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Ok, I think I've figured out which build this issue started and it's version 4.0-2078. Version 4.0-2071 seems to be working correctly for me.

I can't reproduce this consistently, do you have a particular method to pull this off?

I really don't do anything special or out of the ordinary to reproduce this. I just switch the graphics backend to opengl, start the game, play for a about a minute and then stop. However if I delete the 6GB+ file 'ogl-GFZE01-shaders.cache' from the shader cache directory before starting, the game starts up quickly. If I don't delete this file, the game hangs for a while before starting. Whenever I stop the game by pressing esc or clicking the stop button and then confirming, It always hangs no matter what, while creating another 6GB+ cache file.

I also noticed that the size of the 'ogl-GFZE01-shaders.cache' file depends on how much free hard drive space I have. If I have enough space, then the size is between 6 & 7 GB and it hangs for over a minute. If I have less than that, the file size is equal to the amount of free space i had before starting, and the hang time is proportionally less.

What the hell!!!!
I just freed up 19GB of hard drive space and now the shader cache file is 19GB.

Is this still an issue? I haven't seen it popup in a while.

Yup. Still an issue with me. The last version that I tried was 4.0-4669 and it's still the same.

I have this issue with Baten Kaitos on version 4.0-4863, exact same behavior as described except my cache file was 20-40GB.

(Also, Issue 6951 looks really similar to this.)

Do you have an Intel GPU besides the NVIDIA Geforce GT 420M? Are you using Nvidia Optimus?

Yes, I have an Intel HD Graphics GPU along with the nvidia GPU, and yes, my laptop is using Optimus.

Um, NOPE, still experiencing the same problem in the latest build and in the build from #1802. The page from the link above says that it fixed issues 7978, 7894 and 7883. This is issue 7833. Maybe I'm missing something or simply not understanding how this process works.

Hi don't think it's an Intel HD issue

I'm also getting this with the latest builds which originally I thought was a simple OpenGL crash -that's on a GTX970 desktop, no Intel Graphics, hope that helps

I have to bring this important issue up, when playing "Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean" the game creates a file named "ogl-GKBEAF-shaders.cache" inside the "ShaderCache" folder and the file takes a lot of space, last time i checked it had 17GB!!!

This issue needs some attention, hope the developers take a look at this.

This was tested on the latest Dolphin revisions "4.0-4969" and "4.0-5328".

Sorry to bring the topic here but this thread is closely related to this issue, i also have a GTX 970.

Hi I also have same issue the size is 11.1 GB ogl-GKBEAF-shaders.cache
which is on SSD drive, so that's insane for me have to delete it and delete the game till it gets fixed plus doesn't work anyway works first time while it creates this huge cache if you run game again on dolphin just stalls black screen this was on dolphin 5.0-5432

Can we find a way to reproduce this consistently though? IF you can reproduce it consistently, can you maybe bisect it so we can actually fix the issue instead of taking blind guesses?