Launching a game means that the entire Steam Window fades and it will become entirely unusable until the game starts. That is not a separate startup window, thats just an embedded element inside the main one. If you accidentally click outside, the game startup gets canceled.

It is a bit more than mildly frustrating when Im waiting on the Vulkan shaders for BFV for like half an hour to process.

  • Wyrryel@pawb.socialEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    Have you checked “Process vulkan shaders in the background” under settings -> download? That way it does that in the background when you’re not playing

      • Wyrryel@pawb.socialEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, but I don’t know if it should be turned on by default. Shader processing takes a lot of CPU resources, even on a high-end one I notice some small stutters in general desktop usage while it processes. Lower grade CPUs could be pretty unusable, I think.

        • andrewAEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          I have a 5950x. At least on Linux I had to turn it off because it would peg my CPU at 100% all cores and the stutter was ridiculous. Heaven forbid I be writing code at the time.

          • Wyrryel@pawb.socialEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            Yeah, I gad a lot of problems with it on NixOS.l, to the point of kde becoming unresponsive during shader processing. I had a much better experience once I installed cfs zen tweaks which iptimizes the ketnel a bit for desktop usage.