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.

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    I use steam very irregularly and only for a couple small games. Is this something a lot of people do? Never occurred to me.

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      It’s by far the most popular PC game distribution in the world. Yes, people launch games and then browse while waiting.

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        I have an m2drive I’ve never had to wait. Upgrade your storage, then no waiting. Even when I had a hdd I never waited. So this would have been a surprise to me.

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        I’m curious how many steam users actually browse while waiting for a game to launch. I know they have a lot of users but I can’t imagine more than one or two percent actually do this.

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      Steam has 120 million active users a month and 60m a day, so yes it’s something a lot of people do.

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      This comment feels unnervingly AI generated. You commented on 3 posts in 3 minutes.

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        Not sure how much tome it takes you to type 3 paragraphs but 3 Minutes seem quite reasonable if your engadged in something… And as a non native speaker, I thought my flawed English certainly wouldn’t pass as an AI (maybe a shitty one though)