Rime 2026.10.08.6

Steam started from the desktop gets the same game settings as Gaming Mode

Steam started from the desktop now gets the same game settings as Gaming Mode: a larger NVIDIA shader cache, so big games stop recompiling shaders at each launch, and the fix for the ray tracing hang on NVIDIA GPUs older than the RTX 40 series.

Released
Channel
edge
OS revision
2be53225d
Shell revision
4aa938a0

Highlights

GamingNew

Steam started from the desktop gets the same game settings as Gaming Mode

Steam started from the desktop now gets the same game settings as Gaming Mode: a larger NVIDIA shader cache, so big games stop recompiling shaders at each launch, and the fix for the ray tracing hang on NVIDIA GPUs older than the RTX 40 series.

rime-os #101

Known issues

No known release-blocking issues.

Provenance

Release
2026.10.08.6
Image digest
sha256:edf636042eac0b07e4c93e50c5df1076b57c53ead4307dae69ade6c823c91e88
Channel
edge
Released
2026-10-08T11:46:50.000Z

Published to every image tag (apex, daily, edge, gaming-mesa, gaming-nvidia, rime). All of them are the edge channel today. This page explains the release; it is never consulted by an update. What a machine installs is decided by the registry and the image signature (see Security). Machine-readable: 2026.10.08.6.json.

If something is wrong

Go back to the image you were running before this one. It becomes the default at the next boot; your files and settings stay as they are.

sudo rime rollback && sudo systemctl reboot

On an APEX-named system the command is apex. You can also pick the previous entry in the boot menu. More in Rolling back and Recovery.