Summary of Steam optimization tips 2018

Steam is the leading gaming portal for PC. The article introduces some extremely useful tips to help you optimize Steam.

No matter how much you love or hate Steam, you can’t deny the importance of this software in PC gaming. Steam’s Summer Sale offers unbeatable prices on your favorite games, and the cloud storage service has saved many lives. Although there are still some issues, but Steam is still a lot better than other competitors.

While it’s not a very complex platform in itself, there’s still a lot you can do with Steam that you might not have noticed at first. Here are some tips and tricks to help you get the most out of this software. Besides, you can also read more about useful tools you didn’t know about Steam.

Open link in new window

Steam Client is basically like a web browser, but it can’t compare to browsers like Chrome or Microsoft Edge, it’s quite slow and users have to tick the “Settings>Display>Show URL address bar” box. when available” can get the address to copy and paste. And it’s not clear that the user can open multiple windows at the same time, but only with one middle click nice Hold down the Ctrl button while clicking on a link you can easily do that.

Sort games by disk space

The Detail View is a great way to view the game library because it provides a lot of information, whereas the Grid View is smaller but looks better. List View is essentially a hybrid version of the two, except that instead of just being sorted alphabetically, it allows you to view the list of games by selecting the categories at the top. “Size on disk” is a useful entry for those wondering why their hard drive is only a few GB (probably because Vermintide 2 takes up 49.85 GB), but you can also sort by Metacritic review score or whether the game has Cloud storage or not.

Use custom icons

Speaking of Grid View, one factor that makes it not as beautiful as many users want is that some games have very ugly icons, or no icons at all, or have icons that would have been beautiful if not filled with ratings and comments. Fortunately, gamers have a choice “Set custom images” and with a single right click, a whole collection of user-generated icons will appear, such as the collection for those who own these Star Wars titles.

Play elsewhere via In-Home Streaming

You can stream to your TV using Steam Link (either through a physical box or through an app that newer Samsung TVs come with), but there’s a better way to do this. In-home stream can be used when the player wants the game to run as smoothly as on his big PC but wants to sit in another room (WC?) and play on the laptop. You can also go cross-platform, which means, for example, streaming games from your Windows PC to your Macbook.

To use, just turn on the In-Home Streaming function in the Settings menu. And then log into your Steam account on another device with a network connection, and it should appear. If you stream via a laptop, you can also connect that laptop to the TV.

Sort the library by category

Returning to the Detail View, right-clicking a game will bring up options to put the game into the categories you want, making sorting easier for gamers with huge libraries.

You can select multiple games at the same time by Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click. But if you have to organize a library of hundreds of thousands of games, don’t worry, a program called Depressurizer will make things easier. Turn off Steam, then use the Depressurizer to sort them, and it will create categories for them by category when you restart Steam.

Use gallery filters

Another way to organize your Steam library without using Steam is the filter site, which allows you to break down your library by genre, platform, feature, and even by supported language without having to touches the main library in Steam. Just enter your Steam ID, profile name or URL and you can narrow down the games you want to put together, for example, the Fishing filter and Great Soundtrack will yield Stardew Valley and Battle Chasers: Nightwar.

Subscribe to major channels

You may already know that Steam has many different channels, which are often used to recommend games to users. PC Gamer is also one of them, and they have a list of games that they rate as 90% or higher. However, it is possible that you are not aware of channels that provide information services, such as Cut-Content Police: talk about games that have been edited or censored to be available on Steam, and related Links to ways to recover that discarded content. But it’s not just sexual content, there are many other affiliate links like EA’s missing DLC ​​collection for old Bioware games.

Two-layer security settings

If you use the Steam Calculator tool to calculate how many assets you have spent in your Steam wallet only to be overwhelmed by the results, then that number certainly needs to be kept secure in case someone gets the password. and your email account. This two-factor security requires the user to connect another device to Steam, and is also the only reason you should download the Steam app on your phone, because it is also quite useless to be honest. Here’s a Steam page that talks about two-factor security to help you understand better.

Share games through Family Sharing

Let’s go back to the days when game discs could be shared between brothers and friends (certainly not fighting, not at all…) thanks to the tool. Family Sharing (search in ) Settings > Family), allowing each account to share its library with 5 other accounts, using it on up to 10 devices.

In practice, this means that whoever you call “family” can install and play any of your games, but only when you’re not playing it – if you start playing, the other person there will be a few minutes warning before getting kicked. Still, it’s still a great way to share games with your little ones. But note that any games using Games for Windows Live or Rockstar Social Club cannot be shared.

Use pre-made skins

Do you hate the look of Steam? For some people it can be boring, with the basic black-blue-gray tones. And if you want a more personal look, just download skins like Pixelvision 2 or Air, and copy them to C:Program Files (x86)Steamskins, then go to C:Program Files (x86)Steamskins Settings > Interface of Steam and choose the template you want to use, restart the app, and enjoy the new colors and typography. Here is a collection of the most loved skins from PC Gamer.

Shop more conveniently with Enhanced Steam

Enhanced Steam is a browser that makes shopping on the website version of Steam easier. It provides more information about the price history of each game and the current lowest prices on other stores, and also shows if they are being sold in bundles, saving you time and money. You have to go to isthereanydeal.com every time you want to find the best price. Besides, Steam Economy Enhancer can be of great help when you shop on Steam website version.

Use the Overlay feature

Press the key combination Shift+Tab In most games, Steam’s Overlay interface will be enabled so that players can check the time, see what their achievements are for, or search for instructions without pressing Alt+Tab. With Overlay, you can also capture the screen with the default key F12 and can be adjusted if desired. Another useful piece of information displayed in the Overlay view is your frame rate (fps), along with color and position adjustment options.

Check out the Big List of Third-Party DRM (Steam Third-Party Digital Rights Management List)

Before you decide to buy Mortal Kombat Kollection and realize it needs Games for Windows Live to run, take a look at Steam’s list of third-party DRMs first. It will tell you which games need external DRM and provide fixes for games that have been deprecated after launch preventing you from playing the game.

Sell ​​out Trading Cards quickly

Not interested in Steam’s Trading Card? Then sell them all. Instead of having to set a price for each card, use a Chrome extension called Steam Economy Enhancer or Steam Inventory Helper.

Both have the function of automatically selling out your card. For example, with Steam Inventory Helper, open Steam in Chrome, log in, go to Inventory, click the “Select All” button (must enable the utility first, this button will appear) to select all cards, then click “sell items”. On the left hand corner you will see the option to “quick sell” everything you have selected. The price will be set at random. You still have to confirm via email or the app on your phone, but that’s still better than doing it yourself.

Once there is a buyer, the money is automatically transferred to the seller’s Steam wallet, and can be used to buy games or in-game items.

Listen to music

Steam also functions as a music player, believe it? Go to View > Music Details or View > Music Player and enjoy the epic music you heard while playing that game. Relax to the soothing tunes of Kentucky Route Zero, or the novelty of A Merry Payday Christmas, or even listen to Portal’s OST to relive 2007 when the game was taking the world by storm. However, the arrangement is not very ideal: some names appear multiple times in different playlists, but having this feature alone is nice.

By PC Gamer