How do I stop my computer from shitting itself when opening steam?

[limpid radish]

The only solution I've found is to disable shader pre-caching, but that hasn't helped. It still practically freezes for the better part of a minute.

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'f' for filter | search 'fossilize_replay'

[limpid radish]

It is hammering the drive, peaked at 5 gibibytes a second

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