It's dumb how unoptimized animated stuff for your profile is.

[huu]

Animated avatar + animated avatar border + animated profile background = 30-50% CPU usage???[i.imgur.com]

Why is this still a thing? It's been an issue for a really REALLY long time and it remains an issue to this day?????

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

what cpu do you have ? I have an old I4 4130 and only getting a 8-9% cpu usage when putting animated avatar borders and profile.

[huu]

Lemonfed님이 먼저 게시:

what cpu do you have ? I have an old I4 4130 and only getting a 8-9% cpu usage when putting animated avatar borders and profile.

Got an i5-4460.

[Mad Scientist]

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Lemonfed님이 먼저 게시:

what cpu do you have ? I have an old I4 4130 and only getting a 8-9% cpu usage when putting animated avatar borders and profile.

Got an i5-4460.

That'll do it.

I can look at pages like that and be anywhere from 0% to 0.1% of my entire CPU, but I'm running a Threadripper. Users hardware is not really a Steam issue.

This is also not a suggestion or idea...

[Mailer]

I have no doubt that some of the animated stuff in the point-shop, as per the fact that they originate for all kinds of different developer studios, may sometimes lack optimisation.

That said, I don't really see any other applications running under the instance that you linked, where those 35-50% are absolutely mandatory. Firefox is the only real contender and it is only occupying RAM as it should. (Presumably minimised down, although that's not a requirement either).

It's perfectly fine for the Steam client to be occupying it's share of the processor, assuming you are not expecting that share to be occupied by a more important and running application at the same time, in which case you are better off just minimising or in the worst case outright closing the client. If the processor can do something for you at any point, it might as well. They are smart enough to regulate where it is needed so I would not be particularly concerned here.

If you are not convinced though, there are settings under Steam > Settings > Library where you can enable performance mode, among other things, should it prove useful.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

yeah , it's might be a problem related to certain specific animated Items from the point shop.

[huu]

Mr. Gentlebot님이 먼저 게시:

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Got an i5-4460.

That'll do it.

I can look at pages like that and be anywhere from 0% to 0.1% of my entire CPU, but I'm running a Threadripper. Users hardware is not really a Steam issue.

This is also not a suggestion or idea...

The user I quoted has an even weaker/older CPU and they apparently have less problems than me? Makes no sense in my book.

Also I'm just really tired so I put this in the wrong forum, my bad.

Mailer님이 먼저 게시:

That said, I don't really see any other applications running under the instance that you linked, where those 35-50% are absolutely mandatory. Firefox is the only real contender and it is only occupying RAM as it should. (Presumably minimised down, although that's not a requirement either).

It's more of an issue when playing a game because this does affect performance in games quite a lot. Imagine having 40% of your CPU occupied by the fact that I have someone's (or even my own) profile open on Steam. That's just dumb and shouldn't be a thing regardless of hardware.

It's perfectly fine for the Steam client to be occupying it's share of the processor, assuming you are not expecting that share to be occupied by a more important and running application at the same time, in which case you are better off just minimising or in the worst case outright closing the client. If the processor can do something for you at any point, it might as well. They are smart enough to regulate where it is needed so I would not be particularly concerned here.

See above. Again - most of the time it doesn't self-regulate and ends up just hogging up my CPU for no reason. It's why I opt to just not use animated crap on my profile.

If you are not convinced though, there are settings under Steam > Settings > Library where you can enable performance mode, among other things, should it prove useful.

I've used Steam since 2012 and never knew this was a thing. When was this added?

[Mailer]

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Mr. Gentlebot님이 먼저 게시:

That'll do it.

I can look at pages like that and be anywhere from 0% to 0.1% of my entire CPU, but I'm running a Threadripper. Users hardware is not really a Steam issue.

This is also not a suggestion or idea...

The user I quoted has an even weaker/older CPU and they apparently have less problems than me? Makes no sense in my book.

Also I'm just really tired so I put this in the wrong forum, my bad.

Mailer님이 먼저 게시:

That said, I don't really see any other applications running under the instance that you linked, where those 35-50% are absolutely mandatory. Firefox is the only real contender and it is only occupying RAM as it should. (Presumably minimised down, although that's not a requirement either).

It's more of an issue when playing a game because this does affect performance in games quite a lot. Imagine having 40% of your CPU occupied by the fact that I have someone's (or even my own) profile open on Steam. That's just dumb and shouldn't be a thing regardless of hardware.

It's perfectly fine for the Steam client to be occupying it's share of the processor, assuming you are not expecting that share to be occupied by a more important and running application at the same time, in which case you are better off just minimising or in the worst case outright closing the client. If the processor can do something for you at any point, it might as well. They are smart enough to regulate where it is needed so I would not be particularly concerned here.

See above. Again - most of the time it doesn't self-regulate and ends up just hogging up my CPU for no reason. It's why I opt to just not use animated crap on my profile.

If you are not convinced though, there are settings under Steam > Settings > Library where you can enable performance mode, among other things, should it prove useful.

I've used Steam since 2012 and never knew this was a thing. When was this added?

Someone may be able to correct me but I believe the performance options did show up at the same rate as the library was updated. There have probably been some additions since then, which explains why my Steam skin is effed up in some categories.

If it is in fact true that you are experiencing taxing in performance, despite having the Steam client being overshadowed by something else then I am not sure what could be causing that. It is pretty typical for an application to lay off on your hardware once overshadowed by something else. I would expect as much, which is why I don't need to close down Steam prior to playing something.

[Mad Scientist]

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Mr. Gentlebot님이 먼저 게시:

That'll do it.

I can look at pages like that and be anywhere from 0% to 0.1% of my entire CPU, but I'm running a Threadripper. Users hardware is not really a Steam issue.

This is also not a suggestion or idea...

The user I quoted has an even weaker/older CPU and they apparently have less problems than me? Makes no sense in my book.

Also I'm just really tired so I put this in the wrong forum, my bad.

There's settings you can change, wondering if you have GPU / Hardware accel on or off, as well as Low Performance mode (Settings > Library as someone noted already), the last one would likely reduce the strain.

When you go to game, you should close the client window altogether as well if you need everything you can squeeze out of the CPU.

[huu]

Mailer님이 먼저 게시:

If it is in fact true that you are experiencing taxing in performance, despite having the Steam client being overshadowed by something else then I am not sure what could be causing that. It is pretty typical for an application to lay off on your hardware once overshadowed by something else. I would expect as much, which is why I don't need to close down Steam prior to playing something.

Yeah it didn't use to be that way for me either. I was able to comfortably have Steam running in the background no problem while playing games. It only really got started when the Points Shop was added a while back and all the flippy animated junk that came with it but at the time I didn't really mind it because I expected it to get solved over time but clearly I was wrong. Still an issue after all this time so I had to put it out there at this point.

[Mailer]

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Mailer님이 먼저 게시:

If it is in fact true that you are experiencing taxing in performance, despite having the Steam client being overshadowed by something else then I am not sure what could be causing that. It is pretty typical for an application to lay off on your hardware once overshadowed by something else. I would expect as much, which is why I don't need to close down Steam prior to playing something.

Yeah it didn't use to be that way for me either. I was able to comfortably have Steam running in the background no problem while playing games. It only really got started when the Points Shop was added a while back and all the flippy animated junk that came with it but at the time I didn't really mind it because I expected it to get solved over time but clearly I was wrong. Still an issue after all this time so I had to put it out there at this point.

For fun, you can try opening the point-shop main feature page, as well as a preview of something, note the increase in CPU usage as is likely proper, then minimise the client, and then note if the percentages decrease, because they *should*. Then you can be pretty confident in that Steam won't intrude on your experience with something else.
I am curious if you can replicate that behaviour on your end as well and just lemme know.

[huu]

Mailer님이 먼저 게시:

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Yeah it didn't use to be that way for me either. I was able to comfortably have Steam running in the background no problem while playing games. It only really got started when the Points Shop was added a while back and all the flippy animated junk that came with it but at the time I didn't really mind it because I expected it to get solved over time but clearly I was wrong. Still an issue after all this time so I had to put it out there at this point.

For fun, you can try opening the point-shop main feature page, as well as a preview of something, note the increase in CPU usage as is likely proper, then minimise the client, and note if the percentages decrease, because they *should*.
I am curious if you can replicate that behaviour on your end as well.

I'll do this in the morning and get back to you. Currently 3AM here so I should probably go get some sleep.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

with gpu acceleration off I'm getting about 20-22% of cpu usage on my current profile.

[huu]

Mailer님이 먼저 게시:

huu님이 먼저 게시:

Yeah it didn't use to be that way for me either. I was able to comfortably have Steam running in the background no problem while playing games. It only really got started when the Points Shop was added a while back and all the flippy animated junk that came with it but at the time I didn't really mind it because I expected it to get solved over time but clearly I was wrong. Still an issue after all this time so I had to put it out there at this point.

For fun, you can try opening the point-shop main feature page, as well as a preview of something, note the increase in CPU usage as is likely proper, then minimise the client, and then note if the percentages decrease, because they *should*. Then you can be pretty confident in that Steam won't intrude on your experience with something else.
I am curious if you can replicate that behaviour on your end as well and just lemme know.

Heyo. I've done this and tested it out. Going to the points shop and selecting something makes my CPU usage go up to about 60% and it stays there. Minimizing it turns it down to around 2-3% so you were right.

Still pretty awful that just looking at an animated thing in the points shop will cause it to ♥♥♥♥ itself.

[Satoru]

if you're depending solely on the cpu for rendering then yes depending on what sorts of things are being rendered, you will have varying levels of cpu utilization

You can enable GPU acceleration on web-views which will offload many functions to the GPU

[huu]

Satoru님이 먼저 게시:

if you're depending solely on the cpu for rendering then yes depending on what sorts of things are being rendered, you will have varying levels of cpu utilization

You can enable GPU acceleration on web-views which will offload many functions to the GPU

I already have that enabled - had it before I even made this thread, yet my problems regarding CPU usage remain all the same.