DetCord12B Posted October 31, 2019 Posted October 31, 2019 Like who thought this was a good idea? The new UI is bulky, inefficient, bandwidth and CPU consuming and ultimately creates a more cluttered view. Pointless nonsense like "friends playing game X" Opening a popular game? Loads as much as a web browser, full of gifs, mods, news, ads, images, etc. And here's one thing web browsers are: inefficient and bloated compared to a purpose designed program. It's one thing if it's the steam store page, that doesn't need to be optimized much because you're there to browse potential purchases. When I want to a play a game, why do I need to be shown the most popular news stories about game XYZ? It's just another way to create more forced user engagements for product promotion, for people to buy and spend more at the cost of efficiency and logical UI design. Put simply, it's a net loss just like the friends/chat UI. Which now forces notifications to remain on screen and you can't click them away, can't be relocated to pop up in different areas, mic/audio/chat settings are fucked into a COMPLETELY SEPARATE SETTINGS MENU (Just like windows 10, which for even the modestly experienced user is an absolute clusterfuck of an inefficient bloated OS). Absolute garbage. It's much akin to the majority of mobile designs. Significantly less efficiently displayed information, and somehow straight up less efficient and consumes more resources in an attempt to prettify, causing more inefficiencies.
Rei-sen Posted October 31, 2019 Posted October 31, 2019 Wow, did it happen today? Is there a way to revert back to previous UI?
Sokol1 Posted October 31, 2019 Posted October 31, 2019 As the only thing interest me in Steam UI is the "small mode" showing game names, I start use this workaround: Right click the Steam shortcut and in the target box leave a space after what there and paste the following +open steam://open/minigameslist Other option: https://youtu.be/VpNE3lNAJHU
OrLoK Posted November 1, 2019 Posted November 1, 2019 I'll get used to it. I'm sure there'll be tweaks.
Jade_Monkey Posted November 4, 2019 Posted November 4, 2019 I like it, at least we are not time traveling to 1998. I don't see the issue with resources either. If you don't like all the noise just create a desktop shortcut? 1 1
69th_Mobile_BBQ Posted November 4, 2019 Posted November 4, 2019 I want the old mode back. This new one doesn't add anything except resource usage. At least I can change the library settings to run in 'potato' mode but, that doesn't fully cut back the ram usage to before new interface. ?
PaladinX Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 In times of 16 to 32 GB of DDR4 for your 4 to 6 core CPU, whats the point about RAM usage of the new steam user interface?
InProgress Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 People always complain when new things comes in. People cried when old steam was new but then everyone got used to it and now they cry because it got changed again I like new one, it's clear and you don't have to click bunch of stuff to get somewhere, it's all in your game page. It will get fixes sooner or later, just like every new thing has some problems. No reason to complain about it. I am pretty sure these things have to change to keep them going, staying in one place would be suicide for them.
Danziger Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 On 11/4/2019 at 2:08 PM, [_FLAPS_]Diggun said: I remember when all this was just fields... Orange groves as far as the eye could see...
unreasonable Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 It is crap and I would rather have the option to remove it. However, the list is still there on the left for finding and installing, etc. For games I plan to play I always use a desktop shortcut anyway.
LLv34_Flanker Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 S! Does not really bother me. I use desktop shortcuts anyway.
Yardstick Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 I can live with it but the one thing that irritates is the social feeds on the individual game pages. I have a number of, as yet unplayed, plot heavy games. I don’t want these ruined by a bunch of memes and story headers set out in those pointless social feeds.
PaladinX Posted November 7, 2019 Posted November 7, 2019 But everything is socially linked to something or someone these days! Didn't you realize that? ?
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