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System Name | Main PC |
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Processor | 13700k |
Motherboard | Asrock Z690 Steel Legend D4 - Bios 13.02 |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D15S |
Memory | 32 Gig 3200CL14 |
Video Card(s) | 4080 RTX SUPER FE 16G |
Storage | 1TB 980 PRO, 2TB SN850X, 2TB DC P4600, 1TB 860 EVO, 2x 3TB WD Red, 2x 4TB WD Red |
Display(s) | LG 27GL850 |
Case | Fractal Define R4 |
Audio Device(s) | Soundblaster AE-9 |
Power Supply | Antec HCG 750 Gold |
Software | Windows 10 21H2 LTSC |
Uaing VSS I rolled it back and compared, no notable power usage difference but the new client is using circa 4x as many cpu cycles. So it has lost a fair amount of efficiency even if it doesnt feel slow.I guess it depends on your Windows settings.
I have set up the font size scaling to 125% in "Ease of Access" > "Make text bigger", so that must be the culprit. The new Steam UI is now either doubling the scaling (adding +25% twice), or cancelling the Windows setting completely, so there's no middle ground (might act different for the "Scale and layout" setting, but I don't like how it makes everything bigger, so I'm not going to even try it out just for Steam's sake).
I remember that Firefox did the same thing after some major update (v100 or v110), where it not only scaled along with the Windows settings, but added additional 25% and made the text giant, but at least in Firefox, you can access the advance settings and disable that new feature.
Well, Epic has always added ~30W-35W for me, lol, so it's still better, even if it was not possible to fix it on your system, especially considering how much more stuff is packed onto Steam vs EGS.
However I then downloaded a game update on the new version, and at gigabit speeds it almost fully stretched my 9900k lol, 79% cpu usage across all cores. It seems to be doing something a bit whacked on game updates, but it might have been just that game as I know some games now patch live as you download.