Eoghan_M Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I've heard the Steam version will generally be a bit slower than the disc version of the game? Any truth in this to any extent at all before I go and buy it off Steam instead of going to the shops. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillsMan Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I'm not sure of the logic behind that. I bought GTA IV from Steam and it's as fast as it was on the disk I'd previously owned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
msteuk Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Yeah about 10-20% slower iirc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantopsych Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Yeah about 10-20% slower iirc I have never noticed any reduction in performance- that's just a rumour. Don't worry, you'll get the same performance, you won't notice any difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoghan_M Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 I'm not sure of the logic behind that. I bought GTA IV from Steam and it's as fast as it was on the disk I'd previously owned. Would Steam being open not account for worse performance though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukaM Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I've heard the Steam version will generally be a bit slower than the disc version of the game? Any truth in this to any extent at all before I go and buy it off Steam instead of going to the shops. why on earth would it be slower? who makes up this kind of crap? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domoboy23 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Yeah about 10-20% slower iirc I've never experienced any problems :S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domoboy23 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Would Steam being open not account for worse performance though? Only if you were running windows 95, with about 256mb of RAM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillsMan Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Only if you were running windows 95, with about 256mb of RAM. What he said. Steam is a start up item for me, and according to my Task Manager it's using 5,408K of memory. In comparison Firefox is a whopping 190K, iTunes is 29K, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantopsych Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Only if you were running windows 95, with about 256mb of RAM. The ram it uses is negligible...I use steam quite a lot, been running empire totalwar since march this year, a power hungry game- steam uses about 11mb of ram something like that- it really is very small and you wouldn't notice any difference, using steam or from a disk. Plus, I ran fm09 without steam even running since last year...if you're that concerned, you can create a shortcut from the .exe located in the data files, via steam on your pc. But, you dont need to that, to reduce performance issues, I just prefer to do that. Really don't worry, if its more convenient for you, or whatever reason you have and want to buy from steam, go a head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoghan_M Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 Righto happy enough with that, cheers ears. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scab Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 It will not be slower. This misconception stems from the notion that Steam would hog enough system resources to affect your gaming performance which is simply not true. It's an amateur's assumption based on general knowledge that all currently running applications share system resources, meaning that background processes compete with your game for them. A lack of ability to determine which processes use how much of which resource, and a lack of perspective in terms of how big an impact a certain consumption of a particular resource has on other processes, results in general fear of any process that does anything whatsoever while your game is running. In short, Steam has such a small footprint that you would never notice a difference with it running or not; most performance benchmarks can't even do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Yeah about 10-20% slower iirc The above person seems to be taking people for a ride. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanBRFC Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Ive never noticed any performance drops from using steam. Its just people bashing steam at anything they can think of. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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