They have likely moved to a framework that works cross platform as well which almost certainly have increased the framework size. I can see why it consumes more processing cycles as they have added a lot of animation to the UI, the notification bell keeps moving for instance. I will keep it off though given your feedback on resource usage. Interestingly disabling scaling made no difference for me visually, and luckily for me on 1440p the UI is only slightly bigger than before. With Steam scaling off, it's back to low 50W.I just updated now after reading your feedback. Did more testing, looks like the new scaling options is the culprit of the major power usage. With Steam text scaling ON, the text is too big and the Store page is off center (because of that dumb left side menu), and with it OFF, the text is way too small. Plus, the interface scaling is trash now. My system used to hover at 50W-54W (only ~2W over without Steam) at idle with Steam running (minimized to taskbar), now it's at 72W-78W.

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