▲ 50 ▼ Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam (arstechnica.com) submitted 3 weeks ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (9 children) Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow? permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago Nope. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) I love steam but I have to admit it's rather slow both on Windows and Linux. Isn't steam kind of web based and so always a bit slow because of that ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago I guess I can't really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that's usually only first time launches or after some updates. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago Steam is significantly slower to open that Heroic or Lutris. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago Sometimes big picture but I only use it for like 10 seconds then launch my game. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago Not for me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago On my old pc it take about 30 second from PC finished booting to launching Steam in Big Picture, not sure what happened because on my new PC it just launched within second. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago Wish it was faster sure. permalink fedilink source parent [–] esc@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago I do, but there is an issue with lauchers in general. Not just steam. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) I love steam but I have to admit it's rather slow both on Windows and Linux. Isn't steam kind of web based and so always a bit slow because of that ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago I guess I can't really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that's usually only first time launches or after some updates. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago I guess I can't really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that's usually only first time launches or after some updates. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago Steam is significantly slower to open that Heroic or Lutris. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago Sometimes big picture but I only use it for like 10 seconds then launch my game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago On my old pc it take about 30 second from PC finished booting to launching Steam in Big Picture, not sure what happened because on my new PC it just launched within second. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago Wish it was faster sure. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] esc@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago I do, but there is an issue with lauchers in general. Not just steam. permalink fedilink source parent