Steam

Hello, i am having a problem with downloading on steam. Ever since i built my PC my steam downloading was going very slow. Whenever i download using other launchers, my speeds are Fine, but steam just does'nt work. I have watched videos, and none seem to work, so i come here for support. The...

For awhile now my monitor (AOC Q27G2G4) has suddenly been going black for about 3 seconds while I'm playing games, and happens consistently whenever I open up a games store page on the steam app. The frequency of the black-out varies from game to game, but it seems to be the worst in Tabletop...

Hello Tom's Hardware forum! I'm in DESPERATE need of help regarding a completely bizarre problem Timeline of Events: While playing CS:GO, my keyboard disconnects and reconnects every 5-20 seconds. (Corsair K95) Later on, I get a Disk Write Error when updating games. I thought this may be a...

Specs are 5900x 3080ti 32gb 3200mhz ram M.2 Sn850 SSD with 650gb spare 1000w evga supernova PSU Asus x570 e gaming Windows 10 So I've had my build for around 2 months now. I've been gaming sporadically whenever I have time. Mainly playing Arma 3, Warzone and Forza horizon 5. I've got a decent...

Hi chaps, Running Windows 10 64-bit here on a Dell Optiplex 790 PC. I have just installed a second-hand MSI GTX 1050TI. I use an old TV connected to the graphics card via the Display Port connector. When I am using a media player, MAME or a web site such as YouTube there is no sound coming...

Hey! I have been dealing with this issue for months at this point, tried multiple different things to fix it with no luck what so ever. Battle.net, wallpaperengine.exe, SteelSeries GG and discord wont open/work correctly for some reason. Battle.net is stuck in an infinite refresh loop, discord...

Been seeing this issue posted around the internet since <2015 with no fixes. Unable to tab out of any game, then re-enter. It gives a black screen, then a flash of what the game is, then throws you back out to your desktop. Have the same settings I used to use on my old system: Perform scaling...

I recently read an article about "bloodystealer" and got to thinking I should better secure my Steam account. It seems the universal answer (short of not downloading cracked games or using questionable links) is to use Steam Guard, with the 2FA using an app on your phone. I have an iPhone11...

Hi, I've got a two monitor setup and every single program I use regularly opens on the monitor and location I closed it at - only Steam (usually on second screen, not maximised) keeps opening maximised on the primary monitor since a few weeks ago (curiously the Steam friends window remembers its...

My Audio will be set to a certain level, then when I tab into steam or steam game, it quiets everything. I have tried to fix it in communications, didn't work. I have done just about everything suggested to fix it. Upon recording a reference video, it seems that OBS does not share the same...

Its happening in practically every game I play, day of defeat, left 4 dead, half life, counter strike. Whenever im in game, whether it be online of single player, and i press the "push to talk key" normally "F" the game freezes for one second, and i have no idea why. I've updated all my drivers...

So I already know the title is basically the answer but this is different. I used to be able to download many things at once. I reinstalled windows 10 home edition on my ssd. When windows 10 was on my hdd I could download steam games and watch youtube fine. But now when I'm downloading from...

I want to install Steam on Kali linux and play csgo (dont ask me why) and got this error Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6 but i installed architecture i386 soooooo... i dont now how this error occured （；へ：）

Hi guys, I've a problem with Bioshock 2 rem, when i click to start the game, appear a message with this error: 0xc000007b. I tryed to reinstall Visuaal c++ and i tryed to reinstall the game but nothing. The first time, the game crash at the start, now appear this error message. Anyone can...

I downloaded gta5 on my pc and it just automatically pauses and stated that it has write disk error. Could my hdd be the culprit? I tried running "CHKDSK" in cmd and this is what it showed C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is CJ SSD. WARNING! /F...

So I have a pretty nice system. Ryzen 7 5800X on a Asus Crosshair VIII Hero mobo paired with 16gb of 3200 CL16 RAM. And to top it all off, I managed to snag a 6900XT for MSRP. All this to say that I should not have any issues running anything. Here is the issue: specific games will refuse to...

Hello, I am lookong to gain advice. I am wanting to go back to school for my masters degree in animation. I experienced a lot of issues with my laptop supplied by my school while earning my bachelors. Using programs such as Autodesk Maya. Zbrush. And several other things that require some major...

Hey, guys I just recently went from Intel to AMD and I've encountered one problem so far. My steam read and redownloaded all my games from my SSD's since I transferred them to the new build. But I'm having one major issue, steam is using 0% disk usage when downloading new games. My download...

Hi. As I said in the title, my internet connection dies after seconds of starting a download on Steam or Epic Games, having to restart my modem/router. This problem started when I changed my desktop PC (sold my older one and built a new one which has a 2.5 Gbit integrated adapter). The weird...

All steam icons on desktop are blank after reinstalling windows 10 So I got a new mobo and cpu and reinstalled my windows. I have 6 total drives and obviously the steam file on the C: drive got deleted during the reinstall. I reinstalled Steam and when I go to put shortcuts on my desktop from...

I'm trying to install some Steam games to a new PC. I have Windows installed on the C drive, an M.2 SSD. In the program files I have a Steam file made, however when I attempt to install a new steam directory there it says that the file is read-only. So I attempt to make the file read-only but it...

Hey everyone, this is my first post. I've been playing pc games for a long time and I suddenly am experiencing this sudden, odd FPS problem. I don't know how to fix it. I've been trying for about a week with different methods. For example, I typically I get around a consistent 400-600 fps in...

My system: I5 9400f 24 gigs of RAM 2400mhz gtx 1080ti Samsung SSD 860 Games like CS:GO and Forza 4 have this tiny-tiny stutters. I even enabled gpu monitor Forza offers and it shows that gpu usage doesn't even go up to 60%. So it's clearly no gpu problem. I had micro stutter even with fall...

My computer fully crashes (No BSOD, just straight to power off) within 15-20 minutes of launching Destiny 2. The power button flashes and I have to unplug the power until the capacitors clear before I can turn it back on. I don't have this issue with any other game so I'm quite confused...

I'm trying to get some space on my SSD so that windows will stop moaning about there being no space left to do anything (in fairness the 120Gb SSD has about 1.5Gb remaining). I've downloaded WinDirStat to try and sus out where all the space is being used, and on of the largest single cells of...

Hello, and good holidays you Mighty Brains! I ran into a weird problem I've never encountered before. I play CP2077 on the PC, on Steam, and have it installed in my C: drive which is Samsung SSD 860 Evo 500GB, with 40GB left on it. It is confirmed on the properties for the drive that it is an...

Hi all, I've just built my new pc and I'm trying to get my games from origin and steam over to it from my old pc. Will my game progress still be there on my new pc if I were to redownload the games from their respective launchers on that pc? For example, if I download Battlefront 2 from my...

As the title says any time I download from steam (AND ONLY STEAM) my pc wifi starts to degrade and eventually crash. Forcing me to disconnect and reconnect. I was able to download both nvidia drivers, and windows updates without issue (though the windows update came with issues of its own) but...

Hi all, I was pointed towards the below template regarding request for PC upgrade advice - would appreciate your input. Current gaming build Approximate Purchase Date: no rush, but within next few month Budget Range: approx £300 on top of whatever i make selling the current components...

Hi everyone! I'm soon getting a new gaming PC, I've decided on two 1tb m.2 SSD drives for storage. The questions I have today are about where to store each kind of data: OS, Apps/Games (Now referred to as Install), and Data (Documents etc). It's the apps and games ("Install"), that I am...

While on my steam account I got a message saying I got a free CS:GO skin with a link, I clicked the link and it said use your steam login to get your skin, I put the login info in, and it said sorry try again later, and after that messages were coming from my account getting sent to all my...

This is starting to drive me crazy now! let’s start. When Microsoft Flight Simulator released initially, like many others, I was trying to debug and the improve performance. I first reinstalled Windows 10 Pro onto my SSD. This didn’t cause any problems I believe. Then I used DDU (in safe mode)...

My issue has been plauging my PC for a long while now. During games my PC graphics drivers stop responding and the game crashes to a grey screen while audio still plays in the background. During fullscreen the game crashes and I need to restart the PC, on windowed games it takes me back to the...

When I load up CSGO on my PC, I have a problem. Whenever I move my mouse, only when in cursor mode (so in any menu, or basically anything in the game that isn't actual gameplay), the game freezes. And the game remains frozen until i stop moving my mouse. I've tried basically everything with...

Hey! I'm asking here for my friend (as he isn't that experienced with pc's): He recently bought the new Microsoft Flight Simulator on Steam. While installing the launcher onto his HDD on Steam, a disk write error occurred. After continueing the download until it installed, the next problem was...

Hello, I want to install my steam games but everytime I try to install any game, it starts the download at about 30 mbps and it almost instantly drops to 7 mbps. My internet speed is 400mbps, so that means I should get about 30-40 mbps real download. I've tried: 1. Change download region...

So i'm using my pc as always one day i wanted to change my lock screen wallpaper and it didn't change same as the profile picture, tried searching a solution did everything from gpedit disabling the "force locksreen wallpaper" to clean booting, then steam and gefroce experience and teamviewer...

Hi, recently I started having issues with steam being able to download games but not able to access my inventory or go online. For some reason steam won't work on my internet (neither on chrome, steam app or steam client) but if I use my mobile data it works normally, now I called my ISP and...

Hi everyone! I've been having this weird issue with my graphics driver, and I can't tell what the issue could actually be. Whenever I boot any game, it either doesn't open or it throws some generic Direct3D error. Booting COD5, I get "DirectX has encountered an unrecoverable error" View...

Wondering if theres a way on steam to bypass the 5 minutes logout timer for shared steam games so me and my brother can play Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 together which requires you to be connected to online services