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WTF is the new Steam UI doing to take this much RAM?
I have Steam minimized to task bar, and when it's open it's only on my Library page and yet Steam is now taking more than 4GB of RAM...
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Автор сообщения: 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊
Автор сообщения: Tharon
Remember : if we don't do something NOW Steam will continue in this trend.

5 years ago, before the chat overhaul Steam only needed around 70 mb. After it goes up do 130. Then went the library and 300 mb of ram used. Now it's around 450 and 900 (in game) with various memory leaks.

What about the future ? They will not surely stop there.
Unfortunately we can't do anything. No matter how much we talk, yell, or speak out on the forums it won't change anything. They won't go back to the older version. If they want to let it use more ram then they will. They do not listen to us.
They will listen when people stop buying stuff as they cant run it anymore. Bottom line controls everything in corps. If they see bottom line dropping they will rework client. If not they will cease to be at the top of the food chain and another low memory usage client will take over. The consumer controls if corps die or not.
Автор сообщения: 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊
Автор сообщения: Tharon
So yes, Valve is causing issues to users with 16 gb (the de-facto standard) and screwing those with 8 or less.
No one should actually be using a computer on the internet in 2023 with only 8GB of ram (gaming or not). That's just silly. That's barely enough to browse websites with 5-10 tabs.
8 Gig is fine and will run most things. I only upgraded to 16 this year so i know things will work with 8.
Автор сообщения: 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊
Автор сообщения: Tharon
So yes, Valve is causing issues to users with 16 gb (the de-facto standard) and screwing those with 8 or less.
No one should actually be using a computer on the internet in 2023 with only 8GB of ram (gaming or not). That's just silly. That's barely enough to browse websites with 5-10 tabs.

My Firefox has 11 ... sorry, 12, tabs open right now to Reddit. No. not mobile Reddit. No. Not old Reddit. Reddit Reddit. And it has an active YouTube video playing back in 1080p.

Current total memory use for Firefox: 2 ~ 2.2 GB.
Discounting the fact that Windows' task manager may still be misreporting memory consumption due to counting shared memory between processes for each individual process. (I'm not sure if that particular issue is still around, or if MS ever fixed it.)

On top of that, both Firefox and Chrome will in their standard configuration pause/suspend and ultimately page out inactive tabs and let them go to the pagefile on disk when the browser starts consuming too much of the system's available physical memory.

Your argument is not just invalid.
It is utterly and totally invalid.
Отредактировано RiO; 4 июл. 2023 г. в 12:19
Автор сообщения: RiO
Your argument is not just invalid.
It is utterly and totally invalid.
Nope. I'm actually correct. I have a few common background things open here on my computer (discord, steam, epic games, telegram, SVP4, etc) and chrome with about 20 tabs on windows 10 and already my system is using 6 GB just to function. And my system is stripped down (I removed a lot of things from windows 10 so they don't run, firewall, windows defender (I use a different AV with firewall in it, don't want both on the system), updates, system restore, etc). 8GB ram wouldn't even barely cut it. A few more tabs and I would almost be out of ram. Heaven forbid I decide to look at facebook and youtube at the same time .. with 8GB ram that would do it and it would start paging.

Everyone knows 8GB isn't enough to use windows today. You're just trying to start arguments for no reason other than to argue for the sake of arguing and that's not cool. It's called trolling.
Отредактировано 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊; 4 июл. 2023 г. в 13:06
Автор сообщения: 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊
Автор сообщения: RiO
Your argument is not just invalid.
It is utterly and totally invalid.
Nope. I'm actually correct. I have a few common background things open here on my computer (discord, steam, epic games, telegram, SVP4, etc) and chrome with about 20 tabs on windows 10 and already my system is using 6 GB just to function. And my system is stripped down (I removed a lot of things from windows 10 so they don't run, firewall, windows defender (I use a different AV with firewall in it, don't want both on the system), updates, system restore, etc). 8GB ram wouldn't even barely cut it. A few more tabs and I would almost be out of ram. Heaven forbid I decide to look at facebook and youtube at the same time .. with 8GB ram that would do it and it would start paging.

Everyone knows 8GB isn't enough to use windows today. You're just trying to start arguments for no reason other than to argue for the sake of arguing and that's not cool. It's called trolling.

Your argument is that 8 GB isn't even enough to browse the web with 10 or so tabs open concurrently. It is demonstrably enough for that.

You're just trying to move the goalposts now.
And your goalposts are especially fraudulent because the bulk of the apps you mention are all Chromium powered apps that feature heavy RAM use already.
Автор сообщения: RiO
Your argument is that 8 GB isn't even enough to browse the web with 10 or so tabs open concurrently. It is demonstrably enough for that.

You're just trying to move the goalposts now.
And your goalposts are especially fraudulent because the bulk of the apps you mention are all Chromium powered apps that feature heavy RAM use already.
Not everyone uses firefox. Some people want to use chrome and there's nothing wrong with that. People are allowed to use whatever they want to.

None of this matters. Everyone knows 8GB isn't enough for today's computers. It's common knowledge. As I said before: You're just trolling. And you're not even very good at it because it's very obvious. Try harder next time. Maybe you will get someone to argue with you.
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Автор сообщения: RiO
Your argument is that 8 GB isn't even enough to browse the web with 10 or so tabs open concurrently. It is demonstrably enough for that.

You're just trying to move the goalposts now.
And your goalposts are especially fraudulent because the bulk of the apps you mention are all Chromium powered apps that feature heavy RAM use already.
Not everyone uses firefox. Some people want to use chrome and there's nothing wrong with that. People are allowed to use whatever they want to.

None of this matters. Everyone knows 8GB isn't enough for today's computers. It's common knowledge. As I said before: You're just trolling. And you're not even very good at it because it's very obvious. Try harder next time. Maybe you will get someone to argue with you.

Someone not agreeing with your opinion and presenting the reasoning and numbers to back that up, does not make that person a troll.

For the record: most pre-assembled off-the-shelf systems and laptops sold in 2020-2022 for regular home and office use still shipped with 8 GB. 16 GB was reserved for professional use and gaming, yes. But not for general use. And 32 GB was very much reserved for the top end of heavy-duty professional use and gaming.

The entire world does not consist of enthusiast gamers gunning for max performance at 4K that have a desktop-centric digital social life.

The bulk in fact consists of regular Joes and Janes that just do a bit of browsing and video watching; and otherwise run word processing or spreadsheet applications. They maintain most of their social contacts via apps on their phone so don't need bloated desktop Electron or CEF apps for that on their desktop.

And for regular browsing and some light-weight or even retro gaming on the side, 8 GB still more than suffices.
Отредактировано RiO; 4 июл. 2023 г. в 13:31
modern consoles hardly even seem to be running 16GB of ram...

I built my PC like over a decade ago now with 16GB of ram and space/plans to upgrade to 32GB... but that need never really manifested it's self due other than niche applications I'm not interested in...

now? maybe I'd like to have a couple more GB of ram... but then again I'm going to need a new system in a few years when everything requires windows 11+ and I need a new MOBO which will basically mean a new PC since well... I don't think I'll find a modern MOBO that supports an i7 4770k or any ram I'd buy as an upgrade or anything else... so lets just keep with the 16GB.
i am starting to have performance issues, even with an i7 7700k, 32gb ddr4 ram, rtx3060ti and 1tb m.2 ssd.

this latest steam update is probably the worst of the bunch where performance is concerned. i'm also still waiting for a fix to the steam client to stop acting like a background picture and the washed out colour effect btw.

as far as performance is concerned it is eating up my ram at an impressive rate at times and loading up my cpu into the 90% range as well, when it does happen the computer programs freeze up or the mouse is acting sluggish even though i moved it seconds before.

i don't care for the window dressing valve are upto, they can change it as many times as they like, but i've been having issues with this version they dropped ever since.
Автор сообщения: WolfEisberg
I was using Procmon to see what Steam was doing. What was interesting is that I found Steam was looking at every single process that was started up, even non Steam apps and non Steam games, and every time it looked at those processes the memory usage went up. I wasn't doing anything on Steam itself, it was simply running, while I started up each non steam app and non steam game.

by the time I was done Steam was sitting at 4GB of memory usage.

So from what I learned, memory usage also includes Steam looking at the other running processes on your computer.

https://imgur.com/a/1G5SC1p

Now that's interesting.

I wonder what business of Valve it is to scan your system for every other process loaded like that. Continuously even. And the fact that they're doing this undisclosed just raises more questions still...
Автор сообщения: WolfEisberg
I was using Procmon to see what Steam was doing. What was interesting is that I found Steam was looking at every single process that was started up, even non Steam apps and non Steam games, and every time it looked at those processes the memory usage went up. I wasn't doing anything on Steam itself, it was simply running, while I started up each non steam app and non steam game.

by the time I was done Steam was sitting at 4GB of memory usage.

So from what I learned, memory usage also includes Steam looking at the other running processes on your computer.

https://imgur.com/a/1G5SC1p
probably what all these are doing...
https://i.imgur.com/TFNIJfx.png

why is steam looking more and more like malware?

also why is steam monitoring when you open and close files?
Отредактировано kingjames488; 5 июл. 2023 г. в 13:57
Автор сообщения: kingjames488
Автор сообщения: WolfEisberg
I was using Procmon to see what Steam was doing. What was interesting is that I found Steam was looking at every single process that was started up, even non Steam apps and non Steam games, and every time it looked at those processes the memory usage went up. I wasn't doing anything on Steam itself, it was simply running, while I started up each non steam app and non steam game.

by the time I was done Steam was sitting at 4GB of memory usage.

So from what I learned, memory usage also includes Steam looking at the other running processes on your computer.

https://imgur.com/a/1G5SC1p
probably what all these are doing...
https://i.imgur.com/TFNIJfx.png

why is steam looking more and more like malware?

also why is steam monitoring when you open and close files?
Hello

Do you really have all thoses process running ?if so, then you have a problem ;)
Отредактировано bidulless; 5 июл. 2023 г. в 15:16
Автор сообщения: bidulless
Автор сообщения: kingjames488
probably what all these are doing...
https://i.imgur.com/TFNIJfx.png

why is steam looking more and more like malware?

also why is steam monitoring when you open and close files?
Hello

Do you really have all thoses process running ?
that was a realistic representation at the time I produced the screenshot... after that it got worse.... and then chat just stopped working... I imagine due to the massive ammount of meeseeks and steam trying to ghost it's self.
Отредактировано kingjames488; 5 июл. 2023 г. в 15:17
Автор сообщения: kingjames488
Автор сообщения: bidulless
Hello

Do you really have all thoses process running ?
that was a realistic representation at the time I produced the screenshot... after that it got worse.
Hello
50+ cef process running at the same time ? i think you tryed to killed some and steam re launched some , because it's really weird. You usually have 1 shell , 1 main cef and it 8 cef child's process + 1 service.
Отредактировано bidulless; 5 июл. 2023 г. в 15:22
Автор сообщения: kingjames488
Автор сообщения: WolfEisberg
I was using Procmon to see what Steam was doing. What was interesting is that I found Steam was looking at every single process that was started up, even non Steam apps and non Steam games, and every time it looked at those processes the memory usage went up. I wasn't doing anything on Steam itself, it was simply running, while I started up each non steam app and non steam game.

by the time I was done Steam was sitting at 4GB of memory usage.

So from what I learned, memory usage also includes Steam looking at the other running processes on your computer.

https://imgur.com/a/1G5SC1p
probably what all these are doing...
https://i.imgur.com/TFNIJfx.png

why is steam looking more and more like malware?

also why is steam monitoring when you open and close files?
Weird, mine is pretty tame with very few processes. https://imgur.com/a/z253Lwg
And I have been using regularly, no trying to end processes or fiddling with anything, been shopping around the store during the sale using the steam client.
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