Ah'm Un-Instawllin' Steeeem.

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Mrs Stigbob used to hate games until I bought her plants versus zombies.

My girlfriend like the Wii.

But she makes very little sense with things. She says "games are a waste of time" while binge watching endless shows in Netflix.

I probably should never mention the 1000~ hours I have logged in ED. Lol

 

[FoxTwo]

My girlfriend like the Wii.

But she makes very little sense with things. She says "games are a waste of time" while binge watching endless shows in Netflix.

I probably should never mention the 1000~ hours I have logged in ED. Lol

Well you're just keeping yourself occupied during the hours when she was binge-watching Netflix. You could have been out fooling around with other women, but you weren't...

 

[Lobey]

There are very few. One thing not to ignore is the speed of updates. Steam servers typically downloads major patches to my system at thirty to fifty times the rate of Frontier direct downloads when everyone and their dog are downloading them.

Steam also does this automatically and does not require you manually start the process. On my PC, Steam would be one of the last programs I would remove. 100MB of RAM use is nothing, but I do have 32GB currently.

Instead of killing processes run MSCONFIG and turn off the Apple stuff (and Google and others) from starting. Also, go into services tab and turn off any unneeded non-Microsoft tasks.

http://i.imgur.com/9IKEsZG.jpg

I'm not much fussed about Steam - but this is a very good example of the amount of terminate and stay resident crap I see all the time on pc's (I repair them for a living) - have nothing but AV and drivers load at startup - so kill any and all , Spotify, Skype, Office, Adobe (this especially), anything Apple, Java, Silverlight, Dropbox and of course Steam, Origin, Uplay etc etc
There is zero reason to have any of these services running on your pc - they should load only when you run that particular application and they should terminate when you close that application.

 

[Ralph Vargr]

I'm not much fussed about Steam - but this is a very good example of the amount of terminate and stay resident crap I see all the time on pc's (I repair them for a living) - have nothing but AV and drivers load at startup - so kill any and all , Spotify, Skype, Office, Adobe (this especially), anything Apple, Java, Silverlight, Dropbox and of course Steam, Origin, Uplay etc etc
There is zero reason to have any of these services running on your pc - they should load only when you run that particular application and they should terminate when you close that application.

Skype, Apple, and Adobe are all hogs.

 

[Stigbob]

Skype, Apple, and Adobe are all hogs.

If you use firefox, ditch adblock plus and use uBlock origin instead exactly the same effect but a lot more efficient.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I'm not much fussed about Steam - but this is a very good example of the amount of terminate and stay resident crap I see all the time on pc's (I repair them for a living) - have nothing but AV and drivers load at startup - so kill any and all , Spotify, Skype, Office, Adobe (this especially), anything Apple, Java, Silverlight, Dropbox and of course Steam, Origin, Uplay etc etc
There is zero reason to have any of these services running on your pc - they should load only when you run that particular application and they should terminate when you close that application.

A family member was complaining that her PC (that I built) was running really slowly compared to when I first set it up. (It's faster than mine normally, minus a decent GPU).

So I took a look.

4. Different. Antivirus Programs.
Four!
I asked her why she needed so many.
She said she was worried about security.

She still installs all the malware that she gets in emails.

Go figure. Lol

All my family are the same (except me), they all need banning from the internet. Lol

 

[FoxTwo]

If you use firefox, ditch adblock plus and use uBlock origin instead exactly the same effect but a lot more efficient.

Niiiice! Thanks man, never would have known about this if not for your comment

 

[A D]

Haven't noticed Steam hogging resources, and I do like SteamVR supersampling (over in-game SS) and async' re-projection for VR, but I do wish Steam would stop hounding me to double authenticate my account all the time.

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Well, over the weekend, I *have* noticed a performance improvement on my old, wheezy box.

Steam as a *store*, I have no objections to. Steam as a constantly running app, I'm not so enthused.

For those who love Steam, and see no performance issues for themselves, excellent. I'm now out of Steam on the subject.