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There is a setting to pause downloads while playing a game
I still had issues, even with that setting… Damn my terrible memory — why can I only remember that I had problems, not what the problems were? 😂
Was it CPU use/overheating? Steam will use all available resources doing the shader compilation, so when I start steam it jumps to around 100% use for a few minutes while compiling the shaders - I can use other programs in that time, but they're noticeably more laggy.