November 21, 200322 yr I found this topic in the STEAM forums, so give it a try. It may be very useful to many :PWould you Like to Save More Memory When Steam is Running? Hey guys! a buddy enlightened me to something here. Okay, I began to wonder why steam was burning like 20000-25000k in my process tree. Well we found out that if you have any steam windows open and you close them the cpu keeps burning the same amount. But wait! If instead of just closing the window, YOU MUST MINIMIZE FIRST!!!! I swear I was shocked at the amount of memory I was saving. Try it yourselves, Ctrl-Alt-Del and go to your process tab. Now look what happens when you close the window right away versus minimizing it to the taskbar, then right clicking and closing. It must be poor management of the skins or whatever. But just remember this lil hint "MINIMIZE FIRST, then close, this way you free up all available memory."
November 21, 200322 yr wowthey must have freakin genius programers i mean isnt that in like prograammin 101 maybe even 102
November 21, 200322 yr Hey, it sounds like TV commercial: " I swear I was shocked at the amount of memory I was saving. Try it yourselves.." But it is completely true, 1,5-4M instead of 22-23M active memory. Great! Amount of used virtual memory remains the same but who cares!
November 22, 200322 yr Author -Ripper]Duh, You can't play FA without Steam on. Think about it. Ripper it is talking about the actual start screen....you need to read more closely...and yes, it does work
November 22, 200322 yr Also if you guys run XP Make sure you go into task man while steam is runningthen go under your processes tab then right click on steam and choose low priorityIt cut my ping down by 50+
November 23, 200322 yr Sorry Gator, still doesn't work for me, I minimized it, then closed it in Alt-Ctrl-Delete. The actual STEAM program said it wasnt working, so you had to close it...<3
November 23, 200322 yr ok i need help..for the past couple of days my taskmg is looking weird..any help guys?
November 24, 200322 yr nooooo..i amnot talking abt that..look at my task manager it has no menus no name or anything.. only 1 main window..i need help to restore it to the way it was..Well you may have to reinstall you OS...I don't know whats wrong there.
November 25, 200322 yr lol i dunno what happened.. is there any way to get the orignal back? and who wrote this in my post Well you may have to reinstall you OS...I don't know whats wrong there.
November 26, 200322 yr Going54, I dunno if you have already got you task manager back to default view, but if not - place you mouse cursor over TM window border and make a double-click.If you already reinstalled your windows, well... this works also I think
November 29, 200322 yr going, we all have that when we open taskbar.I also have Win XP.Have almost the same amount of programs as uEDIT: nvm, I didn't see the 2nd page
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