Transfer Shader Cache from One Version to Another!

General Feedback & Requests
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Hi everyone,
I recently downloaded Unreal Engine 5.1 and I am interested in migrating the already existing shader cache from 5.0 to 5.1, now the question is, is it possible at all to do so or do I have to recompile shaders every time I upgrade UE to a new major version?
Although I am running Linux, I am curious as to whether this is possible in a general scenario and then we can move on to platform-specific functionality and so on!

Thanks!

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I think there are two things you might want to know.

One is, that as of 5.1, the engine only compiles shaders when it needs them :slight_smile:

Also with 5.1, SM6 is the default, instead of 5 ( I think that happened with 5.1 ). So there will be some shader compilation…

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Yeah as mentioned above… don’t think you are going to be able to do this going from 5.0.3 to 5.1 at least because Lumen on 5.1 requires SM6.

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Darn shame, just when I hoped it would get better :joy: :joy: !
Anyway, thanks for your help!