If you’ve got multiple hard drives in your gaming computer, it’s entirely possible that you’ve configured more than one of them to be usable as a Steam library folder. In this sort of scenario, you may occasionally want to shuffle around the games you have installed. Maybe you need to move games to one drive to free up space on another; Alternatively, one of your hard drives … [Read more...] about How to Move the Install Folder for a Steam Game
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How to Disable Shader Pre-Caching in Steam
One of the features you may notice in Steam is called “Shader Pre-Caching”, however, the feature only has a small description and can be a little difficult to understand. According to the feature description “Shader Pre-Caching allows Steam to download pre-compiled GPU shaders matching your system configuration. This allows Vulkan and OpenGL games to load faster and improve … [Read more...] about How to Disable Shader Pre-Caching in Steam
Steam: How to Change the Homepage for the in-Game Overlay Browser
When playing games on Steam you may occasionally want to use a web browser. Perhaps you want to check a guide or purchase some DLC for your game. You could tab out into your normal browser, but some games don’t play well with losing focus and can crash. To help with this, Steam has a web browser built into its in-game overlay that allows you to switch to a browser without … [Read more...] about Steam: How to Change the Homepage for the in-Game Overlay Browser
How to Change Which Page Is Opened When You Launch Steam
If you’re a PC gamer, you almost certainly have Steam installed on your computer. Steam is the biggest store for PC games. When you open Steam, it defaults to opening the Store page, so you can see all the new and recommended games and any sales immediately. You may not want Steam to open to the store page by default though. Thankfully, you can change the default page if you … [Read more...] about How to Change Which Page Is Opened When You Launch Steam
How to Set Steam to Start Automatically With Windows
If you’re a PC gamer, you probably have Steam installed as it is the most popular store for PC games. If you regularly play games on your computer, you may want to configure Steam to launch automatically when your computer boots up. This option won’t be for everyone, as not everyone will want Steam to open automatically and it does slow down your boot-up times a little. … [Read more...] about How to Set Steam to Start Automatically With Windows
How to Add Game to Steam
Steam is one of if not THE most popular gaming platform in the world. There are thousands of games available on it, and dozens more are added each day. From early access to indie retro titles, you can find just about anything there – and even if you can’t, you can still add games to your Steam library. … [Read more...] about How to Add Game to Steam
How to Stream Origin Games Over Steam
One of the best features of Steam is the ability to install a game on one computer and stream it to another. It comes in handy if you want to play a game that uses many resources from a less powerful computer such as a laptop. Not only can you use the Steam streaming feature for games purchased from the Steam store, but you can also stream non-Steam games from Origin such as … [Read more...] about How to Stream Origin Games Over Steam