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Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com)

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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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[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

As Steam has been extremely slow to launch for quite some time now, anybody want to take a stab at why it took an Epic Games taunt for them to take care of it?

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago

Because most people don't care.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 17 hours ago

You think they only waited for epic to drop an update as if they monitor them from the inside?

That's a next level conspiracy theory lol

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Has it? I never noticed. It always been fast for me. 2 seconds is too long?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Could be you have it set to start up when you boot your computer, as it's pretty quick to "launch" when it's actually already running but hidden in the system tray. I have it set to be manually launched on mine and yeah 10 seconds sounds about right for what I'm used to (haven't restarted since the update).

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

No I don't like it running in the background and It isn't set to start on boot. It bugs me when steam is running and I am not using it.

Linux user, so no I don't hide it in a system tray.

I think there is a clue here though: Linux does drive cache a lot. Possible that is why.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

For me it regularly takes (took? haven't used Steam after the update) 15+ seconds

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's because I'm opted into the beta, so I'm always downloading updates. But it always takes a couple of minutes to launch from scratch for me and my gaming PC is no slouch.

But once I launch it, I leave it up, I never close it, so it's never just running in the background waiting for me to pop it up again.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what others said, this has been in the beta. Epic tried to beat this release just to be able to technically say they were faster for a day.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ah. So there you go. And it will go down in history written in stone and people will still be talking about it 100 years from now