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I find that Steam can also be quite sluggish, but Steam has the excuse of possessing an enormous number of features.

by TulliusCicero 4y ago

zwirbl 4y ago
Steam still feels orders of magnitude more responsive
Semaphor 4y ago
Huh, the only time it's sluggish, is from internet delay for me. What parts are slow for you?
- ladberg 4y ago
  Not OP but on Mac at least I find it wayyy faster to browse the steam marketplace and community sites in Safari or Chrome than in-app. Everything about it is slow from loading pages to scrolling to clicking buttons.
  - Semaphor 4y ago
    Huh. Not an issue for me, but I use windows, maybe their Mac app sucks?
    - Gigachad 4y ago
      The Linux one is slow too. You have to manually turn off animated profile pics in the friends section otherwise it’s unusable slow, like 1fps.
- KronisLV 4y ago
  > What parts are slow for you? Not OP, personally the Steam UI seems to freeze in the following cases for me: - when opening or scrolling my library, as the icons load in (~400 games) - when trying to install a game (delay until the install dialog pops up) The other slowness feels inconsequential, like when opening a store page or launching a game - on par with what you'd get when an average web app is loading or an Electron app is being launched. Pretty much every other store out there has been worse in comparison, GOG Galaxy seems to be reasonably close to me though, Origin and Epic are both slower in my experience.
  - Semaphor 4y ago
    OS? I don't have freezes, with more games (though most are in closed categories). Galaxy is second best for me as well, but it's also the only other app trying. I don't remember any install freezes, but I wouldn't bet on that one.
seba_dos1 4y ago
Guess what? During the last few years, more and more parts of Steam's UI got rewritten to work in a very similar way to how Electron does (using CEF). Back when these views were still in the minority it was easy to identify them by how sluggish they felt compared to the rest :)

I find that Steam can also be quite sluggish, but Steam has the excuse of possessing an enormous number of features.

zwirbl 4y ago

Steam still feels orders of magnitude more responsive

Semaphor 4y ago

Huh, the only time it's sluggish, is from internet delay for me. What parts are slow for you?

ladberg 4y ago
Not OP but on Mac at least I find it wayyy faster to browse the steam marketplace and community sites in Safari or Chrome than in-app. Everything about it is slow from loading pages to scrolling to clicking buttons.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  Huh. Not an issue for me, but I use windows, maybe their Mac app sucks?
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    The Linux one is slow too. You have to manually turn off animated profile pics in the friends section otherwise it’s unusable slow, like 1fps.
KronisLV 4y ago
> What parts are slow for you? Not OP, personally the Steam UI seems to freeze in the following cases for me: - when opening or scrolling my library, as the icons load in (~400 games) - when trying to install a game (delay until the install dialog pops up) The other slowness feels inconsequential, like when opening a store page or launching a game - on par with what you'd get when an average web app is loading or an Electron app is being launched. Pretty much every other store out there has been worse in comparison, GOG Galaxy seems to be reasonably close to me though, Origin and Epic are both slower in my experience.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  OS? I don't have freezes, with more games (though most are in closed categories). Galaxy is second best for me as well, but it's also the only other app trying. I don't remember any install freezes, but I wouldn't bet on that one.

seba_dos1 4y ago

Guess what? During the last few years, more and more parts of Steam's UI got rewritten to work in a very similar way to how Electron does (using CEF). Back when these views were still in the minority it was easy to identify them by how sluggish they felt compared to the rest :)