If we did one of our weekly polls on which game platform/store is your favourite, I would be very surprised if anything other than a miniscule minority of readers selected the Epic Games Store. I barely ever use the thing and even I know it's not the most enjoyable experience. But there's a chance that might not be the case for much longer, as apparently there's a big update coming.
Judging by to Pirat_Nations's Unreal Fest slides on X, Epic is cooking up a complete redesign for its Launcher, and the big claims are that the "ground-up rebuild' will lead to a "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)." In other words, much quicker to boot up, either from the system tray or cold.
Hopefully—hopefully—that will mean the app itself is less laggy, too.
I thankfully have a small enough library on the platform that the lag isn't too bad, but I've heard some real terror tales from colleagues with bigger ...
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