Performence issues without steam_appid.txt

[bandrewk]

Hi guys,

without a steam_appid.txt my application runs slower than with, especially map loading. I am curious, is anyone experiencing the same?

 

Cheers,

Bryan

[Josh]

Maybe it is repeatedly attempting to initialize Steam, and that process has a certain time/cost? I will set it so it only attempts to initialize Steam once, and it will just skip it thereafter. It's not supposed to unless you call it, but there might be an internal call to something that causes this.