Steam is unusable

[vadrian89]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): Versiunea Steam: 1696019606 Data versiunii clientului Steam: vin., 29 sept. 20:38 UTC +02:00 Data compilării web pentru Steam: vin., 29 sept. 23:25 UTC +02:00 Versiunea API-ului Steam: SteamClient020
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Operating System: KDE neon 5.27 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.2.0-34-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 31.2 GiO of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 81T0 System Version: Legion Y7000 2019 PG0
• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
• Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
• GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD Intel (integrated)/Nvidia (dedicated), prime profile set to Performance Mode

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

The first issue is that the system becomes incredible sluggish/unresponsive, despite processor not going passed 20-30%, whenever steam starts. Initially, this issue lasted for around 1 min after Steam started and while a game was starting, afterwards the issue disappeared. Also, the performance issue is very noticeable when external monitors (2) are attached. If I disconnect them, the performance issues of the system are bearely noticeable and disappear once Steam finish starting.

As you can see from the following screenshot, steam is found as process, but does nothing. The second issue is that Steam doesn't start from launcher, anymore. It can only start from terminal. This is issue is not affected by multi-monitor setup.

I have tried reinstalling steam, but issue is persistent.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Install Steam
2. Start Steam

[kisak-valve]

Hello @vadrian89,

The second issue is that Steam doesn't start from launcher, anymore. It can only start from terminal.

This is the issue being tracked at #8179.

[vadrian89]

@kisak-valve

Thank you for pointing out.

Forgot to mention, driver version: 535.113.01