A related thing that annoys me, if you start Steam manually, it takes ~30 seconds to launch and it will steal your focus multiple times during launch. So annoying!
I had the same issue and you can do this by editing your Steam shortcut and adding
-silent
to the arguments.Yeah, that’s really annoying - it steals focus once upon launching, another time upon loading and another time when the news popup opens.
Now can we get steam not opening when we launch a game?
Isnt this possible? I do it with blender. Just right click the icon of the game and pin it to your taskbar then click it when you wanna launch the game
Please
Pretty please
steam is not a drm-free platform like GOG or Epic Games (some epic games games have additional drm, but most are completely drm-free and there’s no client-level drm at all like in steam*).
Most games use the Steam API to check stuff, so Steam client needs to be running.
(I’m actually kinda ok with steam’s drm btw, it’s not as intrusive as on some other stuff)I’m fine with the DRM. But why does the window need to open and take several seconds to “connect to the friends network” for a singleplayer game? This doesn’t need to be a blocking process.
Try staying offline on the friends network? Might help that issue.
There’s a setting somewhere to disable the friends list.
You mean just the UI popping up or steam itself? Because it’s up to individual games if they implement any steam drm, and if so how much.
Yes if you go to 20 years ago
Or the window popping up when you exit steam from the system tray just to show you “steam stutting down” and a spinning icon for 5 seconds.
Jfc. Thank you Valve!!! I have long since lost track of how many times I have sworn at Steam stealing focus on startup, usually wyej I an entering a keyring password or something.
i usually just disable autostsrtup for basically everything that doesn’t need to be running for my system to work or productivity tools (like sharex and powertoys)
I haven’t checked the settings, can I make my friends list the default window again?