▲ 446 ▼ Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com) submitted 4 days ago by slartibartfast141@piefed.zip to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 185 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (2 children) Who gives a shit even with a 5s difference permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Sustolic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 point 2 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sustolic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 point 2 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 point 2 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. permalink fedilink source parent