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Archform Feb 17, 2022 @ 9:53pm

Eat up so much CPU and memory resources?

Uninstalling steam finally let me run a UE5 project without crashing. Quite amazing how much more smoothly my PC runs without it on my machine.

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Flavius Claudius Julianus Feb 17, 2022 @ 9:57pm

It’s just you and your potato. I run Steam in the background while crypto mining and it barely uses any.

Archform Feb 17, 2022 @ 9:59pm

Originally posted by Flavius Claudius Julianus:
It’s just you and your potato. I run Steam in the background while crypto mining and it barely uses any.

I could comment a lot on your choice of using a CPU for cryptomining, but considering I didn't include my specs, but did include the ability to run high end game engines, should make it clear there is no potato.

Satoru Feb 17, 2022 @ 10:32pm

Note if your UE5 project is crashing steam isn’t causing that

Edifier Feb 17, 2022 @ 10:51pm

Currently Steam uses 0.1% of my CPU being idle. Takes up about 75 MB RAM in total.

It has zero impact on my PC or whatever program I use.

So calling it a bit bs that Steam is the problem on your PC.

Satoru Feb 17, 2022 @ 10:57pm

Steam will only really use your cpu

1) if games are being patched
2) you have videos on auto play and have a store page in focus

Muppet among Puppets Feb 18, 2022 @ 1:03am

Originally posted by Edifier:
Currently Steam uses 0.1% of my CPU being idle. Takes up about 75 MB RAM in total.

% is relative.
It definitely takes more than 75mb ram.

About the project, it should run with something else running.

ReBoot Feb 18, 2022 @ 1:59am

What exactly is using up all those ressources? Steam got a couple of processes, please check which of those it is.

Edifier Feb 18, 2022 @ 2:54pm

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:
Originally posted by Edifier:
Currently Steam uses 0.1% of my CPU being idle. Takes up about 75 MB RAM in total.
% is relative.
It definitely takes more than 75mb ram.

About the project, it should run with something else running.

When my Steam does nothing and just sits in the background. It takes VERY little RAM.
When I have it open it might go up to 160 MB.

Mad Scientist Feb 18, 2022 @ 2:58pm

0.0% to 0.1% of CPU, and up to 145MBs of resources. Seems like a very insignificant amount of resource and cpu consumption to me.

Last edited by Mad Scientist; Feb 18, 2022 @ 2:58pm

davidb11 Feb 18, 2022 @ 3:29pm

Originally posted by Archform:
Eat up so much CPU and memory resources?

Uninstalling steam finally let me run a UE5 project without crashing. Quite amazing how much more smoothly my PC runs without it on my machine.

Steam doesn't do this though.
It's not how Steam works.

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Burgundy_β Feb 19, 2022 @ 9:28pm

This is why we can't have fast software nowadays

1.Computers are so powerful, developers choose not to pay attention to optimizations

2. PC elitists defending developers, blaming the user for having "old" hardware

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Fire Angel Feb 19, 2022 @ 10:46pm

Steam being active destroys my MAC but my PC can take it just fine

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Callahan420 Feb 19, 2022 @ 11:52pm

Steam is currently using 1GB of memory idling in my library.

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Yasahi Feb 20, 2022 @ 2:33am

If you need the resources for something, why not just CLOSE all the programs you're not using? Uninstalling seems quite drastic when you can just close Steam.

Then again, given the recent posts by the OP, this is more of an attempted dig at Steam than anything else.

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