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Older systems tend to struggle for a reason.
Of course in some cases it still may be, some users who've only known summer may not be aware of this. Sometimes running dated hardware means upgrades.
This thing is a beast
Were you using Steam's web browser to browse the website? Videos and large images take a lot of memory.
OP. Valve's resource usage is directly tied to the resources of your system. I was able to run Steam quite compfrtable on a 17 year old system up until last month when I finally upgraded.
Mad lad. I can't even fathom it. Like were you running a first gen Athlon64? Because I ditched mine in 2009.
System is still here beside me. Think I'm gonna turn it into a dedicated capture box.
When I build a asystem. I build one to last!
The amount of processes is just how Chromium works. The Steam client is basically a giant browser, every part is it's own "tab", translated into it's own process.
And it's not just one process per tab; modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.) will put background computations and networking and audio and video decoding into their own processes.
If another process needs more memory then Windows will simplyi claw it back from that process, and that stuff goes into paged memory. That's how modern OS memory management works.