Oh yeah. If you leave a steam page open, it’ll create a very slow memory leak. Left store page open for about a week, came back to 6gb steamwebhelper xd
In my case, i use multiple workspaces. Had a workspace for gaming set up and left the window on the store page. Had a busy week so I didn’t game. I usually don’t turn off my computer because I contribute to Folding@Home at night. Week flies by and I start to wonder why my ram is full and investigate :D
memory leak’s at a rate that doesn’t matter (~30mb/hour). That makes it hard to track down & reproduce. Also, solution would be to just navigate to your steam library or just not leave the window open like that :p
i haven’t because it’s been a completely unusable buggy mess ever since i’ve installed it, and it transitioned to electron, routinely uses 1gb of ram, 2gb on bad days. That’s 2 whole USD wasted, and that’s the price of CHEAP ram.
Graphics just don’t work, that might be an nvidia problem to be fair, menus are broken, buttons haven’t worked, refactoring the UI seems to make it slower. Scrolling a literal single web page is practically unusable due to lag and stuttering. If you use proton, and auto shader compilation, it’s useless because you can’t even configure how you want it to be run. Don’t want to compile 12gb of shaders for a game that’s 200GB? That you play 2 times a year? Get fucked.
It’s a bit old, it’s a Ryzen 3500U (laptop from 2017/2018 ish), so at the older end of your range. I’m still maxing my internet speed, it just kicks the fan on.
I haven’t checked my desktop (Ryzen 5600) because I don’t hear the fan when the CPU gets pegged (never thought to check), but maybe I will the next time I download a game.
that’s definitely not in the range of like, super old cpus, but it’s also not super fast either. Modern cpus should be like 20-30% faster i think, in single core, which is what compression uses.
Realistically compression should be as aggressive as possible, because it saves bandwidth, and it’s basically a free resource,
I was hoping there would be something about resource usage. Curse you, steamwebhelper
Oh yeah. If you leave a steam page open, it’ll create a very slow memory leak. Left store page open for about a week, came back to 6gb steamwebhelper xd
Wait really?! Feel like that’s a bug that really needs addressing
what kind of sane person is gonna leave a steam page open for over a week, though?
I can see it easily being accidentally left open if you have a busy desktop and don’t regularly restart your PC
In my case, i use multiple workspaces. Had a workspace for gaming set up and left the window on the store page. Had a busy week so I didn’t game. I usually don’t turn off my computer because I contribute to Folding@Home at night. Week flies by and I start to wonder why my ram is full and investigate :D
I mean… I often open steam for something and then kind of forget about it.
What kind of sane person is gonna debug and track down a memory leak, though? Just buy more ram
What kind of sane person is going to buy more RAM? Just download it
Just mount your swap partition on google drive. xd
people who like having money???
memory leak’s at a rate that doesn’t matter (~30mb/hour). That makes it hard to track down & reproduce. Also, solution would be to just navigate to your steam library or just not leave the window open like that :p
no it doesnt?
It’s a web browser, it’s only going to come from one place lmao.
The Web.
yeah, and the answer is electron, it’s electron causing the memory leak, the solution is to not use it.
I completely forgot Steam used electron.
i haven’t because it’s been a completely unusable buggy mess ever since i’ve installed it, and it transitioned to electron, routinely uses 1gb of ram, 2gb on bad days. That’s 2 whole USD wasted, and that’s the price of CHEAP ram.
Graphics just don’t work, that might be an nvidia problem to be fair, menus are broken, buttons haven’t worked, refactoring the UI seems to make it slower. Scrolling a literal single web page is practically unusable due to lag and stuttering. If you use proton, and auto shader compilation, it’s useless because you can’t even configure how you want it to be run. Don’t want to compile 12gb of shaders for a game that’s 200GB? That you play 2 times a year? Get fucked.
Also not a fan of downloads eating a core.
Isn’t that just because they download a compressed format?
Encrypted and compressed. But it’s way beyond what I expect that to take.
it depends on your network speed also.
My internet isn’t that fast (100mbps), and it was still maxing one core.
how old/new is your cpu? CPUs recently, in the last 5-8 years have gotten really fast.
It’s a bit old, it’s a Ryzen 3500U (laptop from 2017/2018 ish), so at the older end of your range. I’m still maxing my internet speed, it just kicks the fan on.
I haven’t checked my desktop (Ryzen 5600) because I don’t hear the fan when the CPU gets pegged (never thought to check), but maybe I will the next time I download a game.
that’s definitely not in the range of like, super old cpus, but it’s also not super fast either. Modern cpus should be like 20-30% faster i think, in single core, which is what compression uses.
Realistically compression should be as aggressive as possible, because it saves bandwidth, and it’s basically a free resource,