ValveSoftware/Fossilize

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A serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types.

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Forks: 78
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 36

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 3, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Overwatch 2 shader pre-cache: Fossilize processing reaches 22–23 GB RAM and triggers kernel OOM on AMD RADV Open

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ValveSoftware/Fossilize#312 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 7, 2026
fossilize-synth - Can't create shader with Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#306 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 26, 2026
[Enhancement] show status of the current shader compilation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#303 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Fossilize is spamming warnings to my log Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#300 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 16, 2026
Add support for lists of shader hashes in fossilize-prune Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#296 · Opened Feb 2, 2026
104GB RAM Usage during "stuck" Processing Vulkan Shaders at 100% Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#288 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 1, 2025
Excessive CPU Usage when no game is running Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#279 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2025
Excessive memory usage Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#274 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2025
Vulkan Shaders processing endlessly Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#264 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Extremely long shader compilation times Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#256 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 28, 2024
Fossilize ERROR: Cannot copy unknown pNext sType: 1000068000. Fossilize WARN: Recording graphics pipeline failed, usually caused by unsupported pNext Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#255 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2024
Warframe Shader Caching Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#253 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Valve needs to rethink Fossilize Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#252 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2024
Fossilize seems to be inaccuratly estimating current progress Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#251 · Opened Aug 28, 2024
Why is fossilize always running? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#247 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2024
Launching Steam freezes my system because of fossilize_replay taking whole memory Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#242 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2024
Fossilize_replay vulkan bug, arch proton Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#240 · Opened Dec 18, 2023
100 GB shadercache folder Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#237 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 1, 2023
Build of -m32 fossilize terminating with errors Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#229 · Opened Aug 1, 2023
Compiling Vulkan shaders with less than 50% of free memory leads to OOM situation and system freeze Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#227 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2023
Steam seems to never finish shader pre-compiling in the background for A Hat in Time Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#224 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2023
.xsessions-errors full of warnings Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#221 · Opened Mar 29, 2023
Disable VK_AMD_shader_fragment_mask if descriptor buffers are used in replayer Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#219 · Opened Mar 6, 2023
Shader compilation freezes the system Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#218 · Opened Feb 25, 2023
Accumulating many .foz files with Gamescope Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#212 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2023
Repeated core dumps Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#211 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2023
fosselize_replay eats all RAM when background processing shaders Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#210 · 21 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 5, 2023
ERROR: Consuming pipeline libraries while creating a pipeline library Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#209 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2022
[Shadow of the Tomb Raider] fossilize eats all RAM until it OOMs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#194 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 20, 2022
Fossilize influenced by I/O load on unrelated drives Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#182 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2022
fossilize-synth/fossilize-disasm with only vertex or fragment shader? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#153 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2021
Can I run fossilize manually? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#151 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2021
Can go into infinite recursion when combined with libstrangle Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#139 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2021
Use released submodules instead random git snapshots Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#135 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2021
fossilize_replay dumped core Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#117 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Dec 23, 2020
Does fossilize compute shaders for every graphics card detected ? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ValveSoftware/Fossilize#110 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 13, 2020

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