Steam will no longer crash for the few people who own over 25,000 games

Steam will no more yearner crash for the few people who own over 25,000 games

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There are presently just over 51,000 games on Steam—but IT turns verboten that, until recently, the client was prone to crashing if you closely-held even half of them.

An update for Steam's beta client pushed yesterday set a possible clang for owners with over 25,000 games in their library. As known by the r/pcmasterrace user who black-and-white the patch, this could mean that someone who currently owns so much a vast collecting noticed the issue and reported information technology to Valve.

Working taboo how many an people this whitethorn even have affected is a weensy tricksy. Steam analytics site Steamladder currently lists tercet hoi polloi As having passed this threshold. Their world Steamer profiles Don River't show quite as many, however, as it appears this telephone number omits out of sight games. SteamDB has its possess graph of users who supposedly have over 25,000 games, using the associated badge to keep track, and reckons there's a just some cardinal more. According to their SteamDB foliate, Steam user Sonix apparently owns a staggering 42,061 titles.

Of course, information technology's also possible that this was just a humble issue discovered by Valve's own testing, making Steam more lasting for folks with ludicrous library counts. Steam is only getting bigger, with 10,263 games added in 2020 alone. Collector's libraries are only going to increase in size—and while we hindquarters deliberate who actually owns the most games on the chopine, collectors give the sack be fairly sure the client won't buckle low-level the strain anymore.

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