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While I agree with Iznuts and Azfalt. It did consume my CPU. Also causing it to burn in masses of heat due to the new look that Steam has gave us for our library. I really didn't like the look of it and it does crash some of the games i do play every 5-10 second before with 1 second after crash.

I'm glad I stopped purchasing games on Steam. Might as well delete it because of the rude customer services they have.
Post edited November 04, 2019 by Intentionator
I see a lot of people talking about resource usage of the new Steam UI, by default it is pretty bad. But there is a "Low Bandwidth Mode" and a "Low Performance Mode" you can enable in Settings -> Library which really cuts it back.

When these settings are enabled on my system, Steam uses less than 50% of what Galaxy 2.0 consumes without any integrations enabled.
For me it's actually the other way around. The old Steam Ui was one of the Main-Reason (besides having all Games at one place) why i moved on from Steam to GoG Galaxy 2.0. I'm one of these Guys which grew up before this Digital Era happened and "Retail" / "Physical" Games where part of my Childhood. I loved to put them into my Shelves and made my proud to have my Games-Collection "represented" well. Now in this Digital Age, it's hard to keep up such an IRL Collection, yet again it's also somewhat helpfull because your room isn't stuffed with so many Game. Even so i really love to have them represented well virtually, and thats where Steam 've gotten wonky for me, because for me Steam looked dated and somewhat ugly. This new Steam is absolute beautiful, and surprisingly it's not only the looks, but i also love the Features. To set-up dynamic collection feels so much easier and more convinient than the classic way of setting up your own categories. Everyone which have more than 500 Games on steam know how frustrating and uneccessary takes up your Time, and if you want to re-categorize later, it's the absolute Hell. I also love the new Game-Hubs and the new Main-Page - yeah even the "what's new" is kinda cool.

The only real "issue" which i had so far was performance-wise,. Than again the tipp above helped(Thanks @MikeMaximus) and even without this settings, i couldn't claim / say that GoG Galaxy 2.0 was in this regard better. It also eats an insane amount of Ressources... and i've to deal with different problem as well. Like linked Plugins / Plattforms. Everytime i start up GoG Galaxy 2, i nead to login / re-link majority of my plattform again, and that's absolute frustrating and time-consuming. They wanted to deliever a tool (which idea in general i love) where you can have a easy access to games you own on different plattforms... but when i need to login everytime i start up this tool to these plattforms, than it's easier to simply boot up the different tools instead.

I don't want to crap on GoG Galaxy 2.0 either, and i still have high hopes. But anyone who b*** about Steam's new UI and than hype GoG Galaxy 2.0 should rather be silent, because for now the New Steam UI does a way better job than GoG Galaxy 2.0 as for now.
Post edited November 08, 2019 by LightningYu
Another one here waiting for Galaxy 2 as a good option to leave steam and it's BS. Thing is I don't think it would be healthy for GOG to release G2 to the public if it's not ready. It could end up having the wrong outcome.

I am hoping that G2 is going to be the solution for all those that have had enough of steam. It couldn't have come at a better time.
Post edited November 08, 2019 by DazBoots
Speaking as someone who was in the closed betas for both the Steam library, gog galaxy 2.0 changes, I'm just gonna be blunt here: Everyone hated the Steam library UI change, and we reported many of the issues for months before the public release ever occurred. Pretty much every reported bug is still in effect.

Gog Galaxy 2.0 isn't perfect but it's got a substantial advantage over steam. Namely, it works. Steam doesn't.
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Doomjedi: Speaking as someone who was in the closed betas for both the Steam library, gog galaxy 2.0 changes, I'm just gonna be blunt here: Everyone hated the Steam library UI change, and we reported many of the issues for months before the public release ever occurred. Pretty much every reported bug is still in effect.

Gog Galaxy 2.0 isn't perfect but it's got a substantial advantage over steam. Namely, it works. Steam doesn't.
Thanks for confirming that I am on the right track. I am converted to GOG. GOG make their mistakes but at least they try to give the customer what they want and not treat them as fodder for the pot. Over the years I have watched Steam slowly turn into the monster it is today. It really needs to be brought down a few hundred rungs.
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Waytelem: People have been asking for the ability to create playlists/collections, the information panels you get for each game, etc., for years, and the only major negative (if you can even call it that) feedback that they got was some UI stuff that some people want to be able to change, like the ability to disable the "what's new" section and stuff like that.

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there will always be people that don't like change, there were a couple of those during the beta as well but nothing major.

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My best advice to you, get to know the new UI and the functions,

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Also, anyone that just leaves a platform as soon as a change they don't like or agree with is made wouldn't exactly be a reliable or useful beta tester.
I'll address those points because they're problematic:
1/ There's no reason to link features to appearance. You can add new features to an old UI or change an UI without adding features. Keeping a list mode or a small mode doesn't preclude adding features or another mode.

2/ Not liking having my Steam library changed to a smartphone screen has nothing to do with not liking change. That's why I didn't use Windows 8 (note that Microsoft backtracked quite a bit on that with 8.1 and 10), and that's why I've been consistently using Galaxy 2 since the release of the new Steam library update.
There's a density of information in list mode that can't be matched when 80% of the screen is full of pictures. Losing that density of information is a problem. Denying their customers the choice is a problem.

3/ I've poked and prodded the new UI. The new features are good, the new Grid Mode in itself is trash. Criticism of the latter isn't rejection of the former. I make informed choices, Steam decided to remove that choice from me.

4/ Steam isn't a beta test. The new UI is now part of the commercial release of the Steam client. People leaving are not unreliable beta testers, but customers making a choice. Do not take one for the other.
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Doomjedi: Speaking as someone who was in the closed betas for both the Steam library, gog galaxy 2.0 changes, I'm just gonna be blunt here: Everyone hated the Steam library UI change, and we reported many of the issues for months before the public release ever occurred. Pretty much every reported bug is still in effect.

Gog Galaxy 2.0 isn't perfect but it's got a substantial advantage over steam. Namely, it works. Steam doesn't.
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DazBoots: Thanks for confirming that I am on the right track. I am converted to GOG. GOG make their mistakes but at least they try to give the customer what they want and not treat them as fodder for the pot. Over the years I have watched Steam slowly turn into the monster it is today. It really needs to be brought down a few hundred rungs.
Everyone?

I quite like the new interface.
I can sort my installed game, based on recently played and now I actually get a month or week on how far back I played the game.
I can make filtered "shelves", for example I've made "Play with Friends" which only lists games that have the coop or local-multiplayer flags. It's awesome.

Compared to the "Recent" View in GOG 2.0 which shows 2 games from me and 4 games from my friends and then ALOT of useless statistics for recently added games...
Unfortunately for some of us, that entire "the steam client no longer does anything but crash thing is kind of an issue. You know, because it prevents all functionality relating to game play, game purchase, game installation, informing steam support of the issues only to be ignored, ect.


You know. Very important, basic required functions of a game client.
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Doomjedi: Unfortunately for some of us, that entire "the steam client no longer does anything but crash thing is kind of an issue. You know, because it prevents all functionality relating to game play, game purchase, game installation, informing steam support of the issues only to be ignored, ect.

You know. Very important, basic required functions of a game client.
Yep, I have seen the reports from people not even able to play the games they own. All they had to do was give people the option of old basic UI and this horrible new thing. And it would have been so easy to do, that easy people are doing it for themselves in 30 seconds.
If there was never blinding evidence that steam doesn't care for it's users, there is now.
After 15 years I have quit buying from steam and I can't see this ever changing.
Post edited November 14, 2019 by DazBoots
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Doomjedi: Unfortunately for some of us, that entire "the steam client no longer does anything but crash thing is kind of an issue. You know, because it prevents all functionality relating to game play, game purchase, game installation, informing steam support of the issues only to be ignored, ect.

You know. Very important, basic required functions of a game client.
Does it crash on another computer with your login?
Does it crash on another (newer) OS with your login?

Have you considered that it's your computer at fault?
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Waytelem: I guess that you're talking about the now publicly released updated library UI?
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DerBesserwisser: While I have no clue about the dispute itselt. Hasn't the op a point though: while its probably not a very significant amount of users that are complaining, it may stiil be a chance to get a bunch of - at least - "now and then" customers to gog. On the other hand, gog already has enough ^"complainers", maybe there is no need to further strengthen der ranks ;o)
no, that's the plan. I'm a "complainer" as you say and I actively work on steam forums to enroll more of our people. So you, gog shills, will have harder time to advocate for gog's mishaps next time :)