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jiggy2011

Nope , just wait 10 minutes for Steam to load , check DRM and do all updates and your ready to go!

Believe me, I'd wait a few more seconds for it to do that than it erroring out to a prompt with "UNDEFINED SYMBOL: GTK_BUILDER_NEW", or worse, crash with a core dump where I'll never find it or know what to do with.

But think of the freedom you get with those UNDEFINED SYMBOL and core dumps! I'll take DRM-free core dumps over playable games, any day!

DRM free core dumps surely should be more fun than DRMed ones. ;) But seriously, having or not having DRM is not really directly related to how often it will crash.

In the past I've had games crash because of the DRM. At least, thats what it sounded like from error messages and google searches. Tages and securom how I loathe thee!

</sarcasm>

That's one of my biggest annoyances with Steam. It takes so long to load.

I'm tempted to install another partition of Windows with nothing on it except steam and the drivers necessary for me to play games, to see if it'll make starting steam any faster.

I've tried. It doesn't.

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