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wbk 30 Sep @ 7:55pm
The Steam Store has become unbearably slow
For the past few months I have noticed the steam store from the client has becoming more and more slow. Specifically the store pages that are always stuck trying to download images and the videos. To the point it has become unusable as I can't see to shop on the store pages. Games download super fast though.

I've tried deleting cache files etc but nothing fixes it. I am in Taiwan, so I don't know if something specific has happened to cause this for the region? This never used to be a problem. And now even the store website from a web browser like Chrome has the same issue. The speed of any other website is absolutely fine though, so its specific to Steam.

Maybe there is some issue with whatever CDN Steam uses for the store images and videos? And I assume that is a separate mechanism than the game download delivery which is fine, and probably some torrent derived system.
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biesoid 30 Sep @ 8:12pm 
You mean something like this?
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/0/640179446900388182/?ctp=2#c640179539761222554

I've been having this problem since probably almost a year.

The only answer you will get is that the problem is on your end. It's waste of time. They're probably cutting costs, so in some regions CDNs are slower.
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wbk 1 Oct @ 3:14am 
Looks similar, and yeh anything I could find like that looks like its been completely ignored. I wouldn't have thought Steam would need to cut costs like that though! I suspect its more likely the CDN's have changed something in the certain regions they are not aware of.
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Sysgen 1 Oct @ 8:12am 
Originally posted by biesoid:
You mean something like this?
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/0/640179446900388182/?ctp=2#c640179539761222554

I've been having this problem since probably almost a year.

The only answer you will get is that the problem is on your end. It's waste of time. They're probably cutting costs, so in some regions CDNs are slower.


The lading screenshots thing happens to me forever though when I click another screenshot the first loads fine. Not a big deal but would like to see this addressed.
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REDMVGE 1 Oct @ 11:02am 
it's gotten awful for me when it comes to loading screenshots of games on their pages. Like, 20 years ago internet type slow. I don't remember the last time I had to wait for an image to finish materializing top to bottom...

I've tried clearing the download cache as some suggested, but that only made steam dump all cached images so now I sat here waiting for all the art and screenshots in my library to finish rebuilding, which just like store screenshots was slow as hell...
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