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Because it worked on the steam 2023 and not the last one.
Disabling gpu accel use less ram and prevent some weird artifact like some people have .
That's not the norm! Have you tried solving the root problem? Is your videocard driver up-to-date? (and i'm speaking not of drivers from Windows Update, but from your videocard vendor website, they're always newer)
Or you're on Linux or something?
Not me sorry ,)
And yes , it use more memory with "gpu accel" on , you can easily verify that yourself nothing easier here.
And yes there is some "weird artifact" that some people get while having this feature on
and again you can easily verify that by yourself , using the search forum function
I am not here to debate with you about that, just want to know if stream does not work while this feature is set to off , nothing else sorry.
Unfortunately i can't verify using the search functiion if now steam need to have this feature to on for watching broadcast, i have to read all "annoncements" in beta as it worked on steam v1682708537 from april ....
BUT if the CPU can't keep up with decoding the stream and falls back too much — then i presume the broadcast would not work. And that would depend on the quality of the stream and how it's encoded.
Exact, disabling this function should not have any link to the possibilitly of watching a steam stream but atm , having "gpu accel" set to off , i/we can't watch steam stream when it was possible under the april steam release.
But
Version bêta de Steam: Version stable
Version de Steam: 1709846872
https://i.postimg.cc/Y9zb9h16/a1-Capture.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QCng95VT/a11-Capture.jpg
when with the april release everything is working fine using "gpu accel" off.
https://i.postimg.cc/K8gSwjw7/Capture.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/9M6N4vS2/111z-Capture.jpg
Version de Steam: 1682708537
And steam does not provide changelog anymore , you have to read all the changelog inside each post of the beta... damn lazy dev...
You should solve the underlying problem, you should not need to disable acceleration. Start with updating your videocard drivers from the vendor's website.
Not all things are guaranteed to work right in this configuration because it's not normal and inoptimal configuration. There may be good valid reasons for that, or maybe simply because it's unsupported anymore, no one spends much time to make beta feature (broadcasting) worth together with a setting which less than 1% of the user uses. Start by doing something yourself.
I dont need to disable gpu...
but doing so does stop you watching steam broadcasts...
and knowing this could of saved a lot of head scratching in my other post regarding
why broadcasts were not working.....
trying to use the least amount of ram and stop ram creep
from the steam client is the only reason i played with the setting.... but again...
i dont need too play with these things either.... my system does run well
and has enough resources not to really add any pressure to my system
with what i use it for....
Sorry but i do not use the last steam client ,i just run it sandboxed on my windows 7. It's another case for @ragefifty50 as he/she use the last steam release and w10+, not sur if it's w10 or w11 , sorry can't remember.
I am not agree with you about your first affirmation about support, just because there is no way that watching stream does not work when 'gpu accel' is been set to off, as there is nothing about the changelog of the steam client since april 2023 about that so it can be a bug.
It work under the april steam release with "gpu accel" to off and it's not unoptimal like you said as it use less memory when set to off and work is done by cpu not gpu.
Valve let you choose this trought an option when it would have been so better to always use 'gpu accel' on ? It's nonsens as valve make this option available and if i were following what you write, everything on the interface steam setup should be set to on in order of "beeing optimal' ;
but optimal for what ? your point of view i guess wich at first glance is not the same as valve who made the client and this option available to their users when it would have been so easy to hide this option and always use "gpu accel" to on.
https://i.postimg.cc/Y9zb9h16/a1-Capture.jpg
this is what happen with "gpu accel" set to off on last steam release if you are watching stream from here https://steamcommunity.com/?subsection=broadcasts
Then you're on your own.
Then write a ticket to Steam Support and quote their answer here. Good luck with that.
Simple: it's a setting for troubleshooting, if something works without it — means there's a problem with GPU acceleration that needs to be solved. It's not intended to be a permanent setting.
If there’s a problem — they may tell you to try disabling this setting to determine THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM which you don't want to solve. And Windows 7 is not supported anymore.
Heck, recently i had a game (Genshin Impact) which stopped launching at all on my older PC (with Win 11 and latest Steam), and guess why? Because my CPU does not support SSE 4 instructions!! In the next update the solved this, but only because there was a reasonable amount of players with that problem, but they're not gonna support such CPUs forever.
You on the other hand is on a completely outdated system, so everything you tinker with — is up to you to solve.
BTW Windows 11 after some point refuses updating on that second PC anymore, i guess the same reason — they don't support such old CPUs anymore. And i don't go around whining in their forums knowing that the problem is in my configuration, not their software.
Funny and sad on the same time ; personaly i do not use the last steam client so i do not care if it works or not under "gpu accel'" off as it works flawless on my client with this feature off.
I just wanted to find some people who can test that under their w10+ and write if it works or not so do not gaslight ...