My current rig is:
6700xt
1600AF
32 giggle bits of DDR4
1TB NVME storage
I didn’t think it was a bad rig but steam games take forever to load, it spins on the steam logo for what feels like an eternity. I use Arch btw.
Be like me! Upgrade all of it and pretend that it makes you happy and that you might actually have more time to game!
CPU. Have the same setup, just with a 3060ti and ryzen 9 5900X (Arch btw). More processing power is key. Made my sister upgrade to ryzen 7 5800 and she’s loading much faster. Hope that helps.
*Will also note that they go on sale quite often and can snag a good one for less than 300 USD.
I suppose the CPU but it could help to understand which exact disk and which DIMMs (including latencies) you’re using.
Bear in mind you can easily drop a 5800 X3D into practically any AM4 system. The large L3 somewhat lowers the significance faster DDR4 with tight timings (though it still doesn’t hurt to have that too).
Samsung EVO 840 I think but I could be misremembering, and my RAM runs like 2333 if that makes sense. I think a 5800X3D is definitely in my future
I believe the sweet spot for Matisse and Vermeer (zen 2 and 3 chiplet design CPUs) memory wise is 3600 CL16. Later batches of these CPUs may have better luck with stability at 3800 MT/s (due to process maturity) but that would be at a point of diminishing returns (especially with the X3D).
You might improve the performance of your current CPU by tuning your memory, but I won’t know how far you can get with your kit unless we have the exact model number.
The 1600AF seems to be zen+ based (characteristically similar to the Ryzen 5 2600). For zen+, something like 3200 MT/s CL14 would be optimal if you can achieve it, 3200 CL16 would be good too.
Specific timing would be helpful. Hard to know if things are improving without.
With arch, open a terminal and watch in htop and iotop for hardware contention issues.
32 giggle bits of DDR4 That is just a funny autocorrect. 😁
I actually always call them giggle bits, because I’m silly as heck 😎
Wayland helps launch times for me as long as your system doesn’t balk at it. If you are using X, give that a shot?
I’ve tried Wayland before but had issues with various things that I can’t enumerate right now. I’ll give it another shot if you think it’ll really help
Are you using steam from a repo or flatpak?
Both, I was on the flatpak but it wasn’t syncing my cloud saves so I went native. Same issue with both installations.
Does steam take an eternity to launch or is it the game after steam has launched¿?
Definitely the game, my PC auto starts steam in big picture and it hardly takes any time at all
