New Steam Client Using 490 MB's of Memory???

[JockoFlocko]

It's bad enough this thing has to always be running in the background even when I'm not downloading updates or purchasing games, but this release after all the Steam services are added up is now using 522 MB's of system memory in Windows 10.

[GRATS]

Originalmente postado por Tick-tock:

Originalmente postado por Nebo Strelok ☢:

It uses Chromium now like Google Chrome, kinda speaks for itself...

jesus christ really?

ValvE has been around since forever, there's no way they didn't know that would be a bad idea.

steam has used chromium for it's built in browser for like 10 years.

[Gunardian]

Can we jump off to the solution, if you have nasa pc just back off.

[RiO]

Originalmente postado por ragefifty50:

i turned off - enable hardware acceleration

i went from 800mb while idle to 430mb

for what steam does... i want it to use as little of my resources as possible...

Just turn off the whole Steam Overlay.
That's the best way to go about it.

If you game without the overlay active and with the Steam Client's desktop UI stuck passively on the library, it shouldn't allow Chromium to leak a lot of memory.


The new overlay has plenty more issues than just a memory leak anyway.
It's possible to accidentally semi-permanently brick it entirely, right now.
Or to be stuck with a storefront page playing back video and audio over the top of your game, but without an actual browser tab present allowing you to close it off. (And that condition persists across game launches and reboots!)

[Chesmu]

Microsoft and other tech companies really needs people to buy their computers, windows and new garbage.

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Originalmente postado por Chesmu:

Microsoft and other tech companies really needs people to buy their computers, windows and new garbage.

did you only buy old second hand stuff to get online to type this.....

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Originalmente postado por RiO:

Originalmente postado por ragefifty50:

i turned off - enable hardware acceleration

i went from 800mb while idle to 430mb

for what steam does... i want it to use as little of my resources as possible...

Just turn off the whole Steam Overlay.
That's the best way to go about it.

If you game without the overlay active and with the Steam Client's desktop UI stuck passively on the library, it shouldn't allow Chromium to leak a lot of memory.


The new overlay has plenty more issues than just a memory leak anyway.
It's possible to accidentally semi-permanently brick it entirely, right now.
Or to be stuck with a storefront page playing back video and audio over the top of your game, but without an actual browser tab present allowing you to close it off. (And that condition persists across game launches and reboots!)

thanks RiO

i must be a terrible steam user..
i really dont have many problems..

ram reduction is a steady 656 while i just idle around the forums..

[bidulless]

Originalmente postado por ragefifty50:

Originalmente postado por RiO:

Just turn off the whole Steam Overlay.
That's the best way to go about it.

If you game without the overlay active and with the Steam Client's desktop UI stuck passively on the library, it shouldn't allow Chromium to leak a lot of memory.


The new overlay has plenty more issues than just a memory leak anyway.
It's possible to accidentally semi-permanently brick it entirely, right now.
Or to be stuck with a storefront page playing back video and audio over the top of your game, but without an actual browser tab present allowing you to close it off. (And that condition persists across game launches and reboots!)

thanks RiO

i must be a terrible steam user..
i really dont have many problems..

ram reduction is a steady 656 while i just idle around the forums..

Hello

No clue if this work again under the new ui update
https://i.postimg.cc/2y7T9CWg/zCapture.jpg
but like that you won't be able to use anything like chat, screenshot, memo, store or anything else, just launching your game but it's easy to achieve if you really need more free memory. And it have some kind of limitation , may be online game game like cs-go and such.

[Douglas]

works on my machine

[dogdaddonga]

this is what these morons got rid of w7 and 8 support for it looks terrible
i have 16gb laptops and 32gb main pc even 1gb client usage is insane

[blehmeh98]

Originalmente postado por Mad Scientist:

Originalmente postado por mdln:

Care to elaborate or is that all you have?

If I want to use less and do overly specific things that doesn't rely on windows, Rpi is what I'd use.

If I want to be able to do anything, I use windows. Newer apps are meant to have more function, often they have child processes or begin using another depending on the task. Thus, depending on the needs, functions of the app, what the system does, needs, and what else the user wants; you'll need mrie ram, period. Modern is, more ram. Modern app, more ram.

Apps do more than just send little instant messages or use small kb sized web pages.

If you want to to basically nothing but said specific thing, you use something like Linux or aio systems which run in practically no power and still have 2-8gbs of ram, often they will consume 500mbs to several Gbs, because the more you add and run, the more you need.

This isn't a text based gui, using incomparable examples to try saying things are "bloated" is intellectually dishonest.

Its like trying to say a bicycle can haul as much as a semi truck and be as compliant as a semi truck.

You are likely experienced with using Linux for hobbyist and DIY projects with servers and embedded computers, but you may not have tried Linux on a conventional computer. This would mean you have viewed Linux through the limitations of these more specialized/limited systems. I think this is causing you to get the wrong idea altogether about “Desktop Linux”.

The Debian setup that mln was describing is an every-day setup meant for handling the same types of tasks that Windows does. I know because I’ve set up a similar system myself and used it for several years during college as my main computer! And it’s not some icky “bicycle computing” experience where you get limitations and safety rails either, it’s a capital-C Computer. I would use this setup for everything I needed or wanted to do, from browsing the web to handing massive excel sheets and writing essays using Libre Office. I also edited images regularly in Gimp, built 3D models in Blender, set up an extensive programming environment and write software both recreationally and for school assignments in C and Python, and built a few little hobbyist games using Godot.

One time during a crunch period for a game I was working on, I had Godot, Blender, Gimp, a music player program, and a web browser with many tabs of documentation open all at the same time. I had them on different “workspaces” that I could switch between with a keyboard shortcut or an on-screen widget, not unlike a fake virtual multi-monitor setup. Everything felt fast and smooth, and everything worked well without a hitch.

The above paragraph happened in late 2020 on midrange hardware that debuted in 2012 that I purchased for $200 USD. I only had 4 GB of ram total, but everything ran very fast and very smooth. This is because the base system only used a few hundred MB for the software itself and even with all that software running, I still had a little under half a GB to spare, with no disk drive swap space being used to substitute for RAM at all.

I run Steam on this computer to play some older games when I’m away from home (I have a desktop computer here but I don’t lug it everywhere I go). In the past, Steam didn’t take too much RAM. Now, if it does, it may push a few games over the edge, like Garry’s Mod (not too bad on that machine’s CPU and GPU, but you need RAM for mods). CPU consumption is also an isssue; I’ve noticed performance boosts from closing or even just minimizing a steam chat window or friends list because the whimsical animated profile pictures took up so much CPU time to animate, and that was before the UI change.

If an entire OS functional for serious work can stick to a few hundred MB even today, then Valve can make an optional minimal version of steam with fewer features but also way less RAM consumption. Thing is, they already have; if you click the “Small Mode” button under the “View” menu, you get a thin list of your games rather than the full Steam Library view. This can be combined with the -no-browser launch option for Steam to hopefully reduce resource consumption.

[OverlandObject]

Originalmente postado por blehmeh98:

This can be combined with the -no-browser launch option for Steam to hopefully reduce resource consumption.

Too bad this was removed.

[zero254]

It's pathetic that a ui this flat colored and ugly takes up this much resource even on a high end machine I do not like it.

[vasyan]

Originalmente postado por Oz Gaming:

I have 32GB of Ram. The new Steam Client seems to be working nice and smoothly. People with say 8 or only 4GB Ram might find the new client is impacting their system.

32Gb? Get on the next level, 512Gb or bust, if you can't run 200 instances of sandboxed chromium, you're not fit for this world

[Gunardian]

Originalmente postado por vasyan:

Originalmente postado por Oz Gaming:

I have 32GB of Ram. The new Steam Client seems to be working nice and smoothly. People with say 8 or only 4GB Ram might find the new client is impacting their system.

32Gb? Get on the next level, 512Gb or bust, if you can't run 200 instances of sandboxed chromium, you're not fit for this world :eng:

this is fun game until reload function stuck and keep reloading every 3 minute, say goodbye to 32gb of ram. why support bloated system from the start?

[blehmeh98]

Originalmente postado por OverlandObject:

Originalmente postado por blehmeh98:

This can be combined with the -no-browser launch option for Steam to hopefully reduce resource consumption.

Too bad this was removed.

oh shoot, I guess it was :\