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Domaorn Dec 21, 2019 @ 5:03am
Background apps... why 9 instances of steam running?
Can anyone explain to me why Steam needs to run 9 instances of itself when I bring up my task manager? Seven of which are named webhelper the other two are bootstrapper and client service. I dont mind, just wanting to know.
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Originally posted by wuddih:
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
The Steam web helper uses all the cores of your cpu to allow a smoother experience.
that is incorrect. please stop spreading false information.
this has nothing to do with how many cores Steam uses and Steam also will not use all of your cores by design.

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Steam is using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework

at the design core, Steam is a web browser, like chrome, firefox, edge, opera, etc. it is common software procedure for web browsers to put things in their own process container for multiple reasons surrounding security, stability and resource management.

it is a little bit more complicated than bloodshed said because it is mostly more diverted by tasks and not by "tabs", like one task paints the page, another task does the javascript stuff and so on. so like chrome and firefox, you do not have 100 tasks when you have 100 tabs open, you have a few dozen or so and processes will be added or killed if sub tasks are required or not for ongoing things on a page, like f.e. an animated gif.
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Jaunitta 🌸 Dec 21, 2019 @ 5:11am 
The Steam web helper uses all the cores of your cpu to allow a smoother experience.
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BloodShed Dec 21, 2019 @ 6:08am 
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
The Steam web helper uses all the cores of your cpu to allow a smoother experience.

To add on to that, each webhelper covers their own area in the client.

One for the store, one for community, one for the library etc..

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wuddih Dec 21, 2019 @ 6:50am 
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
The Steam web helper uses all the cores of your cpu to allow a smoother experience.
that is incorrect. please stop spreading false information.
this has nothing to do with how many cores Steam uses and Steam also will not use all of your cores by design.

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Steam is using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework

at the design core, Steam is a web browser, like chrome, firefox, edge, opera, etc. it is common software procedure for web browsers to put things in their own process container for multiple reasons surrounding security, stability and resource management.

it is a little bit more complicated than bloodshed said because it is mostly more diverted by tasks and not by "tabs", like one task paints the page, another task does the javascript stuff and so on. so like chrome and firefox, you do not have 100 tasks when you have 100 tabs open, you have a few dozen or so and processes will be added or killed if sub tasks are required or not for ongoing things on a page, like f.e. an animated gif.
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Domaorn Dec 27, 2019 @ 8:57am 
Thank yall so much!!!!
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