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Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026
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Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?
Not for me.
No. The update process can be a tad bit slow sometimes, but the as actual usage etc. is very fine.
Epic Games on the other hand I had countless times of installing or just starting where it would just ramp up system resources and wouldn't get going.
Nope.
On my old pc it take about 30 second from PC finished booting to launching Steam in Big Picture, not sure what happened because on my new PC it just launched within second.
I love steam but I have to admit it's rather slow both on Windows and Linux.
Isn't steam kind of web based and so always a bit slow because of that ?
I guess I can't really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that's usually only first time launches or after some updates.
Steam is significantly slower to open that Heroic or Lutris.
Wish it was faster sure.
Sometimes big picture but I only use it for like 10 seconds then launch my game.
I do, but there is an issue with lauchers in general. Not just steam.