel ?

[@Southernhosp]

The files will be in use and not allow you to delete them all

[@bnxi1869]

I did this and its causes my other games to stutter please help

[@4a4arA]

..and I dont have NVIDIA folder in AppData, only NVIDIA Corporation folder ???

[@4a4arA]

and yes all folder/files are UN-hidden

[@vladzor87]

\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA

[@SlackBallSack]

So much easier to listen to than Panjno

[@connorstory6978]

His videos are so bloated sometimes.

[@SlackBallSack]

@@connorstory6978 it's his annoying AF voice he has that grates the most

[@Dark24562]

Whats name of mouse cursor

[@pedro.alcatra]

Unfortunately. Some games handle the cache data on their own. Lime cod does. Cod games save his shader compilation on the game folder

[@Dz0ka]

could i do this with the new nvidia app instead of the control panel?

[@Rigboogle]

Yes, it is universal, Intel has their own shader cache system as does AMD, I usually manually delete the folder every other month to improve performance over time.

[@NoTalker_]

I switched to the new Nvidia app now I can't see my task bar when I alt tab

[@onlypvpcaterina-6669]

It's beta software, Uninstall it, Until it's matured more !

[@MateuszZych]

I don't have such options and I have the latest driver

[@JMTSH2T]

hi i have a quadro k5100m 8gb and it have code 43 error.. i try few times with relfu calentar el chip y nada. que me recomiendas por favor ?

[@xeilas9719]

Dude wtf are you doing with a quadro ????

[@JMTSH2T]

@@xeilas9719 i haved it since 2013 and still working. im trying r now with pin conections, just c movie and work XD

[@shanesoares2520]

did this all and i had nothing in my folder. weird

[@EZsWaterBoy]

After running %localappdata% there was no NVIDIA folder and Glcache to be found, can you please help? I am using NVIDIA gpu

[@turqah]

u probably dont have nvidia drivers installed

[@woullerwhat4803]

When I deleted directx shaders it caused stutters and lag until I played for a while aren't these shaders important?

[@TroubleChute]

Yes. They will be regenerated when you're in-game, or in some games on the menu. While they're generating you can expect lag. You shouldn't clear it every day, but after a month or so you may see improvements clearing cache for fresh shaders :)

[@Khinouille]

have you watch the video ? he warns you about 2 times at least about that

[@woullerwhat4803]

@@Khinouille only half of it..

[@undefined6856]

The whole purpose is if say you've downloaded 20 AAA title games & but you only really play 3 of them.. you've got shaders for 17 AAA title games you don't even play cached. If you clear the cache & then boot up the games you do often play it will store the shaders for them & for those other 17 games they're still there but likewise if you decide to boot them up ever it'll store the shaders for those games aswell.

[@Emmy.69]

Can you make a video about optimization for AMD 6700XT❤

[@Mryourporn]

You have app for this

[@Emmy.69]

@@Mryourporn I don't have Nvidia

[@Mryourporn]

@@Emmy.69 Dude Amd has his own program do you not have the amd amp lol our nvdial app is old and garbage, and the Amd app lets u do everything, and dont know about Amd but most of nvidia cards has the same settings since im using nvidia from little kid i know whats :D

[@pimme2204]

It says i dont have the Nivida file

[@damianward9695]

does this help with games like ROBLOX cause I'm experiencing some slow motion lag and slowness out of no where it started like 2 weeks ago and I cant figure out why its started doing it. and this happened to all my games from steam I cant even play cause of it

[@MiauFrito]

Must be a hardware thing

[@aua3ek460]

I have an empty nividia folder yyy ?

[@raeedmndow9714]

Thanks for the guide My game crash becuse of my gpu (3070) i installed rhe last driver and it still crash any solutions??

[@Motion_God]

Overheating possibly

[@saiibox3174]

vram maybe

[@Gambi-Storys]

i have nothing in Nvidia folder

[@DaKrawnik]

Do this. It'll work. Trust me, bro.

[@stargirl5194]

i just put the new graphics card and the fix is to already clear the cache? 😒

[@yrQmem]

Actually clear the Cache will cause stutteting. Just set cache to unlimited. It will cleared with each driver update so you will have stutters the first few mins until all shaders have been created again.

[@robertodolsak3566]

I can not find gl cache.

[@KlaroNebulous]

I did everything you did but now my Windows turned into Linux and a sudo monster is hunting my Family

[@EASYART1987]

bruhh

[@TroubleChute]

It's too late! rm -rf / (please don't run this 😂)

[@sbdsm]

my nvidia folder is empty

[@Jakiyyyyy]

Why do we need to disable the Shader Cache inside the NVCP? I did it all the time without disabling it at the first place and nothing happened though. Is there specific explanation for that?

[@TroubleChute]

I don't think you NEED to, but I would assume if anything's in use it should be let go, allowing you to delete it. Even so some files were still in use and unable to be deleted when I cleared it in the video

[@Jakiyyyyy]

Yeah I didn't disable it and I can still delete all the files, meaning no files are in use.@@TroubleChute

[@kogarashixz]

You should perform deletions AFTER disabling the Shader Cache and reboot. That way all cache can be cleared. I think the settings applied after a reboot.

[@vicmaestro]

@@wolfkane1986 But he did explain it - if some of those cache files are in use, they will refuse to delete until they're freed. Disabling Shader Cache temporarily while you're out of a game, does that.

[@S1N1CAL]

@@TroubleChuteThat's because Windows Explorer creates files for shader cache aswell for some reason. If you go to task manager and restart Explorer it will let you delete those last few files.

[@ka6t]

I don't have that.

[@greyraven9164]

just use disc cleaner, no need to do manual delete.

[@meecob]

Why "shift delete" when delete will do the same thing ?

[@DCBH]

shift delete deletes everything permanently, just delete puts them in the recycle bin

[@ChrisGR93_TxS]

yeah do it now that you still have nvidia control panel!

[@pietropesce5355]

my \AppData\Local\NVIDIA is empty

[@MarawanNezar]

same here

[@kalanithompson2644]

I don't have the Nvidia cache folder... am I missing something?

[@pullmeifinger]

yes, your missing the nvidia cache folder

[@anilrathore5827]

lol @@pullmeifinger

[@1ixyz]

i dont have GLCache folder inside nvidias folder and i show the hidden items still cant found that folder :/

[@thedaeron3877]

same!

[@dzekydeblau]

pls higher bitrate wallpaper that looks so bad :/ can try upscaling with ai

[@cpxcth]

youtube reduces bitrate for you if you dont own premium

[@dzekydeblau]

@@cpxcth I have, is it not banding for you?

[@cpxcth]

@@dzekydeblau i do see the artifacting but its moving, he has a static wallpaper

[@DeeLow52]

Will this help with losing textures in Warzone?

[@lowz8201]

bro what, that's just on call of duty side, not ur pc or gpu its the company badly optimizing their game.

[@jakubjedrzejewski878]

are you playing the game on SSD or HDD?

[@acev3521]

That’s usually running out of vram try reducing your settings ironically the game will look better because your textures can actually load this time.

[@ray4493]

It doesn't really work with Unreal engine games. The game itself needs to be modded from Dev's end to run without the shader caching or stuttering issues. Remember the infamous Callisto Protocol stuttering that literally caused the demise of otherwise an incredibly premium game. The game runs great now because Devs finally managed to "fix" the rendering. You can't do anything from your side.

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how’d u get ur right click so cool? this an app or diff os i’m confused???

[@TroubleChute]

In the description: 🎨 My Themes & Windows Skins: hub.tcno.co/faq/my-windows/ I am using Windows 11 at the moment.

[@bradd1788]

@@TroubleChutepreciate it thanks

[@sebgr8972]

i don't have nvidia folder inside %localappdata% :/

[@LouieBaLLz]

Me either 😥

[@javadrubick]

clearing cache once every year is enough ?

[@TroubleChute]

Whenever you feel games are stuttering or having weird performance issues is a good time :) may be the solution you're looking for.

[@MakeSh00t]

i have 4090 what is stutering ? and i had 3070ti what is stuttering ?

[@Cole_Zulkowski]

does disabling antialising gamma correction improve performance in games?

[@TroubleChute]

antialising usually yes, gamma correction not so much

[@ahmetwhy4883]

this works for NVIDIA 940MX ?

[@ledocteurgonzo]

hahahaha 😂

[@winrargamer]

Yes

[@gaudiando]

Me watching the whole video: 😍 (I have AMD GPU)

[@Gebora]

even your keyboard has an accent

[@SMoLeX_49]

Improve Stuttering

[@gukkie87]

Followed this and got a bsod..

[@kondek7710]

or maybe leave it turned off all the time?

[@Darksh1n]

I got alot more stuttering when i cleared the cache whats the point in doing this really? Diablo 4 doesnt update textures correctly anymore it feels like and the stuttering is insane wtf. I have my shader cache set to unlimited in the nvidia control panel i dont know if that is recommended though.

[@dragonflaw]

Try setting the shader cache to 100GB or 10GB.

[@penumbrum3135]

Texture streaming issues sound more like VRAM related issues.

[@ItzKamo]

Nice my fps went from 200 to 202 !

[@Dennis99867]

Hey, i got a problem..... when playing cod warzone my CPU (i7 13700F) is almost permanently at 100% usage while my rtx 4070ti is just at about 50-60%. I play on high grafics at 2k resolution. So there is no CPU limit in cod. In other games everything is fine. I would appreciate your help! Thanks Dennis

[@GrainGrown]

What do you think 2K is?

[@Dennis99867]

​@@GrainGrown a resolution?

[@GrainGrown]

@@Dennis99867 But what resolution? Most people use it totally wrong.

[@MrWhite_Racing]

Ofc your CPU is the bottleneck in this case. Reduce ray tracing or other cpu heavy tasks/ settings in cod.

[@MrWhite_Racing]

​@@GrainGrown2k usually goes for 2560x1440p