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
-silentto the arguments.
Now can we get steam not opening when we launch a game?
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.
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.
Would staying offline on the friends network help that issue?
