• The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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          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?

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            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.

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                11 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

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                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.

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          11 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.

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        11 months ago

        It’s an issue with your setup my dude because it launches quicker than Steam for me

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      Yes. Over the years I just stick to Steam partly because it actually keeps me logged in and actually functions faster than a snails pace.

      Uplay/Uconnect whatever they wanna call themselves today is the worst. But Origin/EA and Epic ain’t much better.

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        11 months ago

        egs games are drm-free and with Legendary it’s a really nice experience (I’m using legendary with playnite)
        never lost my token/login
        the epic servers are kinda slow tho

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      11 months ago

      There are valid reasons to bash Epic. I’ve written about some of them in another comment thread I made on Lemmy, but the overall problem I (and likely many others) have with them is a combination of their CEO’s hypocrisy and the company’s actions.

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      11 months ago

      I didn’t realise you could bash it? Isn’t it a GUI application? And one that needs to run inside wine at that?

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      11 months ago

      Same here. I run it on windows 11 and sign in with Google… never really noticed any performance issues.

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        While both of our claims are anecdotal, I’ve had it cause performance issues. It definitely isn’t the normal behavior for EGS and was probably a bug, but on my system it was sometimes sitting in the tray consuming 10 GB of system memory (and causing excessive swapping due to memory pressure).