its called small mode. you can open steam and select small mode from the top options. View/Small mode

Then go to Steam/Settings/Library and select Low bandwidth mode and Low Performance mode and disable community content. Even if you have an amazing computer with top specs select these options.

even with that it use too much RAM

Originally posted by A Chaos Emerald?:

even with that it use too much RAM

then something is very wrong with your computer because 400mb of ram is not a lot in current year. How much system ram do you have total?

4gb

Originally posted by A Chaos Emerald?:

4gb

Bruh....

Originally posted by A Chaos Emerald?:

4gb

M'dude. Upgrade.
Like seriously.
Though it's worth noting that due to the way WIndows allocates ram, Steam processes only really use ram when they are in the foreground. Once they're in the background the ram is freed up.

steam rarely reaches 400mb for me, if you've only got 4GB you need to install more ram

Originally posted by A Chaos Emerald?:

even with that it use too much RAM

Upgrade your ram, simple logic, has been a requirement for years in computers.

32gb of ram is currently around $40-70 USD depending on your generation.

It's dirt cheap.

Originally posted by Deadoon:

32gb of ram is currently around $40-70 USD depending on your generation.

It's dirt cheap.

Fair point. Not every machine can support 32gb. My second machine maxes out at 8gb. and many modern systems tend to top out at 16.

Hmm, most modern systems tend to max out at 256GB. My Q9650 retro rig has 16GB of DDR3 with quad SLI GTX 280's.

So, 4GB sounds very very low for use today.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by Deadoon:

32gb of ram is currently around $40-70 USD depending on your generation.

It's dirt cheap.

Fair point. Not every machine can support 32gb. My second machine maxes out at 8gb. and many modern systems tend to top out at 16.

I don't know of a single modern system that caps at 16gb system memory.
Maybe single stick cap of 16gb back in the early ddr3 era, but even mid-late ddr3 stuff was capable of handling 32gb dimms. My old I5-2500k had 24gb of system memory(2 4gb sticks and 2 gb sticks) and that had a max total memory of 32gb.

Edit: Apparently first gen core processors had a 16gb limit, third gen(2000 series) had 32gb, and it has increased ever since.

Originally posted by A Chaos Emerald?:

I want the lite version of steam, uses less RAM

Try using the previous way more resource efficient previous Steam's User Interface (UI) - Guide link, which used around 200MB's of PC's system upon the Windows 10 "Task Manager" instead of the current resource and boatware hog.

Been using it for around 2 years now and appart yesterday it forcing me to open it without the "-vgui" command just to allow its newer data mining clusters to supopsedly update my Steam's version of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (AC:S). And why do I know for sure that it was that? Because it's been years since I've forbade Ubi$oft Connect to update AC:S and amongst the "Corrupt Updte2 data before I stopped using that previous' Steam UI command it mentioned something about an "*steam.cloud.alibaba*" crap amongst one of its attemtps.

well I'll try it and see how it goes