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Steam client store is really really slow for me for several months now.

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gbaz69

For the last several months, the steam client has been extrememly slow for me.

Allways for the steamstore pages.
Rarely for any of the community pages (cept my activity page, that seems really slow, probably endless scrolling).
And never for my library tab/view.

Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know of a solution to this?

Does the steam client makes calls to other software to render the pages? (like using internet explorer or something), that I need to tweek/disable/enable to make it work faster.

Steam is using less then 1% of my cpu usage, and a tiny fraction of my memory.

Hell, in general, most internet web pages for me have been slow, probably the awful html5/domstorage integration.

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KUKRER

steam client is dated garbage and it's getting worse. Gaben should fix, clean and revise it, but that won't boost his sales so doesn't care.

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aRo93

Settings - Web Browser - clear cache -> may help

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jiggakills

Opt in/out of the Steam beta and restart the client. Worked for me when I was having a similar issue a while ago.

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gbaz69

I don't ever recall signing up for steam beta, know the actual steps to do this?
If not I'll just google.

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BloodyRo

Steam (top left) > Settings > Account > Beta participation (middle of the page)

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gbaz69

and it is unticked, so i didn't need to do anything
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jiggakills

No, if you're not in the beta you enable that and restart. It clears something in your Steam installation that nothing else I tried at the time seems to clear. Afterwords you can turn it back off again if you want.

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Skiah

Also this isn't specific to your problem but while you're in settings, it might not be a bad idea to go to downloads - clear download cache, and do that as well. The web browser and download caches both cause a huge slowdown of the client in general for me if I don't clear them fairly regularly.

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Saikania

That's exactly what I wanna say, I've had the same problem some month ago and clearing the cache worked for me.

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gbaz69

Doing this caused my steam client to close and when I re-launched it, I had to login (I've always never had to type in my password for a while since i ticked 'rembmer me/password'.

Maybe it only happen just htis one.

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Skiah

I forgot to mention that, its perfectly normal so no need to worry. It warns me that I'll have to relog when I go to clear and I have to confirm, instead of the client just doing it. I'm not using the beta though so maybe that's the difference.

Hope you find a fix soon, steam slowing to a crawl and/or freezing up is so frustrating. Maybe one day steam will actually improve the client lmao an empty dream but we can hope.

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Skiah

Ooh thanks. I went in with an open mind and what I got back was mostly "we're gonna throw even more things you've never cared about at you, and at in increased volume!" Since I don't have any interest in multiplayer/social/curator based stuff or knowing what my friends are always doing. It was mostly meh announcements. It really felt like triple attack advertising solely done to increase game sales (steam itself/curators/peer pressure) but I get it, being a Unity conference. For some reason though it was still interesting enough for me to watch the whole video.

I also understand that because of the place this presentation was done, the features I really do care about weren't the focus. One thing that really grabbed my attention though was the presence of a slide about client improvements and redesign but it was flipped through immediately and not talked about at all (also because of the venue no doubt) but its enough to know its there. I just hope... they don't make it worse, lol. I can see it happening but I truly hope for the best. 8)

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Loket

No shit, Sherlock. Sorry, had to say it when I saw your avatar.
It is a bit laggy/choppy for me too now and again, mainly when I use the client to check the store.

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HAKIMODO

Try to use browser. It's always be faster than main client.
I use this for years...

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Stefanig

The client has been freezing on me for the longest time now. I pretty much just use the browser unless I need the client.

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gbaz69

Well none of the minor fixes seem to be working, guess next thing I can try is uninstall/reinstall, blah.

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