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JumpinJesus
18th January 2008, 13:56
I'm using a dual core 2 2GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM on board, and vista as my OS. For some reason, when i launch steam usage of both cores go up about 30-40% and my laptop gets hot really quickly. Is there some kind of steam-light availible? I tried to find some solution in the internet, but came up with nothing (except porn sites of course...).
Crappermine
18th January 2008, 14:41
why not run your steam at a lower process
rick_2k
18th January 2008, 14:53
sure its not updating games or something. Only thing i can think of. Runs fine on all the machines and laptops i have ran it on.
Omnituens
18th January 2008, 14:59
my laptop is fine with steam.
Niax
18th January 2008, 15:19
if you don't have an internet connection, but do have a network connection, it'll run up a fair bit of usage trying to get out to the steam servers for a minute or two before it gives up and asks you to go into offline mode.
ez64
18th January 2008, 15:36
30-40% loading steam is very good.
swarfega
18th January 2008, 15:51
probably vista :p
Chunkylover!
18th January 2008, 16:31
i'm using vista, and once Steam's running it sits at 0% CPU usage, occasionally popping up to 2%.
Shazz
18th January 2008, 16:37
my laptop is fine with steam.

:ditto:


...and mines a passivly cooled dell (or it doesnt get hot enough under gaming to actually use the fan)
JumpinJesus
18th January 2008, 22:53
i tried lower priority and i couldn't notice any difference. if weird steam usage is the price of vista, i pay it gladly. let's all thank God for Dx10=]
Shazz
18th January 2008, 22:58
You mean DX10 thats already technically obselete?
swarfega
18th January 2008, 23:45
I formatted windows xp again today as it was performing fairly slow. I had found out that the drive I had installed it to only had a 2mb buffer! So that was the cause of the jerky playing.

Ive moved xp and steam to another HD with 8mb and it makes all the difference. Ive also managed to increase the frequency of my memory.

So far everythings running smoothly.
larky
19th January 2008, 02:27
you'll blame anything on jerky play :awesome:
maDDin
19th January 2008, 09:49
I got 8 and 16 MB Cache at my 2 HDDs and still got those freezes atm. But some other players get em too. Its wenn someone hangs in midair doing nothing for abt 4 or 5 secs :/
swarfega
19th January 2008, 10:03
When someone hangs in mid air for 4 or 5 seconds, thats because they have a wireless connection.