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.

  • rifugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    1 year ago

    It’s by far the most popular PC game distribution in the world. Yes, people launch games and then browse while waiting.

    • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.worldEnglish
      87·
      1 year ago

      I have an m2drive I’ve never had to wait. Upgrade your storage, then no waiting. Even when I had a hdd I never waited. So this would have been a surprise to me.

    • ShustOne@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious how many steam users actually browse while waiting for a game to launch. I know they have a lot of users but I can’t imagine more than one or two percent actually do this.