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Anyway,
In my system, steam takes quite a bit of system resources (cpu memory, gpu memory, sometimes cpu cycles).
Things are no way better since the introduction of the new library system since it seems everything now is done via the embedded browser, but I don't want to dig into how inefficient this could be.
Since my system specs are not stellar (only 3GB of video ram), i have to shut down the whole steam client when starting games which doesn't run from Steam.
(and for the games I start with the steam client, I just kill steamwebhelper processes; it somehow helps a bit, but this is not relevant now).
Question is in the topic, if I shut down the client, when I need to start it again, it takes something like a bunch of seconds (more than 10), even on an SSD. Of course i can live with that, but since my whole system starts in about the same time, i ask myself if there is some magic/hidden/locked switch i can use to make the client to start faster.
Thanks!
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I'm waiting for the day you will need a browser based application to do 1+1=2.
Just wait and see :)
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Count yourself lucky you have an SSD. I'm still on spinning rust, and Steam takes the best part of a minute to start. I'll have to try that -noverifyfiles switch.