How to *Temporarily* disable Steam Client WebHelper?

[Juanma]

I've never had an issue with this permanently running part of the client, but yesterday I tried to play Monster Hunter Wilds' beta, and that game is pushing my ram to the absolute limit, and pretty often beyond, causing a crash within 10-30 minutes of playing. So I'm trying to remove the one background process that is eating the most ram of all, which is Webhelper.

Is there a way to shut it down while a game is running, or at least cause it to be in a low ram mode?

[Komarimaru]

Run Steam in Simple mode is it. May be time to look at hardware upgrades though if running out of memory for the beta. It's open world designed.

[Wolfpig]

If your game crashes because of not enough ram...then ít wont help to kill other processes, as those will usually get less ram by the system if it is needed somewhere else either way.

And as the Storepage says that it needs 16GB of Ram......

[Juanma]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If your game crashes because of not enough ram...then ít wont help to kill other processes, as those will usually get less ram by the system if it is needed somewhere else either way.

And as the Storepage says that it needs 16GB of Ram......

It's using 30% of ram, that's 4.8 gb, out of the 16 my cpu has...

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Run Steam in Simple mode is it. May be time to look at hardware upgrades though if running out of memory for the beta. It's open world designed.

How do I do that?

Also I got a hardware upgrade like 4 months ago. I have no issues running open world games at max graphics at all. This is THE ONE game that is having issues. And apparently I'm not alone. The choppy graphics and crashes are a common occurence.

[Komarimaru]

Originally posted by Juanma:

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If your game crashes because of not enough ram...then ít wont help to kill other processes, as those will usually get less ram by the system if it is needed somewhere else either way.

And as the Storepage says that it needs 16GB of Ram......

It's using 30% of ram, that's 4.8 gb, out of the 16 my cpu has...

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Run Steam in Simple mode is it. May be time to look at hardware upgrades though if running out of memory for the beta. It's open world designed.

How do I do that?

Top of Steam, Vew Small Mode.

4.8GB doesn't sound right though for ram usage. It was using 14GB for me during the beta out of my 32GB.

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by Juanma:

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If your game crashes because of not enough ram...then ít wont help to kill other processes, as those will usually get less ram by the system if it is needed somewhere else either way.

And as the Storepage says that it needs 16GB of Ram......

It's using 30% of ram, that's 4.8 gb, out of the 16 my cpu has...

If the game only uses 30% of ram it would not crash of not enough available ram.......

[Juanma]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

Originally posted by Juanma:

It's using 30% of ram, that's 4.8 gb, out of the 16 my cpu has...

If the game only uses 30% of ram it would not crash of not enough available ram.......

WebHelper is the one eating up 30% of the ram....
(also on closer inspection it's closer to 25%, there's lots of smaller processes)

[Komarimaru]

Originally posted by Juanma:

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If the game only uses 30% of ram it would not crash of not enough available ram.......

WebHelper is the one eating up 30% of the ram....
(also on closer inspection it's closer to 25%, there's lots of smaller processes)

That doesn't make much sense. You are on Windows 10 1909 or higher, and have steam updated correct? They fixed that bug months ago that some were getting.

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Originally posted by Juanma:

It's using 30% of ram, that's 4.8 gb, out of the 16 my cpu has...





How do I do that?

Top of Steam, Vew Small Mode.

4.8GB doesn't sound right though for ram usage. It was using 14GB for me during the beta out of my 32GB.

Chromium uses more memory if your system has more memory. It won't use 14GB out of 16GB the same way it uses 14GB out of 32GB.

[InnerPhoenix]

ya steam has become Bloat-Ware , so much useless crap, could be more efficient and better, but lame valve trying too dam hard to be the cool kid.

[TITOMOSQUITO187]

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Originally posted by Juanma:

It's using 30% of ram, that's 4.8 gb, out of the 16 my cpu has...





How do I do that?

Top of Steam, Vew Small Mode.

4.8GB doesn't sound right though for ram usage. It was using 14GB for me during the beta out of my 32GB.

Even if this isn't an issue, knowing that about small mode is useful. I notice the client when left open during a game, on that game's Library Page, Steam push a lot of memory usage. So I usually just X Steam Out to the toolbar, but small mode would do that, and more it sounds like.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by InnerPhoenix:

ya steam has become Bloat-Ware , so much useless crap, could be more efficient and better, but lame valve trying too dam hard to be the cool kid.

Apparently having 'a web browser' is now bloatware

[Juanma]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by InnerPhoenix:

ya steam has become Bloat-Ware , so much useless crap, could be more efficient and better, but lame valve trying too dam hard to be the cool kid.

Apparently having 'a web browser' is now bloatware

It is when the program that adds it isn't a web browser.