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Steam will no longer pop up at every startup if you use the latest beta (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 30 points 7 months ago

Now can we get steam not opening when we launch a game?

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

steam is not a drm-free platform like GOG or Epic Games (some epic games games have additional drm, but most are completely drm-free and there's no client-level drm at all like in steam*).
Most games use the Steam API to check stuff, so Steam client needs to be running.
(I'm actually kinda ok with steam's drm btw, it's not as intrusive as on some other stuff)

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 19 points 7 months ago

I’m fine with the DRM. But why does the window need to open and take several seconds to “connect to the friends network” for a singleplayer game? This doesn’t need to be a blocking process.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

There's a setting somewhere to disable the friends list.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Would staying offline on the friends network help that issue?

[-] mihnt@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It doesn't.

[-] BleakBluets@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Or the window popping up when you exit steam from the system tray just to show you "steam stutting down" and a spinning icon for 5 seconds.

[-] MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yes if you go to 20 years ago

[-] nix@merv.news 1 points 7 months ago

Isnt this possible? I do it with blender. Just right click the icon of the game and pin it to your taskbar then click it when you wanna launch the game