Instead of digging through the card manufacturer’s website, you can go to Steam > Check for Video Driver Updates to install them within the client. They’re why you can’t connect to that dumb printer, why your mouse stopped working on Windows 10 and why your graphics card isn’t running as fast as it could be. Update your drivers the simple wayĭrivers are the source of 99.99% of all troubles on Windows for the average user. Not as fully featured as something like Fraps, but simpler and built into Steam. Steam > Settings > In-game > Frame counter > Upper Right puts a subtle gray number (really, it’s easy to miss) in the upper right corner.
See how many frames per second you’re gettingĭid you know Steam has a built-in FPS overlay? It’s a subtle, useful tool when you’re starting up a new game and trying to figure out how high you can turn up the graphics while keeping a consistent framerate. To enable it for all downloads, try Steam > Preferences > Downloads > Allow downloads during gameplay. That’s the temporary solution, if you want to do that background work just once. Watch out for this, it’s not a real issue. That’ll get it running in the background.įair warning: When I tried this, it often said there was an issue downloading and would stop every ~10 minutes. Go to Library > Downloads > Play game for the paused download. To switch it back on, start up the other game and Alt-Tab back to Steam. Unfortunately, the default behavior behind Steam is to pause a download while another game is running. Why wouldn’t you? Isn’t the whole point of having games to kill time? This one is annoying, because playing a game while you’re waiting for another to download seems like the natural thing to do. 8 Tips and Tricks for Using Steam Download a game while playing another Here’s how to take advantage of them and use Steam to its fullest extent. There are features hidden in Valve’s OS that you may not realize are even there. It’s also a lot more powerful than you may realize. It’s fast, convenient and the gold standard in PC gaming. Steam is everyone’s favorite DRM (Data Rights Management) system.
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