Steam causing games to crash?

[pieman109]

Has anyone here had a problem with steam games crashing or black screening at all? I ask because I've now got a second pc with totally different components, but both with steam installed where any steam game will crash after about 5-10 mins of useage. The crashes are so simlar between these two pcs that I'm wondering if theres a link with steam at all.
The system specs of both rigs are sufficient to power the games in question (all sorts, not one particular genre as fas as I can make out), both have over 600w psus, up to date drivers, nothing is overheating which I've checked, etc.
Any ideas?

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

Not had anything like this. In my experience steam is very stable.... but does seem susceptible to file-corruption on occasions.

First thing to do would be reinstall steam. Backup your steamapps folder so you don't have to download everything again..... delete the folder and reinstall steam.