Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

  • Communist
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    24 days ago

    Who gives a shit even with a 5s difference

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      24 days ago

      At least on arch and on my hardware it is the difference of ~2s and ~8s, launching 4x as fast is substantial.

      Still not using it over heroic tho.

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        23 days ago

        I’d get it if it were minutes but i’m just gonna say 8s is hardly long enough to even think about the fact that it’s taking 8s.