Grisu Jun 25, 2020 @ 9:15pm
How to disable all "Bling Bling"?
Hi!

Steam went from "bad" to "hell" with the latest Summer Sale in performance terms.

How can I disable all the system drag?

Sorry, but I don't want to waste my system for background tasks to run even more animated gifs and getting black screens and lag.

Grisu


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You can't.

It's a feature. :ashlol:


:seewhatyoudid:
Originally posted by SMUCKEY:
I don't like how private profiles are displayed. See what it looks like on a standard browser without add-ons https://imgur.com/RHOicF6
With "bling bling" I can stand it.
Neither do some of the forum mods, apparently:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/2577696996223089812/#c2577696996223147358
lol

It's very funny to me. That grey box was always there, btw, it just blended in much better before everything else went black.


:seewhatyoudid:
м Jul 7, 2020 @ 6:37am 
it's kinda odd that you complain about that stuff, while you also use animated avatar frame and mini profile :winter2019joyfultearsyul:

and if it makes your system run slow, maybe, MAYBE it's about time to get a new pc.
Originally posted by Grisu:
How to disable all "Bling Bling"?

Originally posted by M:
it's kinda odd that you complain about that stuff, while you also use animated avatar frame and mini profile :winter2019joyfultearsyul:

and if it makes your system run slow, maybe, MAYBE it's about time to get a new pc.

Nowhere in this post did it say that it makes his system run slow:
Originally posted by Grisu:
Hi!

Steam went from "bad" to "hell" with the latest Summer Sale in performance terms.

How can I disable all the system drag?

Sorry, but I don't want to waste my system for background tasks to run even more animated gifs and getting black screens and lag.

Grisu

It likely is affecting him in the same way it is affecting everyone else who is noticing a performance difference, though, in that the CPU usage rate increases by about 10% (variable depending on CPU strength) when the animations are on-screen (in the case of the gold background, more like 80%, but only for the gold background).

This is somewhat tolerable on profiles after a time but this CPU rise happens even when the animations are displayed on the Friend List which used to be useful to have open at all times, including while idling.

I don't know about you, but I don't want my CPU sitting at 18% while idling when it normally sits at 6% while idling, especially since my computer gets hotter a lot faster at the higher CPU rate (even at a small increase such as that) (and also it's summer-time, extra heat is not really acceptable).

For those reasons, I have taken steps to hide all friends that have the effects in collapsed categories in my friend list - however, either way, this makes the friend list less useful.


:seewhatyoudid:
Radene Jul 7, 2020 @ 7:46am 
On the scale of 1 to Myspace, how unnecessarily gaudy is Steam these days?
Originally posted by M:
Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:
Nowhere in this post did it say that it makes his system run slow:

oh, really? then what is this about?
his wasching machine? :winter2019joyfultearsyul:

Originally posted by Grisu:
in performance terms. ...
How can I disable all the
system drag
I can see why you'd interpret this that way but that is still not necessarily what he was saying.

"Drag" could mean so many different things.

The part before it about "performance terms" was what caught my attention the most but it is even more vague than the term, "drag".

However, it is entirely possible that's exactly what he meant and my own interpretation is [possibly] just wrong because his experience is possibly different than mine (and a few others that I've read about).


:seewhatyoudid:
Washell Jul 7, 2020 @ 8:39am 
Originally posted by Radene:
On the scale of 1 to Myspace, how unnecessarily gaudy is Steam these days?
Off the scale at GeoCities.
ElvisDeadly Jul 7, 2020 @ 9:10am 
Originally posted by Radene:
On the scale of 1 to Myspace, how unnecessarily gaudy is Steam these days?

They just need to add a music player to profiles and we are 100% there
Originally posted by ElvisDeadly:
Originally posted by Radene:
On the scale of 1 to Myspace, how unnecessarily gaudy is Steam these days?

They just need to add a music player to profiles and we are 100% there
I suggested this a year ago and everyone hated the idea - however, it's not like I want these things implemented without an option in the client settings to turn them off for yourself.

If they implement such a thing without giving us an option in the setting to turn it off, then despite the fact that I, myself, even suggested it, I will still hate it. ("Thanks! I hate it.")


:seewhatyoudid:
wuddih Jul 7, 2020 @ 9:46am 
Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:
Originally posted by ElvisDeadly:

They just need to add a music player to profiles and we are 100% there
I suggested this a year ago and everyone hated the idea - however, it's not like I want these things implemented without an option in the client settings to turn them off for yourself.

If they implement such a thing without giving us an option in the setting to turn it off, then despite the fact that I, myself, even suggested it, I will still hate it. ("Thanks! I hate it.")


:seewhatyoudid:
99.99% of all music in games was just permitted contractually to be used in the game and if sold on Steam as additional content, then also just for restrictive personal use. your profile being visited by someone else is no longer for your personal use.

this suggestion breaks so many laws, it is by design not possible. especially not how you two imagine that it should be.
ElvisDeadly Jul 7, 2020 @ 10:02am 
Originally posted by wuddih:
Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:
I suggested this a year ago and everyone hated the idea - however, it's not like I want these things implemented without an option in the client settings to turn them off for yourself.

If they implement such a thing without giving us an option in the setting to turn it off, then despite the fact that I, myself, even suggested it, I will still hate it. ("Thanks! I hate it.")


:seewhatyoudid:
99.99% of all music in games was just permitted contractually to be used in the game and if sold on Steam as additional content, then also just for restrictive personal use. your profile being visited by someone else is no longer for your personal use.

this suggestion breaks so many laws, it is by design not possible. especially not how you two imagine that it should be.

Imagine it should be?

I was making a joke in response to Radene's post....

Originally posted by Radene:
On the scale of 1 to Myspace, how unnecessarily gaudy is Steam these days?
Originally posted by Grisu:
How to disable all "Bling Bling"?

Originally posted by wuddih:
Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:
I suggested this a year ago and everyone hated the idea - however, it's not like I want these things implemented without an option in the client settings to turn them off for yourself.

If they implement such a thing without giving us an option in the setting to turn it off, then despite the fact that I, myself, even suggested it, I will still hate it. ("Thanks! I hate it.")


:seewhatyoudid:
99.99% of all music in games was just permitted contractually to be used in the game and if sold on Steam as additional content, then also just for restrictive personal use. your profile being visited by someone else is no longer for your personal use.

this suggestion breaks so many laws, it is by design not possible. especially not how you two imagine that it should be.
#1. Use a real statistic or don't go pulling made-up junk out of thin-air.


#2. My suggestion (from the past, that I only referenced because of user:"ElvisDeadly's" relevant joke as to the direction Steam seems to be headed) is free speech that doesn't, actually, break any laws, as you imply, & frankly the implementation of what is being suggested doesn't have to break any laws either.

You seem to be making a number of assumptions about what is being implied by -how- the suggestion would be implemented. Your conclusion is vastly different than anything that I actually said.


#3. You're the one who is not understanding / mistaken.
Developers determine what emoticons, trading cards, badges, profile backgrounds, stickers, and other Steam inventory assets / marketable items are available on Steam - if any.
The developers design them and the developers decide what is allowed to be a Steam Community Market / inventory item, including profile content. This is typically done for the purpose of having content that is promotional material for the game - however, the points shop now also shows that same material to be part of a rewards program.

Why do you assume that "profile music" would work any differently than "profile backgrounds"?
Do you not think that the images that are profile backgrounds are not also copyrighted?

I suggest you read up on Steamworks documents & perhaps also inform yourself about the basics of copyright law & how music for video games is made if you're going to make such poorly informed, accusatory, & more importantly - incorrect, assertions.

Here's a helpful link:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/tradingcards

Read it or don't; it confirms much of what I have just described, though.

A game doesn't even have to drop trading cards, have badges, or have emoticons if a developer chooses not to have those.

The idea is actually perfectly doable with any developers / publishers who own the rights to their own game's music (see: most of them, actually) and would even fall right in-line with this new direction that the points shop has taken us - whether any of us actually likes it or not.
The only question remaining is whether they'll actually do it or not...


:seewhatyoudid: :steamfacepalm:
Last edited by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏; Jul 7, 2020 @ 11:38am
Amt Jul 7, 2020 @ 11:45am 
Originally posted by M:
it's kinda odd that you complain about that stuff, while you also use animated avatar frame and mini profile :winter2019joyfultearsyul:

and if it makes your system run slow, maybe, MAYBE it's about time to get a new pc.

So because what is essentially a DRM-software is increasing system demands, that means one should get a new PC? Don't you think it's more appropriate to upgrade your PC to play new games rather than just to run its DRM-software? Why should he need to upgrade his PC if said PC runs games just fine, but suddenly the DRM-software makes it slow?

If it has all been running fine until just recently, then which one can truly be said to be at fault here; his PC or Steam?
Last edited by Amt; Jul 7, 2020 @ 11:56am
As I have been against adding these types of thing to Steam especially animatd avatars (but they took it much farther than I thought, with mini profile, backgrounds, avatar frames, etc.)

I am fine with it overall but there needs to be an option to turn all of these new additions off and make everything static for those that are having troubles with Steam now and those of us that do and will find them annoying to look at eventually.
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