Every day NMS has to update. Is this because I run it on Linux or is it just how NMS is? Today it was a 4,6 GB update
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It is not an update, it is the shader pre-caching. The popup you are referring to is the shader being loaded when you start the game.
Edit: if you haven’t played in a couple days there was a patch this past…Tuesday? If I remember correctly. That would explain it being larger than normal.
If you go to the actual download page, there should be a little “i” in a circle that if you mouse over will tell you what the download is; shader pre-cache, patch, etc. It’s not always there though.