SteamTracking Alternatives

SteamTracking reviews and mentions

• high ping on closest server only in csgo
  1 project | /r/GlobalOffensive | 24 Apr 2023

  If you want to test ping and routing directly to the closest Valve server site, the IPs are publicly available.

• Why is Steam still stuck on 32-bit in 2022?
  1 project | /r/Steam | 19 Dec 2022

  The 32-bit version of Steam works, so they’ve not bothered to compile 64-bit binaries for 64-bit versions of Windows and Linux. There’s already a mechanism in the Steam client updater for delivering different binaries depending on version of the OS and 32/64 bit, take a look at the client manifest and note the variations of “bins_cef_win32” for “win10-64”, “win7”, etc. So, it wouldn’t be a lot of work to distribute 64-bit versions of the other Steam client binaries because they could use the same mechanism to deliver them.

• the classic EU server problem
  1 project | /r/GlobalOffensive | 25 Oct 2022

  Quick bit of google-fu led me to this https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/master/Random/NetworkDatagramConfig.json

• TF2 update for 7/27/22
  2 projects | /r/tf2 | 27 Jul 2022

  The new cluster has been up for a couple of months already, but seeing as it only just now got its string it's worth mentioning anyway: the EU West server cluster (as it's known in Dota 2 and CS:GO) has been relocated from Luxembourg to Frankfurt, Germany

• Steam slow on M1
  1 project | /r/Steam | 22 Jun 2022

  It really does suck that they've not put out an Apple Silicon / arm64 update, I'm sure that just switching the Intel version of Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) in the Steam Helper for an arm64 would help a lot. They put out multiple versions of the web helper and CEF binaries for Windows so that they can support 32-bit Windows 7 as well as newer 64-bit versions of Windows, but according to the Steam Hardware Survey, only 0.12% of Steam users use 32-bit Windows 7, while 0.89% of Steam users are using Apple Silicon CPUs (40.7% of Macs on Steam are using Apple Silicon CPUs, 2.2% of Steam users are on macOS, 2.2 * 40.7/100 = 0.89)

• Excellent job Steam, perfect spacing
  1 project | /r/Steam | 10 Jun 2022

  Steam itself draws everything in its own windows, including the 'traffic light' buttons which are weirdly spaced in the OP's picture. They're actually TGA images distributed with Steam, not part of the OS.

• It appears that Doug Lombardi, Valve's "Vice President of Marketing" who occasionally provided statements to the press, has left Valve. Kaci Aitchison succeeds Doug as Valve's new press contact for inquiries (as of sometime earlier this year or late last).
  1 project | /r/DotA2 | 29 Mar 2022

  Real answer: the SteamTracking repo (not to be confused with GameTracking, which facilitates and provides rapid teardowns) has a list of URLs it keeps eyes on, one of those being Valve's people page. Its frequency used to provide updates as quick as 15 minutes, but these days it's been relaxed to around once an hour, a short time after the top of the hour.

• Does anyone have this problem where an unknown user sign into your account the same time as you?
  1 project | /r/Steam | 17 Nov 2021

  OS type have next values:

• Steam controller firmware
  1 project | /r/SteamController | 9 Nov 2021

  I've managed to find older versions, but not that Bluetooth BLE firmware version. It seems to have never been included in the firmware.vdf https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/master/Random/ControllerFirmware.vdf

• Steam Store preview on the Steam Deck (called Tablet Mode)
  1 project | /r/pcgaming | 30 Oct 2021

  xPaw (guy from twitter and SteamDB owner) is a data miner, so he tracks every Steam's API update, he even makes it public, so anyone could also compile and do the same thing from his screenshot.

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