Don't forget you gotta update your driver's too before even beginning "Launch Steam"
For most games, including ones on Steam this is what I do.
Being up program launcher with key combination.
Start typing name of game, hit enter.
Then if Steam is not open Steam launches,.
Game launches.
Get yourself a launcher program. Having to bring up Steam and search a library of dozens of games seems maddening when you could just type a few letters.
Minesweeper might be the only game I know that opens directly into play game. Everything else "then" still needed us to press play.
I used to have the irq of my sound blaster 16 memorised because you need to put it in for every game.
I love the fake "offline mode" of Steam which for certain game, doesn't work.
I knew it was already shitty 20years ago when Steam get popularized by this shitty game (Counter Strike),
People praise Steam, but it's one of the most bloated, unnecessarily convoluted examples of feature creep on my machine, and it always wants to run in the background and check for updates. Even when I do remember to exit properly, it takes several seconds of thinking before it closes. I've resorted to using task manager instead.
Almost any launcher is less annoying to me than Steam, but then I've never been one to use or want the various social aspects. I wish there were a lite version for people who just want to use it to buy and play games.
What other launchers do you use?
For me its like yeah steam has some annoyances, but overall it is pretty good and mostly works. Ubisoft and EA usually have more annoyances and/or straight up don't work.
EGS only takes a few seconds to launch, doesn't shove an annoying popup ad in my face every time I open it, and completely exits the application when I click X
I've actually bought the EGS version of several games just so I don't have to deal with Steam's bullshit
I've also got some indie games that don't use a launcher at all, and I use the Windows version of ESO so I don't need a separate launcher for that, which is my most-played game of all
Interesting, for me it is EGS that has all the bs haha
Its slow, ads all over, store is horrible
Steam is virtually unusable upon opening, looks like visiting a virus-ridden site without an adblocker, and it made me sign in again even though I've just used it recently. The only way to prevent having to sign in frequently is to leave it running in the background at all times, and that's not going to happen.
Yeah maybe its just works well for me. I set steam to load the library instead of the store and I never get these popups. Also I never have to sign in again. But steam is always open, since I use my desktop nearly exclusively for gaming at this point.
I wonder if a batch program wouldn't help you to bypass task manager too, mmmh
Yeah, steam is way too bloated for me. Usually it makes it impossible to do stuff at startup since the new UI version uses more resources
I've come to accept that it's going to update every time I launch it, which makes it a pita since I work long shifts and have very little time to play games to begin with.
i'm tired of software constantly needing to download fucking updates for every little fucking thing. you can't just use sEcUrIty as an excuse to make things 2000x more annoying
Gamers are the only people who complain when something is improved for them for free.
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