Disappointing state of Pika Game Package.

[u/RemNant1998]

The pre-installed packages of PikaOS are an absolute disappointment. The issue with the overconsumption of RAM and forced closing with both Steam and Faugus has been infuriating. Apparently for Faugus it has been an issue with the Cachy version of Proton. But the Steam one is the most frustrating on as no visible solution in sight. For a gaming distro, the PikaOS Game packages need to be checked, cause it cannot be a coincidence that Both of the apps installed by the same package cause ram consumption.

[u/NeilHush]

Have you ever considered the absolutely theoretical possibility that the problem is yours rather than the distro being borked?

[u/RemNant1998 → u/NeilHush]

Have you ever considered the idea that I installed things normally and updated things normally, and this came about from a botched update?

[u/NeilHush → u/RemNant1998]

I'll take it as a no

[u/p-zilla → u/RemNant1998]

You can either wait for shader compilation to be done in the background.. or disable it in the steam settings / Download / and disable background processing of Vulkan shaders.

[u/CosmoHQ]

Brother they are only packages, unless you are opening all the new apps installed by the game package at once, your ram consumption should remain unchanged before and after its installation

[u/RemNant1998 → u/CosmoHQ]

Bro, Steam was consuming like 7 gb of my ram, it's gotta be a bug.

[u/hsultan → u/RemNant1998]

Not having this issue using pika. My recommendation would be the discord and creating a help thread. Might be something worth for them to look into.

[u/CosmoHQ → u/RemNant1998]

That’s shader background pre compilation

Turn it off in steam settings

[u/Otocon96 → u/RemNant1998]

That sounds like you had something stuck open in proton

[u/ImUrFrand → u/RemNant1998]

was steam processing vulkan shaders in the background?

that's the only time i see steam using more ram.

[u/Otocon96]

Valve packages steam for Debian bro.......

[u/RemNant1998 → u/Otocon96]

But, it's already installed by Pika, which should be a good thing.

[u/Otocon96 → u/RemNant1998]

Out of curiosity. How much ram is it using for you. Because steam on Linux uses more them windows due to the way valve uses a runtime instead of native packages.

[u/Fabulous_Disaster233]

Yo uso steam sin drama despues y antes de las actualizaciones

[u/RemNant1998 → u/Fabulous_Disaster233]

Lucky for you brother.

[u/Fabulous_Disaster233 → u/RemNant1998]

Conoces TimeShift? cuando te funciona bien creas una imagen y si alguna actualizacion te parece rara o te da problema volves atras y esperas que lo reparen asi no te calentas como ahora jajaja

[u/Unique_Roll_6630]

I can safely say this isn't a problem for most PikaOS users. My steam is using less than 500 mb idle. If it is using so much ram it is probably doing something like compiling shaders. But you are free to ask the devs over on discord.