Set a generous shader cache
Also searched as: shader cache size · shader cache setup · dxcache · fix shader stutter
The goal
Reduce shader-compilation stutter — especially in UE5 titles — by letting the driver keep more compiled shaders on disk.
Steps
- Open your graphics driver's control panel and find the Shader Cache Size setting in the global 3D options.
- Set it to Unlimited, or to 10 GB if your driver offers fixed sizes. It only costs disk space.
- Separately, when a game shows a "compiling shaders" screen, let it finish instead of skipping it — that work prevents in-game hitching.
- Play a shader-heavy game; the first run still compiles, but repeat sessions should hitch less.
To undo
Set Shader Cache Size back to Driver Default, and clear the cache from the same panel if you want the disk space back.
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