


The first one is how much RAM a particular game is programmed to use. Two factors dictate how high this threshold is and how it can fluctuate. Yet, there is only so much RAM you can add before it reaches a certain limit beyond which all the extra RAM will end up being unused. The game will have less memory to load data sets (game engine, textures, levels, lighting, and so on), resulting in a choppier gaming experience with some off-putting framerate drops. If a system has low RAM – let’s say 4 GB – then RAM will have a significant effect on game performance.

I'm sorry if my writing or settings section name is somehow mistaken but I use Steam in Spanish and I translated that on the go.Įnjoy your gaming, willing to hear if this fixed it for you or not.The impact of RAM on gaming is a strange beast, and it is an extreme and disappointing tail-off. I hope this will fix it for you guys cause I really struggled with this sh**. My guess is something was missconfigured or making some kind of conflict with Big Picture or Controller settings and that's why it only was fixed once I entered and changed something in there. Open and close Guide Button Sequence Settings In the same menu, make sure you deactivate Guide Button option (the first one) Open General Controller Settings and deactivate/activate some options before exiting Here is what I did and finally reduced my Steam CPU compsumition: Those didn't work for me, that's why I started to tweak things and try to find out on my own. Preventing Steam from using all CPU cores and making it use only one of them exe, steamapps and userdata (this will reinstall without losing data or games) I got sick of this and started trying to fix it until I finally found a solution today, before anything else I want to tell you which fixes I tried before as long as every case is different and maybe some of them could make it for you, so this is what I've tried until I fot it done:Ĭhanging skin to a different one (either stock or custom depending if you are already using one or another)ĭeleting every file on Steam folder but Steam. So I've been bumping into a wall lately with Steam process consuming 20-30% CPU or even more at some times.
