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Steam won't allow me to download any games to my HDD and won't automatically start Wallpaper Engine without exiting Steam and then running via Admin which is a bit annoying. Is there any way I can make it so Steam always runs as Admin?

so i tried opening pubg today to play it and it said it wasnt installed, so i was like this is odd. i have had this problem before but not like this. normally when i clicked install it would recognise that the game was already installed and just verify the game files again. but this time when i...

I've tried and tried but for some reason my Steam games keep crashing. I have updated my drivers, checked, double-checked and triple checked that the connections going to my motherboard are secure. I have updated windows, updated my GPU drivers MULTIPLE times, re-installed Windows, checked the...

Hi all, Recently purchased a Netgear Powerline 1000 adaptor, and it causes the router to disconnect from the Internet in specific situations (troubleshooting gives me the error "default gateway unavailable"). So far, it only happens when I try to do a multi-threaded downloads; e.g. a...

Have you played the famous breathtaking round based shooter game? I'm talking about CS:GO the record breaking first person shooter in Esports. Our baby CS:GO is currently having a bad time experiencing with hackers :cautious: The players are leaving it because Hackers are everywhere! From the...

So I recently swapped over to Linux on my main gaming machine and I noticed something peculiar.... Steam downloads significantly faster (actually caps out my gigabit speeds in most cases) on Linux than on Windows. For reference, I typically have burst speeds of about 55MB/s on Windows and then...

Hello Guys, now i have windows 7 installed on my PC and I was thinking about dual booting windows 7 and windows 10 but my question here that I got about 200GBs+ games installed (on steam) so I wanted to ask is it possible that they work on windows 10 ? while I installed them on windows 7...

ok so i know that you do not have to use ds4 windows when playing a steam game with a ps4 controller because steam has playstation config but ds4 windows is the only way to get my controller to work with steam. Because when trying to connect the controller to steam and using playstation config...

I just got a pretty fun simple game (Ultimate Racing 2D) from Steam and have some simple tweaks I want to make to it. Car color changes, AI driver names, etc. Nothing too complicated. The problem I'm finding is that I can't properly open, let alone edit, the data files. Primarily "data.win"...

Specs: ASUS Z170-E - Up to date BIOS version 3801 Intel i7 6700 3.4Ghz 8-core - Coolermaster Hyper EVO 212 air cooler MSI Geforce GTX 1060 6gb - Up to date driver ver. 445.75 16GB RAM 2133MHz (2 8gb DIMMS in slot A2 & B2 on mobo) Samsung 850 EVO in m.2 250GB capacity WD Caviar Black 2TB 7200RPM...

Hello there, sorry if this is a nooby question, but I want to see if it's possible to install some games on Steam on an external drive since I don't want them eating space on my main disk? And if so, would it be possible to play them on other computers with steam logged on to the same account...

So before today, everything was running perfectly other than I was getting some pagefile BSoDs here and there. My friend recommended I turn off pagefile settings to prevent that BSoD from happening so I did that and I haven't had any problems until today when every time I try to load into a game...

Hello, I recently built my own PC with pretty high end parts. I can run Call of Duty Modern Warfare at Ultra and High graphics no problem. However, whenever I try to play a game on Steam, the game will have intermittent freezing. I have tried everything I've seen on multiple different forums...

Alright, i broke my phone, i lost steam auth guard, i changed my number so i cant do anything at this point... i know that steam gave me recovery codes, i didn't really expect my phone to break..

Steam Is Saying I Dont Have Siege Installed But When I Go Into My Files On My PC It Just Straight Up Crashes. I Was Playing Fine Earlier And Then me And My Friend Decided To Reset Our PC And Do Some Overclocking. And I Overclocked My GPU And Launched GTA And It Crashed. So It Was A Classic...

My computer is by no means a bad one. I have a ryzen 2600, 16gb of ram, and a 960 which is the only thing that is dated. Ill be playing then it freezes in the middle of the game. No audio either after that. I run the game well over 100 fps. Ive been comp banned twice because of this. It takes...

So, sorry if this has already been asked or if it doesnt suit this sub, but ive been having some recent troubles after setting up a new system. I doubt the specs will be useful but can definitely supply them if needed. So my problem(s) is/are, ive been having a couple games crash on me for...

I have AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. A couple days ago, I was playing Cities Skylines and out of know where my screen flashed all green, then to black and then my monitor shown No Input or No Signal. The only way I'm able to bypass it is to turn off the PC via tower (which I absolutely hate to do, I...

So i was playing with my friend Rocket League earlier when the party was suddenly destroyed. We didn't mind and went on. The very next match we had like 200 ping (we usually have around 30). Then all of a sudden we both got disconnected from rl, Steam altogether and Discord. The network didn't...

Hello! Im just gonna jump straight into it: My router is downstairs (two story house), im with Virgin Media. Upstairs is where my room + my gaming PC is, so I have started using a powerline adapter in order to get ethernet access to the network and internet. On my other PC downstairs...

When downloading a game on steam or even on the Microsoft store, it will say something like 20Mbps but then when I look at the progress bar and see the "[insert amount of Gbs downloaded so far]/File size" I see that the amount of gigabytes downloaded so far is definitely not going up as fast as...

All of a sudden i cant play most steam games, Halo, Rainbow, or Dayz as i this error. They are The code execution cannot proceed because CONCRT140.ddl was not found or the same message saying i'm missing "MSVCP140.dll". If anyone has a fix for this it would be well appreciated. Thanks in...

Ever since I installed new hardware (CPU, RAM, MB) I've been having this artifacting in Steam, GOG, FF:Online launcher, Stellaris launcher, Minecraft launcher and various Edge setup windows but not Origin and uplay. Reinstalling nvidia drivers fixed the issue in Steam only. I have no other...

Hello, a couple of days ago my pc started freezing after booting. Most of the time it would happen after opening Steam or sometimes after having multiple applications opened. Ctrl alt delete also wont work when frozen but my cursor moves and caps lock key is frozen. Any solutions?

I am having a strange, seemingly unique issue with Steam, and their support is not doing anything but sending me form letters. I've done all the basic troubleshooting I can manage (reboot, reinstall Steam, clearing cache, changing download server, checking firewall and anti virus, trying an...

so recently i changed my wifi usb adapter to a PCI wifi adapter, i can browse the internet and download stuff on steam faster now but when i tried to play csgo and search matchmaking suddenly my internet crashed and my downloads also stopped on my pc, but when i'm back on the desktop again the...

I would like to know why after i bought a steam controller, my order was cancelled If they ran out of stock then the system should have registered that before they kept selling items they dont have for two days Also want to know where my refund is at

Hi there, I have an odd question regarding installing games with an external DVD drive. So I already found out that it is possible but some games require you to have the disc in while playing and that won't work over an USB connection so my question is this; Is there an way to play the game...

Hi there, Does anyone know if I buy a $20 Steam Gift Card on Amazon like this: https://www.amazon.com/Steam-Gift-Card-20-pc/dp/B00FN50BYC/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Steam+wallet&qid=1574875290&sr=8-2&th=1 will it be redeemable on a Steam account created in the EU? I'd like to gift a card for...

When opening the steam desktop app, and upon signing in, steam will not connect to the online servers, even though the PC can connect online. I am unsure what brought this on and what has changed from before it was working until now. I am using Windows 7. I have tried: Reinstalling steam...

Hello, I'm having issues with my game library which I've moved between windows installs and PC's and over time my game's have been slowly breaking, lack of config file here, general stuff like that, i'm wondering if this is normal for an old steam library. Thanks, Zdos123

So I built my new PC earlier this year, probably around May. It's been working completely fine up until about 2 months ago, when it started to randomly shut off. Like I'll just be on Netflix or something and click it turns off as if I unplugged it. It happens very occasionally usually, but...

Greetings, I've recently acquired all parts I need for a new PC (Ryzen 5 2600, ASRock B450 Pro4, 16GB 2933 MHz RAM, GTX 1660). I currently have my Windows 8.1 installed on my SSD (240GB), as well as Kaspersky Antivirus (y'know, excluding less important programs), and pretty much every other...

Ok so this is a problem countless people have ran into and now it is even happening in the new cod beta. Whenever bo3 is launched it just crashes with one of two error messages. NOW HOLD UP! I know exactly what yall bout to say "Check the integrity of your game files" "Clear your steam data...

I just recently upgraded some of my system parts due to frequent BSOD in the middle of a game in DOTA 2 Old System: A68hm-E33 Motherboard A6-5400k APU 4GB 1333Mhz Kingston Sapphire Radeon 1GB GDDR5 Edition New System: A68hm-E33 Motherboard (Same) Athlon X4 - 870k 4GB 1333Mhz Kingston (Same)...

So, as it is said in the title, I've been a long while experiencing a weird lag when passing the mouse above the Steam bar (where it says Shop, Games, etc., the part that lightens up) and above the VLC progress bar of a video or song. The issue seems to be the same and something related to the...

I've started playing GTA V recently, however, the game keeps giving me the message;"Please run Grand Theft Auto V using PlayGTAV.exe" I own the game on Steam, and every time i tried to search the internet for an answer it was all filled with people who pirated the game. I've tried reinstalling...

Hey. I am experiencing some stutter while playing GTA V, especially while flying/driving fast. I believe this may have to do with the amount it has to render in one go, as I reach some parts that aren't even rendered in yet. This is one of my most common lag points. On some of the harder lag...

Hi there. I was wondering if you could help me with an issue I am having setting up a steam in house streaming connection between my PC and a Galaxybook 12". I am trying to set up an ethernet connection between my PC and galaxybook ising a cat7 cable and a ethernet to USB type C. I am able to...

Hello! i just make a new build but i recive constantly BSOD when i open Steam and Blizzard app. I can navigate on firefox, watch netflix/youtube/etc, Photoshop... Only when i open Steam the system freeze and then get a BSOD Already did: Clean install of OS W10 (3 versions, all the same problem)...