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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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[–] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 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?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago*

    The market leader being lazy is not a conspiracy theory. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that a competitor showing it can be done better motivated Steam to improve their product. That dynamic is a main reason why competition is good for the customer.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 2 points 20 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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