Q&A, July 25, 2012

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Were they tested at development with Steam running in the background though?

I don't understand why it would matter. Are we suggesting that steam would cause low FPS? Perhaps if it is downloading whilst you play but it auto-pauses to stop harddrive activity when in a game.

On modern PCs its memory footprint isn't large enough to cause problems with the FPS of games otherwise it would affect other games as well. I get the same FPS in MoW:AS when it was run through steam and when it was stand alone. You'll have more effect if you close your internet browser than steam being off.

(Side note: I remember when HL2 came out and I had and older machine with 512mb of RAM, it was impossible to load HL2 for me with steam running and I had to upgrade.)

[salmo]

Originally Posted by GraveyardJimmy

I don't understand why it would matter. Are we suggesting that steam would cause low FPS? ... <snip>

It's been well demonstrated that steam does cause lowered fps in the multi-player (game server) environment. Once you get more than about 30-40 players in a MP server-game the fps begins to slow dramatically. This is becuase MP connects to steam as a client & not as a dedicated server. The issue has been reported to the devs & we hope it wil be corrected.