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Steam showing up Epic a day early is just đź‘Ś (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53186894

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[–] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

Not excusing Epic here, but TBH Steam was pretty bloated. It still is. Valve got too complacent with it.

I’d really rather not have to run a ton of CPU/GPU/RAM-sapping churn in the background just to run a game. And if I do, at least make it leaner when minimized, not a full browser + a ton of other stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Sounds like you need more RAM dog

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago* (3 children)

    I have 128GB. For my setup specifically, I'm more worried about background CPU/GPU usage causing hitches.

    But we are in a RAM apocalypse, so people running games with barely enough RAM/VRAM will be fairly common these days.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Nice, my current machine can’t even handle that much, lol

    My system works for what I need it for, but I can’t wait to upgrade hardcore once all of the bubble implodes and all of the tech fabs need consumers again.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (2 children)

    It's not just bloated, it has a bunch of semi abandoned features and relatively simple bugs that they just don't care about fixing. Which is super weird. And I LIKE maximalism and features.

    And as absolutely true as this post is, I also feel like this was a little corporate BM from valve. Which is concerning, given their position in the market; I don't want valve to turn into a machine that punches down. That's super toxic culture.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    Just to clarify, because I have seen a lot of people not know this. This is part of a much bigger update, and has been in the public beta branch since the 9th of september. Steam aren't "punching down" or doing "corporate BM" in this case.

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