Currently as I type into Google Chrome, steam is using 183,500 - 183,508 K of RAM 41 threads [I don't know much about threads, looking at the windows resource manager.] About 220,000 KB of RAM committed [Again, not sure what this is but committed doesn't sound to promising.] and a final good thing, uses on average 0.00% of my CPU.

I want most of that to go to Skyrim, even though I have 8 gig of RAM. Skyrim, just standing outside of Markarth uses 1,500,000 K of RAM, and I've seem it peak at 2,300,000 in hairy situations [I don't like to push my baby [my computer] too much yet, because I don't have an efficient cooling system[yet].].

I ask of you today, is there a way to start Skyrim without steam or with then close steam afterwords? I will not use a pirated .exe even if there are no options.

PS: Steam is doing nothing.

Close the main Steam window so that only the task bar icon remains and it should free memory, a lot of memory. Anyway, 200MB of RAM usage isn't really meaningful as long as this ram isn't touched by the program. It'll then get dumped in the swap file and barely not mentioned again.

The big Steam memory usage comes mostly from the web browser included in the main window used to display the store and most other pages. Once closed it's freed.

Please use this thread to discuss Steam

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1359009-unofficial-steamdrm-discussion-27/