Why is the Steam store so slow on certain game titles?

[StickyToepad_81]

On som titles (like Stellaris) the page seems to freeze for a few seconds before I can scroll down/up or click on content. Sometimes Steam crashes if I don't stop mousing on the page.
Also while adding a suggested title to the wishlist the page just freezes, although the item gets whislisted eventually.
This was not always the case, but seems to happen more often since the last 12 months or so.

Maybe something wrong with the Catalyst drivers or is my harddrive to slow or something? Should I clear cache?

[crunchyfrog]

Yes, you should ALWAYS try clearing either the download cahce or in this case, the web browser cache as a first port of call.


If that doesn't work, then try going to your steam installation and deleting everything except the steamapps folder (where your games reside) and the steam.exe.

Then run steam.exe and ity will reacquire all the relevant files. If that doesnt fix it still, pleas epost some more infor like your systems specs.

[StickyToepad_81]

I've cleared the cache and it seems somewhat better. But still some store pages perform slow. On some pages I just want to get away asap because nothing responds anymore or take long and shortly after that it freezes again.

Maybe is my machine too slow? But I can't believe it demands so much power from the cpu?

[crunchyfrog]

Origineel geplaatst door StickyToepad_81:

I've cleared the cache and it seems somewhat better. But still some store pages perform slow. On some pages I just want to get away asap because nothing responds anymore or take long and shortly after that it freezes again.

Maybe is my machine too slow? But I can't believe it demands so much power from the cpu?

Well, if you post your system specs we can have a look.

But there are occasional bugs which may make it run slow too, so we need to work out what the issue is here by ruling out your system.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It is the GIFs they have on their store page. It's been an issue since Valve started allowing them. Each one shouldn't be over a certain limit but there are some that have broken those rules.