WTF have you done to steam?

[Arctic Warfare Magnum]

After the latest update of the Steam client, it is unstable, consumes huge memory resources and negatively affects most of the games I play. Even the Mini Games List mode can't help me. Steam Client WebHelper consumes 10% of resources from my 8GB RAM. I have tried everything to disable unnecessary features and nothing. -nofriendsui -no-dwrite -nointro -nobigpicture -nofasthtml -nocrashmonitor -noshaders -no-shared-textures -disablehighdpi -cef-single-process -cef-in-process-gpu -single_core -cef-disable-d3d11 -cef-disable-sandbox -disable-winh264 -no-cef-sandbox -vrdisable -cef-disable-breakpad. Do you have any ideas, solutions?

[Ranger]

You can try -vgui which lowered RAM usage substantially for me.

But the best thing to do is to stop giving Steam money until they start learning to treat their customers better. They really do have a complete disregard for user feedback these days, because the truth is they don't have to care. They are a monopoly and they are finally starting to really act it. Every time I complain to Steam Support about these sorts of issues I get a form reply from them that basically says to buzz off.

[RiO]

引用自 Arctic Warfare Magnum：

-no-cef-sandbox

⚠ Don't ever do this!
Massive security issue! That sandbox is your last line of defense against all the unpatched exploits in the severly outdated version of Chromium that Steam uses.

[Phantom]

Certain parameters will web components, so if anyone wants to retain those, be aware.

[Vinster]

I'm fighting with this too. Trying to disable the cryto miner (what I'm calling it) that they call webhelper. It isn't helping me that's for fricking sure. Spent many hours wasting time on this webhelpourselfstoyourresourses breach of trust going on here.

[Arctic Warfare Magnum]

UPDATE!
I minimized the memory usage, but it's still not good. I don't know what exactly is causing the problem, but I compared playing PUBG on STEAM and EPIC GAMES. With EPIC GAMES I have exactly the same experience as STEAM before the update. The new STEAM is broken! VALVE! You guys screwed up! It's time to fix it!

[RiO]

引用自 dazza0511：

引用自 Meat：

32GB is too much, 16GB is the max for me

16GB used to be fine but i don't think so anymore, it's just better to play it safe with 32GB if you are playing the latest games.

And if you're not interested in the latest triple A games?
For instance; because the PC ports of them have all been unoptimized bug fests and you actually have a console in your living room on which they would work OK?

Are you then going to tell people they should just shell out for an upgrade to 16 or 32 GB just to plaster over Valve's ineptitude at reining in Steam's runaway memory use?


This is beside the fact that the latest triple A games themselves have no need for that much RAM either.
The PS5 and XBox series X both have 16 GB of unified RAM, which they have to share between VRAM and main RAM use. Even assuming an even split, those games have to be capable of doing their thing with 8 GB at a limit. And that's being very generous, because in reality the split will be more like 12 GB to VRAM and 4 GB for main use.

The mind boggles as to why the PC ports suddenly are as memory hungry as they are, compared to their console counterparts.

[dazza0511]

引用自 RiO：

引用自 dazza0511：

16GB used to be fine but i don't think so anymore, it's just better to play it safe with 32GB if you are playing the latest games.

And if you're not interested in the latest triple A games?
For instance; because the PC ports of them have all been unoptimized bug fests and you actually have a console in your living room on which they would work OK?

Are you then going to tell people they should just shell out for an upgrade to 32 GB just to plaster over Valve's ineptitude at reining in Steam's runaway memory use?

Not a console gamer anymore. My first gaming PC 9 years ago didn't even have 8GB RAM, it had 16GB RAM GTX 760 i7 4770S and if wasn't dead and buried would probably have ran steam fine.

[McFlurry Butts]

If you aren't running at least 1024GB of ram, you should stick to Minecraft.

[RedLightning]

Seems to be the adage of late, instead of using optimized code, just let em throw memory and processor at it.

no problem.

Most motherboards that had 8GB would be hard pressed to go to 32 some prob wouldnt take 16GB, unless of course people go out and buy a new motherboard/processor.. etc.

Computers/PC have become throwaway consoles, in my opinion.

Valve/microsoft/google and others just love to help it along.

All in all . .a company with the vast amount of loot in the cave such that Valve has, should be doing a bit better, IMHO.

[Felicity]

32gb is ideal and not even expensive anymore. There is like no reason to stay with 16gb. If you only do one thing at a time you're fine I guess. I feel like I bump against my memory limit a lot with these chunky memory hogs like chrome and steam. If you are still on DDR4 (if you're saying 16gb is fine you probably are) it's like literally $30 to upgrade. You're not looking at $100+ like you used to.

[Illimitus]

My Steam Client no longer works at all, and it's not a problem with system power. Big Picture works. Games work. The steam website works, but not the steam client.

[LazärheaD]

I agree. It's not performance issues, but so many UI bugs have been introduced. Probably to keep the employees job security. Now we will need 2 more years of updates to fix it all. It was almost perfect before the update.

[PocketYoda]

I'm having all sorts of issues now.. too many to list.

[Scaithule]

It's complete ♥♥♥♥ and I hate it. Buggy piece of crap.

[Deadweight]

sometimes the back button on the client breaks now.
no idea if they fixed that steam chat would sometimes close and stop working until restart.
afaik removed some features, like music player

lol