Steam. Why does it have to 'verify install' each and every time it's started?

Malevolence · 18 Apr 2017 at 18:13

As per title. The only thing I can find after much searching is that it's because Steam hasn't been shut down correctly. I do shut it down correctly though.

clubb699 · 18 Apr 2017 at 18:24

Funny you say this ,i have had this happen the last few days thought it was my pc playing up

Digital X · 18 Apr 2017 at 18:33

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/qu...ow-at-startup-when-no-updates-were-downloaded

FloppyPoppy · 18 Apr 2017 at 19:19

As that link points out. It's more of a version checker to see if updates are available.

Thumpsta · 18 Apr 2017 at 21:13

Same here. Annoys the **** out of me.

jimbob339 · 18 Apr 2017 at 21:49

Happens to me I select run as admin helps

r7slayer · 19 Apr 2017 at 11:37

Mine doesn't do that. It instantly launches the game for me. Just checked to make sure.

varkanoid · 19 Apr 2017 at 13:00

Same here runs fine. It could be its not closing down properly when Windows closes. I had this under Windows 7 for ages.
Do you have steam cloud sync on for your games by any chance ?

picnic · 19 Apr 2017 at 13:11

I've got Steam installed on 3 computers and they all do this verification thing when they load as Windows starts up. Mixture of W7 and W10. All are cleanly shutdown as well.

Gimpymoo · 19 Apr 2017 at 14:12

It is a version check as already mentioned.

Surely no biggie in the time it takes on any half decent gaming PC surely?

d_brennen · 19 Apr 2017 at 14:22

Imagine all the threads if Steam didn't do integrity and update checks

adolf hamster · 19 Apr 2017 at 15:36

tbh, manually shutting down steam every time you shut down the pc is probably more hassle than just ignoring that window the the 10 seconds it appears.

ttaskmaster · 19 Apr 2017 at 15:58

Gimpymoo said:
Surely no biggie in the time it takes on any half decent gaming PC surely?

Depends on how rural your internet is...

AWPC · 19 Apr 2017 at 16:11

Maybe because Valve are fed up with people running a dodgy Steam version which uses spoofing to convince Steam its running paid for legit games! Hackers found a way about 5 years ago to install NIC system drivers at an admin level which tricked Steam into not properly checking the integrity of games by redirecting the IP traffic back to the loopback address 127.0.0.1 instead of back to Valve.