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The “Valve answered in 24 hours” story everyone is sharing has the timeline backwards. And the same thing happened in 2018. Here's how this week actually went. Epic spent almost a year rebuilding its game launcher, then paid an outside testing firm called Keywords Studios to run it against Steam on 13 Windows PCs. Epic's app got from a cold start to the store page in 5.47 seconds on average. Steam took 10.07. Those numbers were legit when Epic ran them. But on October 13, Valve put out a…
Pirat_Nation@Pirat_NationOct 15
Steam just got a little faster. Valve has released a new Steam update that improves startup performance. In a user test, Steam launched in 5.23 seconds, beating the 5.47 seconds claimed by Epic “vibe-coded” launcher Now Steam has pushed a major update and is faster than epic games >Improved startup performance >New Big Picture features >A new screensaver system, including the classic bouncing Steam logo >Steam Controller improvements > Several Linux improvements and fixes >A new experimental video codec for Remote Play >Lots of smaller fixes and quality-of-life improvements