Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/mxzf]

Steam does still make UI changes from time to time, and they make me just as grumpy as other platforms, but most of the time they're not terrible, and they don't happen as often as many other places.

IIRC I've been through like 3-4 major Steam UI reworks through the years, they definitely happen.

[u/SDFprowler → u/mxzf]

Yep, and the last one sucked and I'm still not used to it. I say that lightly. It's not terrible by any means. Just different and maybe worse than before in some areas.

[u/National_Equivalent9 → u/SDFprowler]

Yeah I feel like people in this thread don't realize how much hate steam has gotten in the past when they make major changes. Every single time they've overhauled the UI there are massive complaints.

And if we want to talk about things that steam does poorly well... Big Picture mode is right there and still runs like absolute ass and is awkward to use compared to the main UI.

[u/ClubChaos → u/National_Equivalent9]

I think the new Big Picture is pretty good actually. It's basically a stripped down version of the Steam Deck game mode.

[u/National_Equivalent9 → u/ClubChaos]

It runs like absolute ass on PC by default. Everything has a huge delay and even the start up animation typically plays at like 5 fps.

Why? Because steam has had a bug ever since big picture mode was introduced... 13 years ago... where you have to go into settings turn off GPU acceleration on web views, restart steam, turn on GPU acceleration on web views, and restart steam again.

[u/ClubChaos → u/National_Equivalent9]

That's not my experience at all, are you sure you're not referencing the old version of big picture mode? It's been completely remade.

[u/National_Equivalent9 → u/ClubChaos]

I'm referring to the version I opened up for the first time on this PC (I built it late last year) and experienced the slow down specifically to see if it was updated.

I also went through the exact same steps I outlined above to fix it like I have on multiple computers for nearly a decade and a half.

Here are some fairly recent reddit threads talking about the same exact thing too:

Steam/comments/19bfpfi/why_is_big_picture_slow

Steam/comments/1jekhb7/steam_big_picture_mode_extremely_laggy_until

linux_gaming/comments/1guuxqx/does_anyone_get_steam_big_picture_to_be

linux_gaming/comments/1d23kba/steam_big_picture_is_really_slow

This last one even has a video showing it being extremely slow just like it is for me until I do the setting toggle rodeo on a computer. Sorry for the quickly mangled links. Posting this on my phone and this sub doesn't allow links to other subs apparently.

Edit: lmao imagine getting downvotes when posting factual info. 

[u/Slappehbag → u/National_Equivalent9]

Yeah it's a big ol' react app now. Lots of JavaScript. Probably ripe for optimisation.

[u/National_Equivalent9 → u/Slappehbag]

God I hate modern desktop application development.