• zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It uses CEF not Electron,

    fine. i was simplifying. that wasn’t the main point of my comment. forgive me.

    which it has used for over 13 years. This isn’t something they just added.

    no…?

    you mean that the store has been an embedded browser? in that case yes

    but the whole steam client? has always been vgui, not electron cef. just because there is reference to chromium in the commit log doesn’t mean the whole thing’s built in chromium.

    If it’s running slow for you you probably have an issue with hardware acceleration.

    it’s not just me who has performance issues. at one point it was everyone on linux with an nvidia gpu. which is supposedly fixed (and it’s definitely better) but it’s still unusably slow. also, so what. my point was that i never had issues with vgui, and now i do.


    edit: ah, i’ve just looked through your comment history. i should never have engaged. sorry. i won’t engage any more.

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      1 year ago

      but the whole steam client? has always been vgui, not electron cef. just because there is reference to chromium in the commit log doesn’t mean the whole thing’s built in chromium.

      The “whole client” hasn’t been VGUI. Yes now every element is CEF but many, many pieces have been CEF for a very long time. “Switched over to Electron” implies it was entirely changed but it’s just using more of the thing it was already using. Those are two different things.

      it’s not just me who has performance issues. at one point it was everyone on linux with an nvidia gpu

      The issue you linked had nothing to do with Steam it was a bug with the Nvidia driver itself. Not sure what that’s supposed to prove.

      my point was that i never had issues with vgui, and now i do.

      And my point is that is not an inherent problem with Steam, that is something specific to your configuration. If it runs fine for other people it can run fine for you. I’m on Arch with an Nvidia GPU. I have zero issues with the performance.