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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

on a per game basis? Last i checked you could only enable it for all games, or no games. I don't want to manually skip compilations, i want to select a list of games that automatically compile shaders, i don't want beamng to compile 70gb of shaders because it got an update this week, unless i'm going to play it, but something i play more frequently like factorio, i would like for that to be a regular function.

I'm fairly sure it's driver related, but steam is built on electron, and chrome/firefox work perfectly fine, and so does discord electron, so my only guess is that nvidia driver gaming is happening. Or steam has the single most incompetent installation of electron across any software i use.

I have no idea why only steam would be affected. That just doesn't make any sense.

Electron has gpu suppport by default so it shouldn’t be laggy.

doesn't seem to matter whether it's enabled or not, it performs like shit, idk why. Again, firefox and chrome are fine, discord is fine (it still runs like shit, but it's discord, that's normal)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

something i play more frequently like factorio, i would like for that to be a regular function.

That honestly sounds like a good feature to request imo.

Are you on the steam beta? I've generally had a better experience there.

You could also try the low performance setting in steam. (steam settings > library > low performance mode)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That honestly sounds like a good feature to request imo.

it would be a great feature, and considering i own like 10 games, and there are people out there who own like, 200, i'm honestly shocked this wasn't immediately included? I feel like this is such an obvious thing. i would be surprised if somebody hasn't already requested it.

Are you on the steam beta? I’ve generally had a better experience there.

no, i'm on stable, because i like my software to work, though maybe i should fuck around with my steam install sometime.

You could also try the low performance setting in steam. (steam settings > library > low performance mode)

i could, but im running a 1070 and a 5900x, im pretty sure it's not a hardware limitation. But i might mess with that later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

hopefully it improves. I'm honestly waiting for heroic to implement steam, or a decent CLI implementation to come about, SteamCMD does exist, but it's meant for server hosting, theoretically you could use it for client use, but i don't think it recommends you do that, for several reasons.