Steam grid view images SLOW! Why aren't they cached?

[mutiny]

I have over 500 games in my Steam library. When scrolling in grid view it looks terrible. Every image takes 5-10 seconds to load, meaning scrolling shows no banners unless I sit on the page for a bit. What's worse is when I scroll down (so the images are offscreen) then scroll back up to the same images that just loaded THEY'RE NOT LOADED! So they aren't caching AT ALL.

Why is this? I imagine Valve doesn't want to waste the bandwidth and I don't like my library looking like sh*t. What is the solution? Can the end user do anything to fix it because I highly doubt Valve is going to.

Thanks.

[ShaDoW]

Gabriel původně napsal:

Still not fixed, Valve! I'm forced to detail view because of this. Scrolling in Grid view this way, it is unbearable. Why aren't they cached? It's beyond me.

I think it's only going to get worse since they're going to be moving the steam client to a web-based tech:

https://twitter.com/steamdb/status/1084872562289582081

[¿Carlo?]

Sarge původně napsal:

¿Carlo? původně napsal:

Hey Sarge i tried both you version and the original but i cant get it to work.
The program tells me that it cant find the Steam installation folder and that i should drag and drop it in there but after doing that nothing happens. I tried hiting enter which closed the programm and i tried doning nothing.
Do you have any idea what i am doing wrong.

Is THIS the error you get? (line 154) -> https://github.com/Sgt-Nukem/steamgrid/blob/master/users.go#L154

As it seems SteamGrid just scans the regular installation directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam" and bails out if not found.

However you can provide the Steam install dir as a command line argument.

Or just drag'n'drop the "Steam folder" onto the EXE file (which eventually does the same) like so: https://i.imgur.com/XwaakHo.gif

Let me know if this helps.

If you still cannot get it to work, please provide a screenshot or the exact errors that pop up, and your Steam installation folder. When I get some spare time, I'd like to investigate and help out.

Thank you it worked. I thought you had to drag and drop it into the open program

[Allan Shinji (;]

Thank You!

[abysss24]

Thanks, this workaround works perfectly!

[BridgetFisher]

Can support be added to pull banners for video files on steam?

Seems this only does games not the movies or tv shows like Super Mario Bros :(

[Baltist]

Honestly, they should just give users the option of using the old Steam library. Didn't have any of the dumb *** issues this new library has. And the sad part is that many of these issues were brought up in beta months ago and instead of doing anything to fix them they instead decided to push out Remote Play (which, surprise surprise, doesn't tend to work for many users either).

[mutiny]

Baltist původně napsal:

Honestly, they should just give users the option of using the old Steam library. Didn't have any of the dumb *** issues this new library has. And the sad part is that many of these issues were brought up in beta months ago and instead of doing anything to fix them they instead decided to push out Remote Play (which, surprise surprise, doesn't tend to work for many users either).

I wish this was an option. I rarely have Steam open because the vertical banners look awful. I don't know who's idea it was to throw away a complete collection of horizontal banners in favor of forcing new images that only 1/3 of the games comply with, but it was bad then and it's bad now.