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Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management
10 Sep 2021 at 4:22 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BielFPsProbably the bottleneck cause is steam reading the games in your hd when it opens, so it takes more time to read them all before open the client itself.

Once you removed your hd, the client only read the games from ssd (which is way faster) then it doesn't have the bottleneck.
see edit above^^ It does not really seem to be a bottleneck but something must have been broken somewhere

Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management
10 Sep 2021 at 4:09 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: BielFPs
Quoting: Schattenspiegellibrarys on both but client on ssd
If you disconnect your hd, does it start faster?
Interesting: with SSD + HDD(raid0) ~ 1 minute
with SSD only ~ 12 seconds
to load the client.
Edit:
And for reasons unknown the loading time stays at 12 second after remounting the HDDs even after rebooting :woot:
Thank you very much! I would never have tried that.:smile:

Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management
10 Sep 2021 at 3:36 pm UTC

Quoting: BielFPs
Quoting: Schattenspiegel681,4kB
Seems normal then, are you using ssd or hd?
librarys on both but client on ssd

Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management
10 Sep 2021 at 3:07 pm UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: SchattenspiegelStill taking ages to start the client. Wish they would at least add a a banner or something to indicate the client is loading.
Still wonder why this is the case for some and for some others not...
Might be raw single core power. Whatever it does the first minute or so it only seems to utilize one core at a time.

Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management
10 Sep 2021 at 2:48 pm UTC

Quoting: BielFPs
Quoting: SchattenspiegelStill taking ages to start the client. Wish they would at least add a a banner or something to indicate the client is loading.
What's the size of your "localconfig.vdf" file inside "~/steam/userdata/youridnumber/config/" directory?
681,4kB

Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management
10 Sep 2021 at 11:07 am UTC Likes: 5

Still taking ages to start the client. Wish they would at least add a a banner or something to indicate the client is loading.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-6 is out now with lots of fixes and new game support
22 Aug 2021 at 8:22 pm UTC

Question: anyone else unable to start Witcher 3 with this one? Solved by deleting the old /compatdata/ . Starts smoothly now.

ScummVM continues keeping games alive with early Macromedia Director support
18 Aug 2021 at 12:27 pm UTC

Wish they would do a stable release once in a while.

Proton GE sees another new release pulling in lots of fixes
17 Aug 2021 at 4:07 pm UTC

Does anyone happen to know which was the last version of proton-GE that Endless Space 2 worked with? With the two latest ones I get a crash on starting it.

Unbound: Worlds Apart is a gorgeous platformer where you open portals between worlds
5 Aug 2021 at 3:36 pm UTC

Liked the demo quite a bit - will get snatched during the next purchase frenzy.