Is there a steam lightweight alternative launcher for linux and windows?

[AntiGrieferGames]

The Offiical Client is bloated in terms of rams (1gb+ Ram usage/600mb+ ram usage on small mode) and no way to reduce the ram usage on its client itelf...

[eram]

steam has 1 launcher

[AntiGrieferGames]

Originally posted by eram:

steam has 1 launcher

Im very sure there a alternative.

[eram]

Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:

Originally posted by eram:

steam has 1 launcher

Im very sure there a alternative.

https://store.steampowered.com/about/

[Kargor]

Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:

Originally posted by eram:

steam has 1 launcher

Im very sure there a alternative.

There is a problem with that.

While its certainly possible to make your own client-like software -- I'm doing that myself, and there are well-known ones like ASF -- you can't really do the "game launching" part.

I haven't looked into it, but I suspect that the "game downloading" isn't a major issue, and "installing" is only a platform thing anyway once you have the download.

However, running the game requires a library that interacts with the Steam client, and the one provided by Steam (and bundled with the games?) is likely going to interact with the official Steam client only.

Normal client<->server interactions are reasonably well understood and easy to replicate because there are plenty of people reverse-engineering this, and either documenting it or having open source tools that implement it. However, reverse-engineering the Steam library that enforces the DRM to examine its interactions with the Steam client, and trying to publicly document it will likely not go down well with Valve.

Likewise, if you want to do that reverse-engineering yourself, not document it, and just use it in your own client -- that's still very much borderline piracy even if you're doing the same DRM stuff. Chances are, Valve still won't like it.

I have actually thought about doing this when Valve announced giving in to Microsofts "Win7 is unsupported" agenda: why don't I just give my own client the ability to download games? That lasted only a few minutes, though, when I realized that I don't even need the "downloading" part -- one can still download the game somewhere else and just copy it to the Win7 box, no problem there. The real challenge would be "running the game", which is an entirely separate API that I know nothing about, and consists of many cans of worms.

[JohnOver]

windows better

[AntiGrieferGames]

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:

Im very sure there a alternative.

https://store.steampowered.com/about/

Not a alternative, its the official bloated one.

[AntiGrieferGames]

Originally posted by JohnOver:

windows better

what do you mean?

[lailaamell]

Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:

The Offiical Client is bloated in terms of rams (1gb+ Ram usage/600mb+ ram usage on small mode) and no way to reduce the ram usage on its client itelf...

gog you dont even need a launcher so its even more lightweight or epic games

[AntiGrieferGames]

Originally posted by lailaamell:

Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:

The Offiical Client is bloated in terms of rams (1gb+ Ram usage/600mb+ ram usage on small mode) and no way to reduce the ram usage on its client itelf...

gog you dont even need a launcher so its even more lightweight or epic games

I know that, but those are store alternatives, not steam lightweight client alternatives

[lailaamell]

Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:

Originally posted by lailaamell:

gog you dont even need a launcher so its even more lightweight or epic games

I know that, but those are store alternatives, not steam lightweight client alternatives

there is no lightweight steam alternetive ppl already tried to explain that to you that his ver is the only ver you got there isnt some custom bare boned version of steam