june gloom on 24/2/2010 at 23:58
And yet you've always been able to set what tab you want Steam to be on when it first loads, so there goes that point!
Yakoob on 25/2/2010 at 00:00
Personally, I hate it. Why is the steam window now taking half my screen? The game list, used to be compact and easy to navigate, now it's huge as hell. I know what games I bought I dont need giant images to represent them thank you.
Also to those saying thank god they dropped IE... is it just me or is the browser running considerably slower now?
EDIT: JESUS it's eating
181 MB of ram with the window closed O_O
EDIT2: So you can actually kill the huge images by right clicking on the top column labels and checking them off. But I miss the old icons - they let you quickly locate your games without taking too much space.
Quote Posted by mothra
social spy platform
Hahahha, cute.
catbarf on 25/2/2010 at 03:45
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Anyone who thinks this update is designed to actually improve Steam for the end user is delusional.
I see numerous improvements to the UI, web browser, and new features that completely and utterly invalidate your point. Whether or not Valve will make more money from the new UI is completely beside the point. This is, bugs aside, an improvement for the customer.
Jason Moyer on 25/2/2010 at 04:10
At least on my system, it uses about twice as much RAM, although that isn't a big deal. The content seems to take a moment to render in the browser, but the overall UI is much snappier and the new layout seems pretty slick. The "what games your friends own" list being in a useful place is pretty nice.
I wish they'd get around to adding a maximize button like every other windowed application has, but other than that it doesn't seem too bad.
mothra on 25/2/2010 at 08:54
new steam takes up 31mb of ram on my win7 x64 machine. I made it a habit to NEVER open the program, just let it run in the background and use the excellent win7 search to start games. webkit is about 200% quicker than IE as well. still a fail update that does not adress many of the issues with steam.
june gloom on 25/2/2010 at 08:57
Which are?
gunsmoke on 25/2/2010 at 11:26
Quote Posted by mothra
new steam takes up 31mb of ram on my win7 x64 machine.
Mine uses 17-18 on Vista. Always been rather efficient (Steam).
EvaUnit02 on 25/2/2010 at 18:04
I've been reading that they've removed the option of selecting the content server region. I find this unacceptable, it's an essential feature for those of us living in Australia and NZ. Most people in Australasia have data caps and some ISPs run Steam content servers that don't count towards your quota. What are we supposed to do now that we can't manually select them? Goddammit.
Quote Posted by mothra
new steam takes up 31mb of ram on my win7 x64 machine. I made it a habit to NEVER open the program, just let it run in the background and use the excellent win7 search to start games. webkit is about 200% quicker than IE as well. still a fail update that does not adress many of the issues with steam.
Ya know, you can run Steam games without opening the client. Just copy over Steam.dll to the location of game's EXE and then run that.
ZylonBane on 25/2/2010 at 18:34
Quote Posted by dethtoll
And yet you've always been able to set what tab you want Steam to be on when it first loads, so there goes that point!
Ahh, opt-out shilling at its finest.
june gloom on 25/2/2010 at 18:50
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Ya know, you can run Steam games without opening the client. Just copy over Steam.dll to the location of game's EXE and then run that.
Seriously? I did not know that. I may have to give that a try.
