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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/710037059469839721

The actual update post from Valve. Why is it not linked in the article? The notes are huge, with many things improved. Off course one of the improvements would probably lead to better loading times. This isn't a response to Epic Games, this is a main update developed way before.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Avoid stealing focus when the Steam main window opens, if another window was activated during startup/login.

Holy hell finally. This has annoyed me for so damn long.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

This annoys me too, not only with Steam. But I thought this is an issue on my operating system. I wasn't aware this could be solved by the client side.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

please understand, they're a starving indie company

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, that makes it even better to me. Here’s Epic bragging about beating Steam in some way meanwhile Valve’s like “here’s a little something we’ve been working on for a while. No biggy.”

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Steam stays winning