STEAM WEB HELPER CLIENT INCREASES POWER CONSUMPTION

[amazem]

This HAS resulted in higher electricity bills

[ReBoot]

Maybe

[amazem]

I find it quite interesting that a company that calls themselves 'steam powered' creates a client which appears to be designed for maximum energy consumption. I only play a simulator game & it sounds like I am embarking on a hovercraft journey. Is this client even legal? and if so, should it be ?

[Jerry]

Is this a recent problem for you? There have been issues with a client file, that is bugged somewhat and massively increases the RAM demand.

Have a look at the file achievement_progress.json in Steam/userdata/[Your account number]/config/librarycache. If it is bigger than a handful of kilobyte, delete it (Steam will create a new, hopefully uncorrupted version at the next launch).

[nullable]

amazem původně napsal:

This HAS resulted in higher electricity bills

Playing video games uses more. Any number of things you do use more. Not sure why reducing your electric bills is Valve's cross to bear.

amazem původně napsal:

I find it quite interesting that a company that calls themselves 'steam powered' creates a client which appears to be designed for maximum energy consumption. I only play a simulator game & it sounds like I am embarking on a hovercraft journey. Is this client even legal? and if so, should it be ?

Maybe you're not familiar with how some electricity is generated

At any rate your antics aren't that interesting. Your opinions about the client don't raise legal issues.

[amazem]

Thanks for the help Jerry .. that does appear to have made a difference .. but this client is still a total power hog and it is not necessary. Even in offline mode and with no internet it still thrashes the pc. A total waste of electricity.

[Jerry]

amazem původně napsal:

but this client is still a total power hog and it is not necessary.

Spirit of our times. Programmers no longer need to work efficiently, so they don't.
Compare a 2 Megabyte IRC client to the monstrocity, that is Discord these days. Or look around among indie games built on Unity, and ask yourself, which of those things, that eat hundreds of MB or even into the GB scale, would have fit on a 5.25'' floppy back in the days (with half the disk still to spare). Got an (otherwise enjoyable) Idle game, that I play, that looks like a Windows 3.11 screensaver, but needs 2 GB RAM.

Pet peeve of mine too.

[amazem]

Maybe they raise ethical issues nullable ? Why burn away lots of electricy when it's completely unnecessary.. you might get free electric living with mummy and daddy, but I pay for mine and it costs £

[amazem]

It just steadily consumes ..even when idle. If they don't want users tampering with their code, then why do it in the first place if its unnecessary. Spend an extra bit of time on it and save ALL of their customers massive amounts of £ (over time). Imagine all customers usage combined.. it's unethical and borderline criminal.

[amazem]

You wouldn't go panning for gold with a hole in the pan would you ? I am in the uk and we have to source lots of our energy from other Nations at great cost... this steam platform is a total leech and its unnecessary.

[nullable]

amazem původně napsal:

Maybe they raise ethical issues nullable ?

For you maybe. But software and computers using electricity don't raise ethical issues in general.

amazem původně napsal:

Why burn away lots of electricy when it's completely unnecessary.. you might get free electric living with mummy and daddy, but I pay for mine and it costs £

Well singling out a single application to grind your ax doesn't make so much sense. Most of what your PC is doing from moment to moment is a waste of electricity from some perspective. Why is yours so important?

What is the cost of running Steam compared to the whole cost of running your PC? If you're not able to provide hard numbers, well, big surprise.

If Steam costs you so much to run, stop running it.

[Carlos100]

2 pages of google chrome uses more than my steam client
My client is a steady 300-400 MB and always has been