r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 13h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/Haunter777x 13h ago

Somehow it's real, almost didn't believe it myself

https://x.com/EpicGames/status/2110369347592229333?s=20

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u/StarKieeeeee 13h ago

Dam, they managed to release a beta with half the features of a launcher that has a tenth of the features Steam has

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u/DoctorMlemm 13h ago

Of course it launches twice as fast if it has half the fucking features, are they stupid?

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u/cortesoft 12h ago

Also, why is launch time that important? I launch Steam on startup, and then it is just open. I don't need it to start up fast.

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u/TheEmperor2220 11h ago

Yeah, they almost had a point with that “how long to load from taskbar” comparison, except IDGAF if it takes .4 or .5 seconds there either… maybe if steam took like two whole seconds and they managed to get sub 1 it’d be impressive, but it’s not so…

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u/core-x-bit 10h ago

Imo once it gets under minutes and into seconds its kinda irrelevant I mean how fast do you really gotta be able to access steam. Just leave your pc on or go get a water

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u/TheEmperor2220 10h ago

I mean it’s not a “have to be thing” it just feels bad when you try to open something already running from your task bar and nothing moves for two seconds, while anything sub 1 (like the .4 steam actually takes) is barely noticeable, so that hypothetical would’ve been an actual improvement.

The metric they actually improved in (5 less seconds during “cold start”) is entirely worthless however, because quite frankly steam is one of the first startup apps to actually finish loading for me anyway, so any quicker than that is literally impossible to tell either way.

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u/desmaraisp 8h ago

TBH it was a legit issue with EGS launcher, startup was too slow. But this is the kinda stuff where either it's a problem or it's fine, there's not much of improvement beyond that

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u/doopie 7h ago

Every program takes up memory and CPU time while it's open. Having lightweight and fast programs results in better overall computer performance.

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u/cortesoft 6h ago

Memory, sure, but the OS is pretty good at pushing unused memory into swap if needed, so it is not usually a performance hindrance.

It is not true, though, that every open program uses CPU time. Some programs might, but it is easy to write a program that uses no CPU when not in use