Non-Steam games broken icons

madindehead · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:35

Got a little issue with my Steam. All the non-Steam games I have added have broken icons like this:

Now, it should be showing as the small icon that the Warcraft III exe has, but isn't coming up at all for some reason. Even when I try and select it, nothing changes.

Any ideas? It used to work properly for me, but has broken ever since I re-installed Steam.

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 10:46

Yeah, I tried to re-add them and it's still broken for me

Really annoying now. I might try to reinstall my Steam, and then re-add my mklink for the Steam apps folder. It's just a bit inconvenient really!

orderoftheflame, I tried to add a proper .ico file and it doesn't show anything. Doesn't event extract anything from the .exes

I will try a reinstall.

Reinstalled Steam, and still no joy. When I go to actually add a game, all the icons in that listing are totally broken. Not good

Anyone got any suggestions as to how to fix this? It's doing my head in. Shouldn't be like that. But given Steam doesn't even display the icons of programs in the "add non-Steam game" browser, seems like it's not going to be easy to fix

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:49

No launch properties added. And it breaks before I edit anything. The minute I add the shortcut, it is broken.

Like I said, if I go to "Add a game", then the browser comes up, none of the games/programs have working icons. They are all just white icons. It used to work for me a while ago, on my old install of Windows, before I moved to my SSD. I didn't really use the feature much. Now that I want to use it, nothing appears. It's so stupid, as I have no idea why it's doing it!

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 13:48

True. Just thought I would post here first. Will make a post later.

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 13:58

I can't add anything sadly. If I add an image or anything, it just shows up blank

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 14:53

I guess I will just live with it for now. It can't be a Steam issue, as other people have the small icons working, so it must be an issue with my PC and my Steam

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 15:16

Anyone know if there is a way to reset Steam, other than deleting the ClientRegistry file?

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 15:32

Will give it a go. I am getting this when I go to add a non Steam game:

As you can see, none of the icons are appearing there. So definitely a problem

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 15:42

Reset Steam, still no solution. Very annoyed with this now.

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:45

Found one other person on the Steam forums who has had this issue for a while. Apparently is has persisted across various OS installs and Steam re-installs.

Anyone got any other ideas as to what could fix it?

madindehead · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:53

I reinstalled Windows, and it's fixed now

However, I do need to workout what caused the problem

Update: Found the problem. Did a reinstall of Windows, and turns out, that Stardock Icon Packager was breaking the icons. All fixed and working (for now).