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If you own your games in Steam, then you'll need it open. There is honestly little to no performance gain you'll have by having both open assuming you have decent a computer with plently of memory to spare.
@Eisen: Hmm I might not understand your question, but why would one assume that there would be a performance gain if you had a steam and Xfire like programs open at the same time?
I would assume that a performance gain would occur when they were not open?
I may-be having some trouble in understanding your question or I didn't really make my question clear.
Basically, unless you're playing games with problems with Xfire (Oblivion used to flip shits over Xfire, but I think it was fixed), you can keep it open with zero, or damn close to zero, decrease in performance. Steam is built to be versatile and lightweight, and it hardly effects the performance in anything either.
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