Steam and Origin

Computer0304 · 17 Apr 2015

Can you have both Steam and Origin on a computer? Do they possibly conflict with each other or not?
Thanks. :)

RoasterMen · 17 Apr 2015

Yes and no they don't conflict each other. I have both installed before and it's fine.

Computer0304 · 17 Apr 2015

Ok, thanks. Can they both be running in the background for notifications?

RoasterMen · 17 Apr 2015

Sure :)

MrNeeds · 17 Apr 2015

I have mine running most of the time, but origin is a resource hog, I can't even play a youtube video on origin because it's so slow.

NimbleNeil · 17 Apr 2015

They work together on a machine no problem, best to run one at a time , I can't imagine any situation where you'd be playing an origin game at the same time as a steam one.
Steam is definitely the superior platform, Origin is used only for battlefield 3 personally.

Computer0304 · 17 Apr 2015

Yeah, I only use Origin for Origin only EA games. Thanks guys for the replies. :)

Boozad · 18 Apr 2015

NimbleNeil said:

TI can't imagine any situation where you'd be playing an origin game at the same time as a steam one.

I regularly play BF4 in Windowed Mode with Football Manager minimised to Taskbar.

boogieboy · 18 Apr 2015

You can have Steam, Origin, Uplay or any other game clients together and they won't conflict with each other at all even if you have logged in all of the clients at the same time.

:)