Steam misbehaving

Deific · 30 Oct 2009 at 21:38

My steam has been acting up lately. It usually loads up when I log in to my user but isn't doing so. Also clicking on the exe it says it's loaded in task manager processes, but it's not running in applications or showing in the icon tray like it should and the steam window doesn't pop up either. When I can get the exe to load it just says connecting to steam and does nothing. When I do have it up it crashes often. This has only started happening earlier today. What could be the problem? And is there any way to fix it without reinstalling steam?

nutsnut · 30 Oct 2009 at 21:39

Mine fine here, you could try defragging the game files

Deific · 30 Oct 2009 at 21:41

Seems others having same problem

Parsley · 30 Oct 2009 at 22:08

I've been having similar issues since upgrading to retail Windows 7.

bimmerboii · 30 Oct 2009 at 22:31

I do get the same problem from time to time.. running win7 64. I just open task manager, go to processes, right click on steam (there are 2 of em) and choose end process. Then re launch steam.

Deadbeat · 30 Oct 2009 at 22:31

Deadbeat said:
There was a massive update for Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, but I had a problem connecting previously because I had PeerBlock running at the same time. Not sure about the status with PeerGuardian, but exiting PeerBlock temporarily fixed the connection problems for me.

Showboat · 30 Oct 2009 at 23:03

I'm having same problem, copied steam folder from xp install over to win7 and it says updating and hangs anywhere between 3-18%

gazzamcg · 30 Oct 2009 at 23:44

Run the steam.exe as the administrator and see if it helps.

Had the same problem as you Showboat updating steam until running it as the admin.

Showboat · 31 Oct 2009 at 00:13

Tried that, also tried running in XP compatibility mode, probably didnt give it long enough, ill retry.

mrbios · 31 Oct 2009 at 00:34

I had that problem just today, you shouldn't need any compatibility modes etc, what fixed it for me was removing any profile related folders from the steam/steamapps folder and deleting the two .blob files in the main folder

After it had updated, which actually reqired me to click cancel twice and retry it to get it to download, it asked me to login again, and now it works fine

Xenoxide · 31 Oct 2009 at 01:54

I had the exact same problem. Like mrbios said, I went into my Program Files\Steam folder and deleted EVERYTHING except for Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Next time I launched, it went through reinstallation, and has worked fine ever since.

Tute · 31 Oct 2009 at 01:57

I've been downloading on it all night, and it's been acting up - freezing and randomly crashing - quite a few times.

Probably something to do with the load from the L4D2 demo.