Do steam games not run as smooth as retail?

The topic title says it all. A few of my steam games seem to have so hiccups every now and then, the FPS seem to very now and then. My most recent purchase riddick dark athena runs like crap, I know its nt my pc I am maxing Mirrors edge and can run crysis NP. I have noticed slow downs in my steam version of Fallout3 goty that i didnt notice in my hard copy reg fallout3 game as well.

The topic title says it all. A few of my steam games seem to have so hiccups every now and then, the FPS seem to very now and then. My most recent purchase riddick dark athena runs like crap, I know its nt my pc I am maxing Mirrors edge and can run crysis NP. I have noticed slow downs in my steam version of Fallout3 goty that i didnt notice in my hard copy reg fallout3 game as well.

Advid-Gamer

they should run just fine, and not any worse than the retail version. I mean steam itself doesn't exactly take up much of your hardwares resources. I've never had the problems you are talking about. Have you tried reinstalling the gams in question? Just do it overnight when you are asleep so that you won't wait all day for them.

I have never had issues with games lagging because of steam. I really like it and have gotten all recent purchases off of steam (some off D2D if not offered by steam at the time)

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]

The topic title says it all. A few of my steam games seem to have so hiccups every now and then, the FPS seem to very now and then. My most recent purchase riddick dark athena runs like crap, I know its nt my pc I am maxing Mirrors edge and can run crysis NP. I have noticed slow downs in my steam version of Fallout3 goty that i didnt notice in my hard copy reg fallout3 game as well.

Sparticus247

they should run just fine, and not any worse than the retail version. I mean steam itself doesn't exactly take up much of your hardwares resources. I've never had the problems you are talking about. Have you tried reinstalling the gams in question? Just do it overnight when you are asleep so that you won't wait all day for them.

[QUOTE="Sparticus247"]

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]

The topic title says it all. A few of my steam games seem to have so hiccups every now and then, the FPS seem to very now and then. My most recent purchase riddick dark athena runs like crap, I know its nt my pc I am maxing Mirrors edge and can run crysis NP. I have noticed slow downs in my steam version of Fallout3 goty that i didnt notice in my hard copy reg fallout3 game as well.

Advid-Gamer

they should run just fine, and not any worse than the retail version. I mean steam itself doesn't exactly take up much of your hardwares resources. I've never had the problems you are talking about. Have you tried reinstalling the gams in question? Just do it overnight when you are asleep so that you won't wait all day for them.

Yeah...it's just some games run better than others, and run worse than they really should. I've never played Riddick, but others who have here seem to say that it runs bad. I mean look at Oblivion, that game will always stutter a little bit no matter what you play it on. Smoothe most of the time yes, but it has it's issues. Fallout 3 acted better though.

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"][QUOTE="Sparticus247"]

they should run just fine, and not any worse than the retail version. I mean steam itself doesn't exactly take up much of your hardwares resources. I've never had the problems you are talking about. Have you tried reinstalling the gams in question? Just do it overnight when you are asleep so that you won't wait all day for them.

Sparticus247

Yeah...it's just some games run better than others, and run worse than they really should. I've never played Riddick, but others who have here seem to say that it runs bad. I mean look at Oblivion, that game will always stutter a little bit no matter what you play it on. Smoothe most of the time yes, but it has it's issues. Fallout 3 acted better though.

There should be absolutely no difference between steam version and retail versions.

This is very true, especially since it uses a lot of CPU (Especially the AI) and it can only use one on the pc, so you can have a quad core, it'll only use one. Horrible coding.

They actually run better on steam since they defragment the games, they run better if people dont defrag once in a while, but if they do then they run the same.