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hobojoe58   09-06-2006 at 12:28:29 AM

Does anybody have any tips or tools that would optimize Steam(Counter-Strike, ect) Its a HUGE cpu/RAM hog and its inconvienant and ridiculous. ANY RESPONSE IS WELCOME!

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cafuddled   09-07-2006 at 10:52:09 AM
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Short of getting a ram scrubber there is nothing you can really do… But then with a ram scrubber your using more CPU resources so it’s kind of a steeling from Peter to pay Paul thing.

Most modern systems will not need optimized anyway. Since when you run a game that uses the steam engine, it will put steam in to hibernation mode using next to nothing in the CPU cycles and about 20MBs of ram. It does use a lot more when it is left running on your system when you are doing other stuff. But if that is a problem, then just do what I do and close steam whenever you are not using a game that needs it.

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