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The newer Library (and Friends UI) are a bit heavier on your PC, as a lot of people noticed. However, you can enable GPU acceleration to make everything quite a bit smoother. That came at a cost though, as there was an unfurtunate memory leak and it sucked away performance from gaming. Valve have made attempts to address these issues in the new Beta update out.
Now the Library should be prevented from doing stuff on the GPU when the Library window is covered up, a memory leak was fixed if GPU Acceleration was turned on, some Library animations don't run if the Steam window doesn't have focus, the Library failing to load if you have a lot of non-Steam games was fixed and they also adjusted the GPU Acceleration to default on for Linux and Mac.
However, there's still a few issues they need to solve. For me, updating to this version with GPU Acceleration turned on caused my Library to not even load at all. Steam just became unresponsive when I tried. Going onto the Store worked, Collections sort of worked but the Library Home wouldn't load. Reloading Steam again seemed to fix it though. Twitchy, but okay now? Seems someone else reported a bug on that.
Another issue I've seen, is that when I ALT+TAB with a traditional full-screen game running I can no longer seem to interact with the Library—that's a bit of a woops from Valve. I've reported this one.
Just for Linux, they also updated the Steam Runtime. It now disables the obsolete SSLv3 in libcurl which should fix a problem with libcurl on Arch Linux. They also disabled LDAP in libcurl and updated SDL 2.
Release notes can be found here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: chancho_zombieyeah I stopped using the beta because the library gets unresponsive, the issue is still there? when clicking the library the mouse cursor gets stuck at the pointy hand and I have to restart steam to get it working again.
Never happened to me. I'm on beta since day 1. But memory leak was also visible on my end.
Seems to be consistent between Nvidia and AMD too, since me and Liam are on Nvidia, and I see that chancho_zombie is on AMD.
I might try turning off the GPU acceleration next, although I'm not about for the next few days.
2fastHunter Oct 1, 2019
Last edited by Ardje on 1 October 2019 at 5:05 pm UTC
The only thing I'm missing right now, and I haven't spent long hunting, is a way to show what games are taking up the most space on my disk. I have to periodically do that to remove the big-hitters. Even with a terabyte disk, I have to some house-cleaning occasionally and it was pretty straightforward on the old design.
It also doesn't seem to be amazingly obvious when a game is using Steam Play (or am I missing something here)? No big deal though really.
So yeah, huge improvement in my books.
Quoting: chancho_zombieThe problem is still there the library gets stuck and unresponsive with the pointy hand cursor.
I hadn't seen this before, but ironically just after reading this it happened to me.
Quoting: scaineI'm missing right now, and I haven't spent long hunting, is a way to show what games are taking up the most space on my disk.
On the Home screen, where it has the list of "ALL GAMES" one of the sorting options is "Size on Disk"
Quoting: scaineIt also doesn't seem to be amazingly obvious when a game is using Steam Play
That's the biggest missing feature from the new design, which I've been complaining about since the "leaked" preview.
2fastHunter Oct 2, 2019
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