Steam UI lagging and sluggish

[Lord Retro]

Ever since the latest update Steam is extremely unresponsiv to mouse and keyboard. LAgspikes of up to 10 seconds before it keeps scrolling or typing

[Seadrill]

have the same problem. i have to restart the steam client 3-4 times until it works fine. it's so annoying...

[nevik92]

Same here
Moreover I can't start any game while the client is lagging.
After restarting a few times it works again. Have it since a few weeks now

[B✪✪tsy]

I have no lag issues with the client, but I often I get a blanco activity page when I select that tab. I have to go back to my Library and then again to the activity page (3 or more times) before the activty page finally loads.

[ugafan]

very laggy. stops responding completely when i go into big picture mode.

[Van.Hallgate]

Hello there players!
I've changed a little my tutorial on how make Steam application not so laggy.

Solution One

In Steam application go to Settings, and then open Web Browser tab.
Click on both options: Delete Web Browser Cache, and Delete All Browser Cookies.
In few seconds your Steam application should be running fast once more.

Solution Two

You need to close down Steam application.
Check task manager if there are no steam, steamwebhelper, steamoverlay, etc. in processes.
If they are any - force to close them, by pressing End task button.
Now you need to go to your Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Internet Options.
When window will pop-up, go to Connections tab, and press LAN settings button.
Please uncheck first option called Automatically detect settings and click OK.
Now you can close all open settings windows and run Steam application.

The second solution is a little strange but it really works for a lot of people.
Hope I helped you guys! Take care!

[B✪✪tsy]

Originally posted by Van.Hallgate:

Try this solution:
Go to Settings, and then open Web Browser tab.
Click on both: Delete Web Browser Cache, and Delete All Browser Cookies.
In few seconds your Steam Client will be running great.

This fixed my issue it seems! I use Steam for almost 10 years and this is the first time I cleared the steam browser cache o_O

[Kaldaien]

Which UI are you referring to? The Steam client, or the overlay

The overlay's been having these problems for a while now. The more times you open the overlay, inexplicably, the longer it takes to respond to input events such as the D-Pad on a gamepad.

[aleks]

Originally posted by Van.Hallgate:

Hello there players!
I've changed a little my tutorial on how make Steam application not so laggy.

Solution One

In Steam application go to Settings, and then open Web Browser tab.
Click on both options: Delete Web Browser Cache, and Delete All Browser Cookies.
In few seconds your Steam application should be running fast once more.

This worked for me. Thank-you, I've been having this issue for a while now and said ♥♥♥♥ it and Googled it.

[Van.Hallgate]

Originally posted by ^2karma:

This worked for me. Thank-you, I've been having this issue for a while now and said ♥♥♥♥ it and Googled it.

I'm glad it helped You :)

[TheHanna]

Originally posted by Van.Hallgate:

Solution Two

You need to close down Steam application.
Check task manager if there are no steam, steamwebhelper, steamoverlay, etc. in processes.
If they are any - force to close them, by pressing End task button.
Now you need to go to your Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Internet Options.
When window will pop-up, go to Connections tab, and press LAN settings button.
Please uncheck first option called Automatically detect settings and click OK.
Now you can close all open settings windows and run Steam application.

The second solution is a little strange but it really works for a lot of people.

It definitely worked for me. Any idea as to why it works?

[Van.Hallgate]

Originally posted by TheHanna:

It definitely worked for me. Any idea as to why it works?

It's because Steam inbuilt browser have sometimes problem and it's incompatible with this option (Automatically Detect Settings). Sometimes it's happens to other old internet dependent applications and nobody nearly needs this feature right now.

If anyone struggle to still have a huge lag loading Steam or Steam Store page after following the two above steps, you can also try changing Downloading Region to fix not only that, but also downloading games speed.
To change that you need to go to Settings, then go to Downloads tab and change Download Region to some prefferd location, that will be different from current option.
After that click on OK button and restart Steam application to check if it wroking and downloading games faster.

[:>]

Originally posted by Van.Hallgate:

Hello there players!
I've changed a little my tutorial on how make Steam application not so laggy.

Solution One

In Steam application go to Settings, and then open Web Browser tab.
Click on both options: Delete Web Browser Cache, and Delete All Browser Cookies.
In few seconds your Steam application should be running fast once more.

Solution Two

You need to close down Steam application.
Check task manager if there are no steam, steamwebhelper, steamoverlay, etc. in processes.
If they are any - force to close them, by pressing End task button.
Now you need to go to your Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Internet Options.
When window will pop-up, go to Connections tab, and press LAN settings button.
Please uncheck first option called Automatically detect settings and click OK.
Now you can close all open settings windows and run Steam application.

The second solution is a little strange but it really works for a lot of people.
Hope I helped you guys! Take care!

It actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ worked, just got it randomly today been using steam for like 5 years never laggy and now it lagged but ur tips helped me, ty sir!

[kvlt]

Originally posted by Van.Hallgate:

Hello there players!
I've changed a little my tutorial on how make Steam application not so laggy.

Solution One

In Steam application go to Settings, and then open Web Browser tab.
Click on both options: Delete Web Browser Cache, and Delete All Browser Cookies.
In few seconds your Steam application should be running fast once more.

Solution Two

You need to close down Steam application.
Check task manager if there are no steam, steamwebhelper, steamoverlay, etc. in processes.
If they are any - force to close them, by pressing End task button.
Now you need to go to your Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Internet Options.
When window will pop-up, go to Connections tab, and press LAN settings button.
Please uncheck first option called Automatically detect settings and click OK.
Now you can close all open settings windows and run Steam application.

The second solution is a little strange but it really works for a lot of people.
Hope I helped you guys! Take care!

OK I love you

[Charles van Pelt]

i tried all the solutions but it didn't help me ;-;