Steam Client Webhelper using a lot of the GPU

[Atticus_Maytrap]

Hi there,

I bought a game on Steam last night, and i was i closing out the purchase i noticed on MSI Afterburner that the GPU clock was ramped up to load levels as though i were gaming.

I checked in the task manager, and Steam Client Webhelper was using around 40% of the GPU. It would then go down to nothing, only to pop back up again about 15-20 seconds later.

Restarted the machine and it stopped, ran a virus scan and got nothing back.

Any ideas?

 

[Rhein7]

Probably just stuck or something.
You can try to disable the gpu rendering on Steam > Settings > Interface then uncheck "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views" and restart the app.

 

[Law-II]

Try disabling GPU acceleration in steam settings

atb

Law-II

 

[Atticus_Maytrap]

Thanks guys, i'll give that a shot and see if it happens again

 

[eidairaman1]

Another solution is to not
Autostart on windows boot and then just totally exit it after done gaming.

Why does a game loader need hw acceleration anyway when todays cpus do not struggle to do such mundane tasks like that?