Guide - Remove headers/icons. Change installed/uninstalled game font, remove what's new

[A Generic Name]

I've posted a guide detailing how to remove overly large header images and logos, remove game icons from library list, change installed / uninstalled game fonts for easier readability and remove the what's new section from the library home page using simple CSS tweaks.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1906786841

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

This is interesting.

[Start_Running]

I was right... css editing.

[Tharon]

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Tharon:

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

That doesn't sound right by a mile downloading gigabytes by images only? Either you mistaken it for game update, or something else is happening.

This is what it is when you start up Steam, it's less than 1MB each, so saying you're downloading gigabytes of images on start up for steam doesn't make any sense at all.
https://imgur.com/bJJNJAQ
https://imgur.com/617W9G0

[Richard Dastardly]

Is this library really all written in javascript?

What license is the client distributed under? if we rewrote the UI using the basic client engine is that breaking TOS?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Tharon:

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1905224534

there are various options to reduce bandwidth usage

[Satoru]

Out of curiosity, can you use the existing skins infrastructure to do this rather than writing to the core css files directly? Mostly since I imagine the CSS changes would get wiped out on each update or you might lose out on functionality when they update the CSS ifyou make the fie read only

[Tharon]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by Tharon:

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

That doesn't sound right by a mile downloading gigabytes by images only? Either you mistaken it for game update, or something else is happening.

This is what it is when you start up Steam, it's less than 1MB each, so saying you're downloading gigabytes of images on start up for steam doesn't make any sense at all.
https://imgur.com/bJJNJAQ
https://imgur.com/617W9G0

No, i'm serious.
Upon boot Steam starts do download a cache of images for every game. Depending of the number of games in library, it can reach gigabytes sizes. Removing the cache folder will make Steam redownload all the images again.

I have 1400 games and a 7 megabit connection. Steam occupy my whole bandwidth for a couple of hours downloading them all, and can only be stopped by closing Steam.

Check the appcache\library folder in the steam installation folder. If you have few games and a good internet connection you probably didn't notice Steam downloading when it was fist update.

[Tharon]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Tharon:

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1905224534

there are various options to reduce bandwidth usage

Not what i was talking.

[nxfs11]

Originally posted by Tharon:

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

set /steam/appcache/librarycache to read-only? =-)

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Tharon:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

That doesn't sound right by a mile downloading gigabytes by images only? Either you mistaken it for game update, or something else is happening.

This is what it is when you start up Steam, it's less than 1MB each, so saying you're downloading gigabytes of images on start up for steam doesn't make any sense at all.
https://imgur.com/bJJNJAQ
https://imgur.com/617W9G0

No, i'm serious.
Upon boot in the new library Steam starts do download a cache of images for every game. Depending of the number of games in library, it can reach gigabytes sizes. Removing the cache folder will make Steam redownload the images again.

I have 1400 games and a 7 megabit connection. Steam occupy my whole bandwidth for a couple of hourse downloading.

Either A) You're deleting, or done something to the files to make it redownload, or B) you have something interfering, and managing your files for you that making it redownload. C) Your Steam corrupted, and need to be reinstall, move Steamapp folder out of there, uninstall, delete whatever remaining, then reinstall, place back steamapp folder, then start up steam, get it all done, then retest after the restart.

I have 3k games, and from my last post above that's exactly what happens when starting up each time, only about 1.3MB used each time.

[Tharon]

Originally posted by nxfs11:

Originally posted by Tharon:

@op

Have you find a way to avoid downloading gigabytes of images when steam start ?

set /steam/appcache/librarycache to read-only? =-)

Steam service will make it writeable again the next time Steam starts. Someone already tried it :)

[Tharon]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by Tharon:

No, i'm serious.
Upon boot in the new library Steam starts do download a cache of images for every game. Depending of the number of games in library, it can reach gigabytes sizes. Removing the cache folder will make Steam redownload the images again.

I have 1400 games and a 7 megabit connection. Steam occupy my whole bandwidth for a couple of hourse downloading.

Either A) You're deleting, or done something to the files to make it redownload, or B) you have something interfering, and managing your files for you that making it redownload. C) Your Steam corrupted, and need to be reinstall, move Steamapp folder out of there, uninstall, delete whatever remaining, then reinstall, place back steamapp folder, then start up steam, get it all done, then retest after the restart.

I have 3k games, and from my last post above that's exactly what happens when starting up each time, only about 1.3MB used each time.

No, i don't want to download them from the start.
I don't want a such gigantic cache for 90% game i won't look at because i've already finished them or aren't interested at the moment.

It's stupid.... it's like Netflix downloading on your device images from their catalog because they want to do.

[Tharon]

Anyway, i was only asking the op if he has find a way to remove them, just this. But probably isn't something in the CSS.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Tharon:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Either A) You're deleting, or done something to the files to make it redownload, or B) you have something interfering, and managing your files for you that making it redownload. C) Your Steam corrupted, and need to be reinstall, move Steamapp folder out of there, uninstall, delete whatever remaining, then reinstall, place back steamapp folder, then start up steam, get it all done, then retest after the restart.

I have 3k games, and from my last post above that's exactly what happens when starting up each time, only about 1.3MB used each time.

No, i don't want to download them from the start.
I don't want a such gigantic cache for 90% game i won't look at because i've already finished them or aren't interested at the moment.

It's stupid.... it's like Netflix downloading on your device images from their catalog because they want to do.

I mean what's the difference, you said you're redownloading them everytime you start up Steam, so... Why not fix the issue to prevent that from happening everytime... Or are you saying you're not downloading the images everytime you start up Steam that you claim?