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Valve To Overhaul for Steam GUI
We've all been accustomed to Valve's Steam layout (GUI) for many years now and little has changed. Well, that is about to change as over at GDC Valve has announced with is going to overhaul the GUI.
Not just the GUI (graphics user interface) though, also you are going to notice something called Steam Events. The game library is set to prioritize games that you play often, giving a featured slot to the game you most recently played. With new competition in the likes from EPIC store, and names like Uplay, Origin, GoG, Humble steam is losing market share and needs to step thing up.
Valve mentions that players can run their games quickly and efficiently. The library home page will also retrieve news and thus that events carousel dedicated to updates and events. Events will be of interest towards esports aficionados as there is an option for developers to enable live streams of events (like esports tournaments). Have a peek below and click the thumbnails to check and preview the new layout.
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#5653433 Posted on: 03/23/2019 03:30 PM
A revamp is sorely needed. I have about 4300~ games on Steam, and navigating the library turns Steam into an unresponsive "has stopped responding" for x amount of time mess until it catches up with itself. Moving the window between monitors makes it lock up for a good 5 seconds too.
I don't care if it's ugly as long as I can launch my games without getting mad at the launcher.
A revamp is sorely needed. I have about 4300~ games on Steam, and navigating the library turns Steam into an unresponsive "has stopped responding" for x amount of time mess until it catches up with itself. Moving the window between monitors makes it lock up for a good 5 seconds too.
I don't care if it's ugly as long as I can launch my games without getting mad at the launcher.
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#5653461 Posted on: 03/23/2019 05:54 PM
No sorry it really isn't you see Walmart would have at least a basic level of QC on the products it sells to people. It wouldn't let some random guy turn up stick a pile of dog turds on the shelf covered in baby vomit and then let them sell it for whatever they wanted as long as they gave Walmart a cut of the profits and IF by chance they did let something like that slip through and got customer feedback about it they would no doubt remove the product from sale and not feed some BS about censorship and community regulation of their products.
So yes while the GUI of Steam is slow, ugly and prone to any number of bugs it is way way the least of Valve's issues with the platform.
it's like a trip to Walmart; I can purchase weed killer on one side of the store, and purchase groceries on the other side - all under one climate controlled roof.
No sorry it really isn't you see Walmart would have at least a basic level of QC on the products it sells to people. It wouldn't let some random guy turn up stick a pile of dog turds on the shelf covered in baby vomit and then let them sell it for whatever they wanted as long as they gave Walmart a cut of the profits and IF by chance they did let something like that slip through and got customer feedback about it they would no doubt remove the product from sale and not feed some BS about censorship and community regulation of their products.
So yes while the GUI of Steam is slow, ugly and prone to any number of bugs it is way way the least of Valve's issues with the platform.
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#5653550 Posted on: 03/23/2019 11:27 PM
Have they got a defrag feature? Steam fragments sooooo easily, like the software is 16-bit and I'm using a floppy disk.
So, you think it's better to have nvidia geforce experience capturing all of your data, do you?
You think Epic is bad; geforce experience does things that Epic have wet dreams about.
GeForce Exp doesn't capture any of my data. I mean if you're a bit of a noob user, sure....but not if you're smart
A revamp is sorely needed. I have about 4300~ games on Steam, and navigating the library turns Steam into an unresponsive "has stopped responding" for x amount of time mess until it catches up with itself. Moving the window between monitors makes it lock up for a good 5 seconds too.
I don't care if it's ugly as long as I can launch my games without getting mad at the launcher.
Sounds like an issue with your PC/OS. I have never ever seen Steam not responding, ever. Nor have I ever seen it even get slow in any way AT ALL.
Mind you, I don't have a stupid 4300 games (which honestly, is ridiculous. Not even close to 10% of those would be decent games).
Regardless, the issue lies on your end. I've been using it for over 13yrs, own hundreds of games, know many friends who have hundreds more than me, and not one person has ever complained about Steam being slow. No issue moving it between monitors either. It's snappy. The fact you talk about it slowing down at all, surprises me. I've literally never had Steam lock up, slow down, become sluggish or anything remotely similar. It simply doesn't happen. Therefore I assume, since no one else complains of this issue, this is your problem, not steams.
Upgrade your PC, reinstall your os or I dunno.....figure it out. Maybe you're not using it correctly also. I mean if you're browsing your games using big picture or something...most of us just use small mode, ya know?
I couldn't care less, but who mentioned GFE, it's a separate thing from NVCP, not a replacement.
The point was like Steam, it also has a dated GUI that is very slow.
Ummm, do you have 4300 games too?
Sorry but I don't know why you guys are having issues with it being slow....it's simply not behaviour I've ever seen. It's always instant and snappy for me, no matter what. Very strange.
Have they got a defrag feature? Steam fragments sooooo easily, like the software is 16-bit and I'm using a floppy disk.
So, you think it's better to have nvidia geforce experience capturing all of your data, do you?
You think Epic is bad; geforce experience does things that Epic have wet dreams about.
GeForce Exp doesn't capture any of my data. I mean if you're a bit of a noob user, sure....but not if you're smart
A revamp is sorely needed. I have about 4300~ games on Steam, and navigating the library turns Steam into an unresponsive "has stopped responding" for x amount of time mess until it catches up with itself. Moving the window between monitors makes it lock up for a good 5 seconds too.
I don't care if it's ugly as long as I can launch my games without getting mad at the launcher.
Sounds like an issue with your PC/OS. I have never ever seen Steam not responding, ever. Nor have I ever seen it even get slow in any way AT ALL.
Mind you, I don't have a stupid 4300 games (which honestly, is ridiculous. Not even close to 10% of those would be decent games).
Regardless, the issue lies on your end. I've been using it for over 13yrs, own hundreds of games, know many friends who have hundreds more than me, and not one person has ever complained about Steam being slow. No issue moving it between monitors either. It's snappy. The fact you talk about it slowing down at all, surprises me. I've literally never had Steam lock up, slow down, become sluggish or anything remotely similar. It simply doesn't happen. Therefore I assume, since no one else complains of this issue, this is your problem, not steams.
Upgrade your PC, reinstall your os or I dunno.....figure it out. Maybe you're not using it correctly also. I mean if you're browsing your games using big picture or something...most of us just use small mode, ya know?
I couldn't care less, but who mentioned GFE, it's a separate thing from NVCP, not a replacement.
The point was like Steam, it also has a dated GUI that is very slow.
Ummm, do you have 4300 games too?
Sorry but I don't know why you guys are having issues with it being slow....it's simply not behaviour I've ever seen. It's always instant and snappy for me, no matter what. Very strange.
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#5653594 Posted on: 03/24/2019 06:24 AM
Ummm, do you have 4300 games too? :p Sorry but I don't know why you guys are having issues with it being slow....it's simply not behaviour I've ever seen. It's always instant and snappy for me, no matter what. Very strange.
I have 1600 games on steam and i can't even remotely agree with his statement. I get that 1600 is not 4300, but i can scroll through the entire list, in list view, detail view or grid view everything is absolutely responsive, no lag even a tiny little bit.
Now, i will say that grid view, the pictures of the games do not show up instantly, but the games themselves do. So, sure, that could be better.
Personally i only ever use list view as that's the only important view for me, nothing else is useful, everything else is pointless. This is my opinion, though.
So could that be different at 4300? Sure, maybe, but i'd be willing to bet it isn't.
Ummm, do you have 4300 games too? :p Sorry but I don't know why you guys are having issues with it being slow....it's simply not behaviour I've ever seen. It's always instant and snappy for me, no matter what. Very strange.
I have 1600 games on steam and i can't even remotely agree with his statement. I get that 1600 is not 4300, but i can scroll through the entire list, in list view, detail view or grid view everything is absolutely responsive, no lag even a tiny little bit.
Now, i will say that grid view, the pictures of the games do not show up instantly, but the games themselves do. So, sure, that could be better.
Personally i only ever use list view as that's the only important view for me, nothing else is useful, everything else is pointless. This is my opinion, though.
So could that be different at 4300? Sure, maybe, but i'd be willing to bet it isn't.
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Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version—whilst making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-bloat
Let's find something that is not bloatware in that screenshot. Hint: all the "library" should do in Steam is just a collection of games symbolic links
If all you want is a simple list just go to the View tab and select small mode, personally im fine with steam as it is...... 0.6% cpu usage when its open, i get automatic updates, easily find workshop items for my games like Ets2 and Ats.