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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] tekdeb@lemmy.zip 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It didn't really bother me before, but it has been kind of slow to start for a long time. Bad enough for me to notice that's it's slow, but not bad enough to feel the need to complain about it.

Now it only takes about 6 seconds for me which is perfectly fine. As someone who only runs Steam when I'm about to play a game through it, it's a very noticeable improvement!

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I let it run constantly and never really noticed the load time. Good to hear it is so quick now!

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

6 seconds isn't really "so quick", but I also never had a problem with it.