• @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    610 months ago

    Few seconds, steam takes longer. And I’ve never had login issues too.

    Is it from linked accounts or privacy clearing techniques?

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      710 months ago

      Weird, steam is so much faster for me. And I don’t do anything strange, just log in and use it, but almost every single time it asks for my password. I wonder if there’s a timer - like, if you don’t log in for a week, you have to give your credentials again?

      • @Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Even without re-entering my credentials or actually completely closing and opening EGS within (reasonably waiting for all related processed to close first) a few seconds, it opens and loads/downloads my library content very late compared to Steam or GOG. Opening the store as default was actually worse.

        So far all my friends have the same experience. The top commenter must be very lucky, or maybe their EGS program runs in the background at startup.

        • @wahming
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          210 months ago

          Yeah by default epic runs at startup

        • @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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          110 months ago

          Epic

          Even my friends have similar experiences, between steam and epic taking the same amount of time. Even before I upgraded I never noticed an issue like “minutes”.

          • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            410 months ago

            On my beefy desktop PC it takes about 30s to a minute to open on a 4 year old SSD

            Steam takes about 15s max, less usually but it opens on PC start so I don’t usually have to open it

            On my laptop from 3 years ago steam is about a 22s open (doesn’t open on launch there) and epic takes well over a minute and a fucking half

            The laptop hardware is just slightly older, lower versions of basically the same desktop hardware too so why the difference is so gd massive idk

            But it seems like some hardware HATES EGS

          • @Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            No, of course I’m not saying it takes minutes on a computer from the last few years with a nvme. The duration in the meme is likely a blatant exaggeration for meming, or for a weaker computer (still a valid criticism point but another topic).

            I just tried both. With the first start, Steam vs Epic timers are about 5vs10 seconds, while with a second launch Steam still keeps to 5 while Epic is down to 7 second for me.

            These are all on a Ryzen 3600 with 3500wr nvme and a 3200mhz ram, but friends have both worse and better PCs in all regards and still notice the difference.

            5 vs 7, even 5 vs 10 seconds on an enough PC isn’t and shouldn’t be something to fret about. Admittedly, my feelings of Epic being slower comes from still long first post-install runs and usage from 6+ months ago, and in my case Epic opens quite quickly these days.

            Edit: Checked your vid, and yeah, something similar on a second-run, but albeit with a flashing Epic logo once, but in a similar duration in total.

      • @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Epic

        Steam

        I7 13700kf 64ram 4080

        Like I get I have few issues from the newness and overkill, but credentials shouldn’t be a hardware issue, and sometimes new components do weird things loading wise. My old 2600k did things better than newer chips for years.

        Edit, I wonder if internet speed matters, I’ve got gig internet.

    • credit crazy
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      210 months ago

      Interesting to see this discussion because I don’t use epic because I don’t play many games outside of TF2 and space engineers and I more or less just use steam to auto update blender and tell me how my PC is doing so all I experienced is steam taking about a half minute to open every time.