Launching a game means that the entire Steam Window fades and it will become entirely unusable until the game starts. That is not a separate startup window, thats just an embedded element inside the main one. If you accidentally click outside, the game startup gets canceled.

It is a bit more than mildly frustrating when Im waiting on the Vulkan shaders for BFV for like half an hour to process.

  • WiildFiire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why would you need to browse steam while you’re launching a game? Is your object permanace so fucked that you can’t wait for shaders to compile?

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      1 year ago

      Compiling shaders can take a long time for some games though, MCC took about 15 minutes for me. No reason to unnecessarily lock the UI from UX perspective anyways imo