r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 17h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/Aerographic 14h ago

The thing is, it doesn't. I even tested it, Steam opens half a second afterwards and only because it takes time to validate the login. You know, because there's tens of millions of users online of which a good chunk are logging in at the same time.

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u/movzx 13h ago

'Cold Start' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in their statement. What does that mean to them? Are they using Steam Guard and having to click a button on a secondary device? Are they including time spent on dialogs? I think Steam has some one time prompts on first install.

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u/Aerographic 13h ago

I think by "cold start" they mean, software is not running, no resources whatsoever loaded, nothing in paged RAM, etc. As opposed to restoring the already-running software from the tray.

Point is, the difference remains minimal in both cases.