New steam update eating up all the RAM

[Dofoolee]

So the new update has been murdering my weak computer's 4 GB of ram. Get constant lag spikes every few minutes because of the steamwebhelper.exe taking up 0.5GB-1.5 GB of my ram a billion times higher than steam client itself which only uses about 50 MB
can't have steam on if i'm going to do anything with my computer or my ram will just die
hope this can be changed soon

[mimizukari]

4gb ram isn't good anymore... it hasn't been for a long time. you need minimum 8 gb ram for gaming applications and what not nowadays... Steam uses chrome, chrome uses ram... Even more reason to get 8gb.

[SPG]

I've got 8gb and my game and computer just crashed due to low memory.

[Dofoolee]

yeah i know 4gb is complete crap but i'm pretty sure many ppl still have4 gb or less computers/laptops and ignoring this is cutting out quite a bit of ppl :/

[76561198407601200]

Dofoolee \(O_o)/ の投稿を引用：

yeah i know 4gb is complete crap but i'm pretty sure many ppl still have4 gb or less computers/laptops and ignoring this is cutting out quite a bit of ppl :/

Nope, as there are some who eventually upgrade their pcs if required.

[ranoutofcharac]

Dofoolee \(O_o)/ の投稿を引用：

yeah i know 4gb is complete crap but i'm pretty sure many ppl still have4 gb or less computers/laptops and ignoring this is cutting out quite a bit of ppl :/

To have windows 8 and 10 you need MINIMUM 4gb of ram. unless stupid 32 bit

[Better Call Wingo]

sameee

[Rens Agatha ⁧【レンス】]

SPG の投稿を引用：

I've got 8gb and my game and computer just crashed due to low memory.

what kind of ram ? i had 8 gb ram "ddr4" and never get crashes when playing a game. and i using windows 10... what game do you play ?. well if you use windows 10 just disable all that update and superfetch cuz its help me alot and yeah couple month ago i already add more 8 gb so it 16 GB now, i can enable that win update without disable it before play a game

The Living Tribunal の投稿を引用：

Dofoolee \(O_o)/ の投稿を引用：

yeah i know 4gb is complete crap but i'm pretty sure many ppl still have4 gb or less computers/laptops and ignoring this is cutting out quite a bit of ppl :/

Nope, as there are some who eventually upgrade their pcs if required.

theres like 11% steam user still using 4GB ram you can see it from here honestly you just add more 4 gb and you'll be ok but not for future above 2020 cuz lot of new game started to have more than 4 gb ram and maybe it will reach more than 8 too
dont forget about vram cuz 4gb is the recomended for a game these day

[Dofoolee]

The Living Tribunal の投稿を引用：

Nope, as there are some who eventually upgrade their pcs if required.

theres like 11% steam user still using 4GB ram you can see it from here honestly you just add more 4 gb and you'll be ok but not for future above 2020 cuz lot of new game started to have more than 4 gb ram and maybe it will reach more than 8 too
dont forget about vram cuz 4gb is the recomended for a game these day [/quote]

then i guess it's up to me to get a new laptop or something soon :/

i mostly just find it annoying that i've been playing on my crap laptop fine but suddenly an update that uses unessary amounts of ram comes and ruins the fun

[Cathulhu]

At the moment my Steam uses less than 100MB combined with Steam.exe and the multiple steamwebhelper.exe. And i'm currently downloading a game.

[Tharon]

M の投稿を引用：

Cathulhu の投稿を引用：

At the moment my Steam uses less than 100MB combined with Steam.exe and the multiple steamwebhelper.exe. And i'm currently downloading a game.

i just checked. i got 32 GB ram and steam is only using 298MB for webhelper and 154MB for client bootstrapper.
still sounds much to me, but dofoolee might have a virus or something else eating all that ram. :ryanohno:

450 MB of ram is a lot for a launcher for games. Really too much.

Anyway, the new update eat more and more ram the more the chat is used. I myself see the memory usage go over the 1 GB in some situation. This will be even worse with the upcoming release of the new library, so be prepared.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Tharon の投稿を引用：

450 MB of ram is a lot for a launcher for games. Really too much.

Anyway, the new update eat more and more ram the more the chat is used. I myself see the memory usage go over the 1 GB in some situation. This will be even worse with the upcoming release of the new library, so be prepared.

Mine is about 220 MB of RAM. Running on the latest released client. Last update for it was
Feb 19.

If other parts of Steam are open, they take up more RAM too as Steam is not just a launcher but a web browser and chat as well. As with any browser, the more pages one has opened, the more RAM is going to be used. Same with the chat, the more you have open, the more RAM it will use.

OP:
Are you running the Beta client or the released client?

If running the Beta client, I suggest posting the issue in the hub for the Beta client so they can look into the issue.

[Magillanica Lou Mayvin]

Steam doesn't use much at all. The problem probably lies with the OP's OS.

You simply can't run Windows 8 or 10 on your machine with just 4gb ram. The good ol days of windows XP only using 400Mb RAM are long gone.

[Dofoolee]

Spawn of Totoro の投稿を引用：

Tharon の投稿を引用：

450 MB of ram is a lot for a launcher for games. Really too much.

Anyway, the new update eat more and more ram the more the chat is used. I myself see the memory usage go over the 1 GB in some situation. This will be even worse with the upcoming release of the new library, so be prepared.

Mine is about 220 MB of RAM. Running on the latest released client. Last update for it was
Feb 19.

If other parts of Steam are open, they take up more RAM too as Steam is not just a launcher but a web browser and chat as well. As with any browser, the more pages one has opened, the more RAM is going to be used. Same with the chat, the more you have open, the more RAM it will use.

OP:
Are you running the Beta client or the released client?

If running the Beta client, I suggest posting the issue in the hub for the Beta client so they can look into the issue.

i'm running released client
also i have tried to turn off everything and even tried to force the steam webhelper to shutdown with taskmanager and it comes right back up

[Dofoolee]

Magillanica Lou Mayvin の投稿を引用：

Steam doesn't use much at all. The problem probably lies with the OP's OS.

You simply can't run Windows 8 or 10 on your machine with just 4gb ram. The good ol days of windows XP only using 400Mb RAM are long gone.

steam itself is only about 50MB of ram usage for me
it's the steamwebhelper.exe thing that takes up 200 MB-500MB
never had problem with this until the recent update which i find frustrating not being able to play most games now

[Tharon]

Spawn of Totoro の投稿を引用：

Tharon の投稿を引用：

450 MB of ram is a lot for a launcher for games. Really too much.

Anyway, the new update eat more and more ram the more the chat is used. I myself see the memory usage go over the 1 GB in some situation. This will be even worse with the upcoming release of the new library, so be prepared.

Mine is about 220 MB of RAM. Running on the latest released client. Last update for it was
Feb 19.

If other parts of Steam are open, they take up more RAM too as Steam is not just a launcher but a web browser and chat as well. As with any browser, the more pages one has opened, the more RAM is going to be used. Same with the chat, the more you have open, the more RAM it will use.

This is part of the problem, since it should be a simple client and not a web browser. It's similar to use a V8 engine to power a blender. As for the chat, a chat program take very few resources if it's programmed properly and not using a web browser as render engine.