On machines where you start Steam manually in order to play a game, do you keep Steam running in the background after play session is over? Meaning if you no longer play any game for the moment, and just keep it running to be ready. Or do you close Steam, after the play session?


If I’m going to play a game then I open it. When I’m done playing then it gets closed. Same as almost all other programs. I keep the essential programs running. Essential means drivers, my program that randomly chooses a wallpaper, etc