Steam

I've had a weird issue with Steam lately.

Whenever I go to download a game on my pc, it will download fine, but I will lose internet for everything else on my network until the download is complete or I stop the download.

At first I thought this might be an issue with my ISP, but this doesn't happen when downloading a game from my Steamdeck.

Anyone have any fixes for this?

Here is a speedtest if this helps at all: https://www.speedtest.net/result/15012239449

to use it, install Tampermonkey, or another userscript manager, and click here to open a prompt to install.

Repo: https://github.com/zulc22/collectionhelper/

I used to be able to use my joystick buttons on a lot of games but now steam won't detect them. Windows detects the buttons but steam won't. Is there any way around this?

I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them. Also sorry about repost for people who already saw this but I had to migrate to a different instance since I couldn’t create new posts with the previous one.

This post is from 2021-11-17.

Anyone have any experience playing over Steam Link on wifi?

It seems like no matter what I do, the performance is really shitty. Both the host and the client are in line of sight of the router, and I can get 500+ mbps and my latency seems good, but the performance is garbage. As soon as I go wired, I can get great performance at 100mbps or less.

Is there a good way to mitigate this? Am I doing something wrong?

My partner and I are sharing our libraries with each other on both the Steam Deck and our desktop PCs, but the list of actually borrowed games constitutes only a fraction of our complete libraries. I would expect all (non-F2P) games to show up under either borrowed or excluded.

From searching around, it seems to be a recurring problem for various people, and it either spontaneously fixes itself or after deauthorising and reauthorising (some reporting they had to clear Steam's cache - which is the only thing I haven't tried yet because that would be a massive inconvenience). But I'm not finding a lot of solutions or answers to what the deal is.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Edit: it looks as if the listed "borrowed" games are only those that have been actually played at some point, so it's possible the list isn't meant to be exhaustive. Doesn't explain the missing majority of games however.

Edit 2: I don't know if it was always the problem, but I just realised I had "show only ready to play games" selected, which obviously excludes all uninstalled games. I noticed because I tried downloading a game through the other account to see if that changed anything, and indeed it showed up. Mystery solved, hopefully.

(In a petty attempt at salvaging some dignity I want to add that I've had the problem of shared games not showing up before and I could swear this was not the problem...)

Has anyone else experienced the -silent launch option for Steam no longer working since the big client update? Hoping there might be a known fix/workaround out there.

This is from the Categories portion of the Steam home page. Flabergasted me and I had to snip it.

Do I just completely misunderstand what a Rogue-Like is?

Darksiders Genesis - QG6CQ-6LERH-AFJVK

Darksiders III - H7HBK-YZN9W-0IBBI

Aven Colony - MNMCM-6QYW6-9L9BQ

Main Assembly - M68KH-VPHFN-WHQN0

Popup Dungeon - 5YZHR-MWHMP-XKFBI

Ageless - 98HCM-VC32W-I2NCC

Outward - H63QL-JC004-RQN5Y

One Step from Eden - LA5PC-TEHDK-FYH6Z

Crying Suns - LBVRA-VK5VT-M9Q2E

I’ve tried resolving this with no luck. Anyone else having this error on the Steam store?

Anyone else have large drives that they have either all, or almost all of their games installed to, and find themselves spending more time making sure the blue pending update status of a game is gone, rather than actually playing a GD game?

edit adding context I have 4x 1.92TB Enterprise SSDs in a Raid 5 for ~4.7tb of usable space. I'm just about at max capacity with about 280 of 307 games installed. I got the SSDs from work.

The summer sale is well underway--what have you gotten that you're most excited about?

I know I'm late to the party, but for me it's Skyrim special edition. I played the base game when it came out on Xbox, but never since then. I'm looking forward to giving it a replay and all the new (to me) dlc.

Forgive the blatent self promotion, but a game I made with a friend is current on sale as part of the Steam Summer Sale (as is every other game ever made).It's hopefully a fun, novel and challenging platform game made using Godot.

Hi,

Like a lot of people I'm new to Lemmy and just wondered what people thought of promoting/advertising your own game on here. I like it here for its clean / focused content and understand if people are against it as it feels a little cheeky/cheap.

Is it just me or... Since the last update tester day on Arch Linux I haven't been able to start steam on Wayland and on Xorg i can start steam but not any game.

full list of patch notes:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3687931965598323436