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Forum discussion tagged with Steam.
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    Question Help troubleshooting games crashing at launch

    Ive recently noticed an issue when trying to open a good number of games. The game opens the initial app window then immediately closes usually with no crash report. On occasion, the game will get a few seconds into loading up and play a bit of music or spin the loading screen a bit, but then...
  2. Fryrok

    [SOLVED] I'm unable to reinstall Steam because of undeletable files ?

    I uninstalled steam recently from the add/remove programs tool. I wanted to install it again but when I ran the installer and indicated the "c/program files (86)/Steam" directory I was using before, I received a notification that the folder must be empty to install. I tried to go and delete the...
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    Question What happens if you tell a lie to Steam Support?

    Hello, I have a weird question, or maybe a stupid question. What if for example an user told Steam Support that he/she sold or bought the account as a joke or a lie. Will he or she get the account back if the user provide proof that he or she is the original owner? I have seen this somewhere...
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    Question Sudden Massive System Slow Down - Need help identifying the culprit

    System Info : Laptop : Lenovo LOQ CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, 3801 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) GPU : RTX 4060 Memory : 16 GB (8 x2) Context : System freezes up randomly after starting download of some file on steam. Sometimes the cursor freezes too -...
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    Question Steam voucher wrongly bought - how to sell

    Hello everybody. I m sorry for bothering with this out of thread topic but I ve bought some steam voucher s up to 140 eur but the supposed beneficiary told he is not longer playing games because of time shortage. How can I sell them? In. Many second hand items web site (Amazon, eBay ...
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    Question XBox Controller guide button and Steam ?

    I have an xbox controller and until recently, when I pressed the guide button, steam would open in a big picture, but now it doesn't work. I only hear the sound of opening steam. What can I do?
  7. scuflol

    Question Why is my steam download speed so much faster than the download speeds for other game launchers?

    I got a new pc recently and my steam download speed went from 5-8mb/s to now 80-90mb/s. But for other launchers like Epic Games or Ubisoft, my mb/s is only around 8-10mb/s. My old pc's download speed was around 4-8mb/s for all launchers. I believe my new motherboard supports wifi 6 or...
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    Question Disk usage and Steam Write errors ?

    Working with a brand new Samsung Evo 870, and this pc has had this issue across multiple storage devices. When downloading a game through steam, and ONLY through steam, it will go well for about 15% of the download. After about that much, (It's never a consistent amount) the disk usage steadily...
  9. willyburns

    Question Cyberpunk 2077 crashing as soon as the splash screen starts?

    This is a brand new build and a fresh install of the game that was working flawlessly for maybe 10 hours, and yet today after booting through the CDPR frontend it loads and I get the distorted Cyberpunk logo with music and then it crashes with an error report. I have tried DDU in SAFE mode and...
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    Question Disk activity while decompressing

    For the past few months, I've been encountering unusual problems when downloading games on Steam. Despite having a 1 gigabit per second (gbps) network connection, Steam's download speed consistently remains at 50-60 megabytes per second (MB/s). This discrepancy doesn't seem to be related to my...
  11. Rakibulhassanrabby

    Question Steam download shuts off WiFi access to all other WiFi devices ?

    So I am having quite a peculiar issue here. So when I download something from Steam let's say a game, it downloads that game but all the other devices that are running on the same wifi lose their internet connection. I have never seen anything quite like this. It's important to mention that if...
  12. Nexon 5

    Question Odd BSOD with Steam ?

    Hello there! I hope you guys are doing fine! Been running into an extremely odd problem lately. My PC seems to be BSODing whenever I download SQUAD from Steam (hasn't happened yet with other games, I think). I'm already 20GB into the download but it's hard to continue it any further since it'll...
  13. dam30___

    Question Chrome and Steam really slow after installing new GPU ?

    Hey guys, I bought a new GPU (Galax 1650 EX) and I noticed that now my PC takes more time to launch Steam and it´s almost impossible to navigate through Chrome tabs if I´m downloading a large file. The system works fine and the game performance is okay as expected, but the only weird thing is...
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    Question How do I Allocate more RAM to Games?

    Hi, so recently I purchased the new Forza Motorsport game on Steam, and after doing performance tests, I realized that absolutely nothing is limiting my FPS, yet the FPS dances around 90. CPU is always below 10%, GPU is also below 10% (and VRam is at 4GB), RAM is holding solid at 14GB without...
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    Question Steam and game keeps crashing a few seconds after or on startup after changing to SSD

    My specs z97k i7-4790k rtx 2070 16gb ram corsair tx850w Before, the only SSD I had on this computer was for the boot drive, I played all the games on HDD. I have 2 HDDs on this, one for installed files another for storage. I decided to buy an SSD to improve loading times and such and to play...
  16. kardinalfm84

    Question PC freezes when closing Steam games installed on external SSD ?

    Hey guys, since recently my PC permanently freezes when closing steam games running from my external SSD. During gameplay, everything is fine and the problem only occurs when running games from the external SSD on steam. If i run the games internally or externally from another client like GOG...
  17. PaPies

    Question Slow Steam Downloads, I can temporarily fix the problem /w Video

    CPU: 10700k CPU cooler: 360ML AIO Coolermaster Motherboard: z490 Gaming X Gigabyte Ram: 16x2 3200Mhz SSD/HDD: 4SSD/2HDD GPU: RTX 3080 PSU: V750 Gold Coolermaster fully modular OS: Windows 11
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    Question Computer freezes when steam launches

    for the past week or two my PC has been freezing shortly after startup. after finally figuring how to boot in safe mode(why did they have to change it from just pressing f8 or whatever key to that convoluted way) and disabling all the startup programs I seemed to have fixed it. skip foward to 2...
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    Question Accidently ran a .SCR and found malware, is there any more around?

    Hi, I accidently ran a .SCR sent to me via an artstation message. After a about 2 weeks my Steam was compromised and i was aware of my mistake after my items were sold on steam marketplace. Changed my passwords and Malwarebytes picked up a few of the viruses and removed them. Just wondering if...
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    [SOLVED] FPS drop in some games ?

    Hello, I bought a pre-built PC in december and have had some trouble with certain games but nothing that could not be resolved with some tweaks like turning off steam/geforce experience/EA/ubisoft connect overlay, setting the texture filtering from quality to performance from nvidia control...
  21. Camfred30

    Question Rocket League overlay bug - - - - grey circle ?

    my friend has this weird issue on whenever he enters freeplay on rocket league he gets this grey circle overlay and it changes size whenever he changes resolution, want to know how to get rid of it. cannot find anything online over it. ive attatched a link to what it looks like. thank you
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    Question Adapter Of Controller (Left in back of PC)

    Hello, So I bought an Xbox 360 unbranded controller from eBay to play my favorite racing game on PC but I was wondering If I could leave the adapter of the controller plugged in at the back and if I turn off the pc will the adapter turn off as well and if I turn it on again will the adapter turn...
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    Question steam and blizzard downloas speed max 1.2MB/s

    Hi, i have a problem since last friday where my download speed on battle.net and steam are only reaching as high as 1.2MB/s. when i download on chrome, i get almost 50MB/s and i have a 1gigabit network at home, that at the moment of writing gets up to 580Mb/s. i already tried using another...
  24. ReHack

    Question Bug or Bad System? (Judgment on steam only getting around 30 FPS)

    The game uses DX12 as the API, weirdly enough I get the same FPS on any setting (extra low-high at 1080p) I get around 23 fps - 32 fps (23 on crowdy areas, 30s on less crowdy areas) , yes the framecap is on 60 , I only get 60s on the main menu and the pause menus, I get around 40s on cutscenes...
  25. unchada

    Question GTA V registers twice ?

    i downloaded gta v from steam and now in storage part of windows settings it registers twice, once as a separate app and once as integrated steam storage. like steam is showing 175 gb which adds up to gta and other games but then there is the gta v app that registers 109 gb can anyone tell me...
  26. VermilionNeko

    Question Can’t use PS4 controller on Windows 11 ?

    Hi I’m really stuck with this. I recently bought a new gaming laptop over Christmas and very recently started setting it up. However, one thing I can’t get working is my PS4 controller. I’ve yet to try my Xbox 360 wired controller, so once I have, I’ll report back about that. The PS4 controller...
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    Question Low SSD write speed when downloading via Steam

    Good afternoon! Could anyone explain to me, why I have low write speed with SSD when I am downloading a game in Steam? I have an internet connection with stable speed of 1500+ Mbits/s. So, since I have an SSD, I expect a downloading speed of the game via Steam of about 1500/8 ~ 190 MBytes/s...
  28. aden.anderson2001

    [SOLVED] Making an app without proxy settings use system proxy on windows 11

    Hello. I'm hosting a connection from my phone to my router using an app called everyproxy. Therefor with whatever device i connect to that router i get that IP and port. I have set my windows settings on my PC to use that proxy, through windows settings. My phone-hosted IP is detected on my...
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    Question Is my computer limiting my download speeds?

    I pay for a 500mbps internet plan and I test about as much on Speedtest.net. My download speeds on Steam are about 20mb/s, on the Xbox app 5mb/s on Epic Games it's about 10mb/s. My friend with a gigabit connection and a considerably stronger PC (RTX 3060, I'm not sure about the CPU but it...
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    Question Can't boot with two sticks of RAM

    I have an Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming that i recently bought a 5700x to update my Performance on the cheap. I upgraded to 6042 that supports 5000 series and now i can only boot with one stick of Memory on the Board. It won't boot at all with two sticks in. Things I've tried Tried another CPU...
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    Question Flight sim downloads at extremely slow speeds compared to steam

    I am getting an average of 30mbps when downloading something on steam and when i try downloading flight sim i get 3mbits/s https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985664689260363777/1025470910054027274/unknown.png...
  32. Zxya

    Question Drives disappearing after opening/downloading any game.

    This started happening when I reinstalled windows because my ram got damaged a year ago, i tried playing games and a lot of the time they crash and the drive disappears, this first happened with steam and now almost every game. i need help.
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    [SOLVED] Moving Steam Folder to Reduce File Size to Copy Drive

    I'm looking to purchase a 1TB SSD to replace my old and slow 2TB HDD as my system drive. Problem is, because it's only 1TB, I need to reduce my current hard drive's used storage (currently around 1.7TB) to 1TB in order to copy the drive. In order to do this quick and easy, I figured I'd simply...
  34. NoobxCamper

    [SOLVED] Asus PCIe Card Disconnecting When Downloading

    I keep having this problem with my Asus PCIe wifi card that keeps disconnecting me if I am downloading any large file(s) after maybe 5-10 minutes of downloading. However, this only happens when I am connected to the 5ghz network, and works fine on the 2.4ghz network, albeit slower. I updated all...
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    Question New Western Digital internal hard drive crashes everything it touches

    A friend and I were installing a new hard drive into his computer, and once we started installing games (after formatting it) every platform that wants to install a game onto the new volume crashes. We've managed to install destiny 2, which works, but installing Valorant only causes riot games...
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    Question Storage SSD stopped working for Steam ?

    Hey, As the title says last night when i tried to play "Dead by Daylight" my game froze and crashed. Trying to play it again i got an error saying "an error occurred while updating invalid platform". I verified the file and updated it. When i reopened steam all my games in the same location...
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    Question Steam 'Not Enough Disk Space' Problem

    Hey i was downloading elden ring yesterday, turned off pc at %98 after that it was saying no space. Steamlibrary/steamapps/common/EldenRing is empty but there is a elden ring on steamapps/downloading so how can i make the steam see my elden ring on that file or any help ...
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    [SOLVED] PS5 controller issue

    So i recently bought a ps5 controller and i wanted to use it on my pc but i tried a whole bunch of cables and none of them worked so i ended up getting a bluetooth adapter which ended up causing a lot more problems but somehow it kind of works as in my windows settings say my controller is...
  39. willyburns

    [SOLVED] Steam Link not displaying image on Now TV app or WOW Presents web video?

    Hi, while using Steam Link and trying to watch Rupaul's Drag Race on my TV downstairs I can see the video playing my PC monitor but not on my TV; however, the sound is fine and I can see the image playing in the preview thumbnails when I hover my cursor over the play bar on the video. YouTube...
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    Question (WEIRD) Download speeds for Steam stuttering, not using full gigabyte connection

    Hello, So my Steam downloads are taking forever and keep jumping the speed around like crazy. So far, I have cleared my Steam DL cache, changed DL servers, uncapped DL bandwidth, tested my external SSD for read/write speeds, set the priority of Steam in task manager, and have even gone as far as...