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.

[DiBBz]

740mb here out of game, 1GB while in game

[phosTR]

i'm gonna have to buy more RAM

[strata]

This is ridiculous. After this UI update, Steam now showing up on my memory monitor as "processes with high ram usage" and it has not only one copy of around 700mb while running, but another smaller copy of 226mb for a total of 1GB in hog using resources,,,just for steam? Give me a break! Please give an option for "light steam" and let us not have to have this crap memory hogger on our system just to play a damn game...

[Milca_11]

700 mb for me, This update is actually terrible

[Dune Tiger]

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

400? mines using 650mb.

i'd like to be able to toggle back to the old version.

sure this one is flashy and all but i don't use steam to drink my pc resources, its a game library man. its not supposed to take more resources than a game. loool

edit 814 now lol
edit2 - after disabling everything that makes the new ui interesting, its gone down to 519, and seems to have stopped leaking.
edit3 - well something got changed. using 129 now. 70mb while in game.

What did you do to disable everything?

[budisourdog]

my system is using 790 mb memory for steam. doing nothing, just having this window open. "performance is better now"

[i know kung fu]

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Why the F does the login screen have an animated background now? So ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wasteful.

Seeing a blurry picture of Among Us is awesome and I love it...

[i know kung fu]

Originally posted by strata:

This is ridiculous. After this UI update, Steam now showing up on my memory monitor as "processes with high ram usage" and it has not only one copy of around 700mb while running, but another smaller copy of 226mb for a total of 1GB in hog using resources,,,just for steam? Give me a break! Please give an option for "light steam" and let us not have to have this crap memory hogger on our system just to play a damn game...

time to unironically buy games on windows store/epic

[davidb11]

Mine is currently running at 418 MB of Ram, and it's very small. LOL.

Literally no one can complain about that.
Every video game ever eats a lot more than that.
Unless you loaded up Doom from 1993.

It's literally a non issue.
OKay, so it's up to 430 now, but still.
Terraria eats up more than this.

I have 16GB.
IT's perfectly fine.

[Yu Ryujin]

having or not ram is not the thing here, we are talking about efficiency, quality and good programming.
A program using more than what it should for doing actually little or things you cant even disable is... Its simply not good work.

Chrome is simply BAD.

Valve, how things going my guys?

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

i just changed to small for library... 10% change there...
i get 450mb when i restart... but then when i go in and out of
library its around 518mb

[Daikatan]

And this is why we were disappointed when they removed -no-browser launch option that was helpful to minimize ram usage of Steam.

A shame that plenty of people are just ignorant with their opinion about this, when in fact even if you do not have 4 or 8 gb ram but 16 or 32 gb instead, it is still important to have an option to reduce Steam RAM usage as much as you can.

With -no-browser option you could make Steam only use like 70-90 mb. See the difference?!

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

That's not really an issue unless you have an insignificant amount of ram. Browser tabs can easily consume 500-700MBs especially if you're watching or pause a video.

A long time ago 16GBs was recommended for PC gaming. These days I'd say 24-36 gb is recommended for gaming. 500MBs is nothing, how much do you have installed?

Doesn't matter if it's "nothing", making your program more bloated & resource-hoggy, for no apparent reason or gain, is stupid and inefficient.

Also e.g. say you still have outdated laptop. Thing is, all those games you played on it will play without a problem, but Steam becoming more resource heavy makes them unplayable. Which is nonsence. I have an old notebook where I could play Crysis Warhead just fine, but now Steam doesn't eats too much memory compared to what it used to so I only play on my current desktop instead if we talk Steam nowadays, even though disk versions are as fine as they were on that oldie.

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Task Manager says 7 instances of Steam Client Webhelper using 618mb. And all I'm doing is reading this forum.

The HUGE PROBLEM of Steam is how they gave up on "native" UI and chose web-based UI instead.

[Plaid]

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Task Manager says 7 instances of Steam Client Webhelper using 618mb. And all I'm doing is reading this forum.

lol! Almost as if the client is having a hard time and needs all the help it can get to function.

[davidb11]

Guys, please, over-exaggerating the issue doesn't help.

420 to 500 MB is still less than EVERY game ever made in the last 15 years.

Go launch Morrowind and then tell me how much it uses.

I have Chrome running in the background, with a lot of tabs, and it's at 1.5 GB.
Steam is barely at 430 MB.

IT has always been this way.

[MonkehMaster]

for me...

steam exe, steamservice exe and 7 webhelpers

steam fresh startup and gpu accel on

798MB ram and vram shows as 516MB (45MB being used by steam, the rest is likely being used for the desktop... im assuming)

gpu accel off and steam restart (fresh startup)

801MB ram and vram shows up 461MB


in general, steam is using way to much ram and it builds up the longer steam is left running, before i restarted steam it was using exactly 1GB.