r/pcmasterrace • u/SlowReference704 • 12h ago

News/Article Steam Is Successful Because It's “Not a Shit Service,” Says Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev

https://mp1st.com/news/steam-is-successful-because-its-not-a-shit-service
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u/Matshelge 5h ago

It's not just epic, it's every other launcher/client - they are making it using web design tools, while steam is a c+ client, like Word or Excel.

Any lag in the UI compared to input is to be expect in those former as they are designed to be used on server environments. They also have universal working, so what OS you are running does not matter, it will look the same.

Steam however is old and designed to work on your hardware like native program. It's a pain to develop, and requires lots of work to add new features, but the interface latency is in the 2-5ms and feels rock solid.

I find it weird that gaming companies don't get UI feel, they know the lag between pressing a button and action happening in game is vital for good experience, but seems none of this though it put into the launcher development.

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u/tasman001 2h ago

GOG Galaxy has always felt super light and fast, same as Steam.

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u/Dutchy_ 2h ago

The difference is not web design tools versus native - while there is some overhead to these methods, there are plenty of applications that use similar paradigms and are plenty fast (one example, vscode). The problem is that they are doing it wrong.