SteamDieing Created 15 years ago2008-09-23 15:00:26 UTC by Skals

My Steam i dieing(unless it is already dead)

It keeps freezing everytime i enter or try to enter any game and it stays frozen. restarting my pc doesnt work too. help please

Quit steam. Delete the ClientRegistry.blob file in the steam directory. Then restart steam. If it still doesn't work, restart your computer, then steam.

If it still doesn't work, let me know

K, ill try that tomorrow. gtg now

*dying, FYI

I've been having trouble w/ Steam l8ly myself. Often, even though I can see it running, it won't open the UI. Also, when I ctrl+alt+del to force quit and restart (while does get it working) I see that hl2.exe and GameOverlayUI.exe are still running, even though it's been hours since I last played a game.

ATDestroyer, tried it. my steam is still atcing like a complete retard. it wont get connected to the internet and it will freeze when i do almost anything with it. I think its my pcs fault. it wont shut off lately when i try to turn it off.... i did a system recovery for drives only, and its still acting retarded.

Sounds like you should back up your steamapps folder and reinstall steam.

If it still doesnt work, then i guess it is your PC.

k, ill do that now :<
... so how do i back it up? surely if i delete steam, it wont delete all my maps etc... will it?

P.s: at, ive noticed this too: my steam wont go online all the time this freeze happens.

Edit: ok i cant even remove steam! omg whats wrong with my pc

Literally copy your game folders and paste them somewhere else.

What do you mean you can't remove Steam? What happens when you try to uninstall it? I hope you're not just trying to delete the steam folder.

it freezes when i try to remove it via control panel, and there is no "uninstallsteam.exe" in any of my steam folders

You seriously messed something up man.

Are you sure its frozen in the control panel? Let it sit for half an hour then come back to me and say its frozen, some programs especially huge space takers like steam/all of its installed apps, take a while to get the uninstaller started.

1. close steam, and move the steam/steamapps folder somewhere else
2. get rid of steam any way you can (important, you need to remove all traces of steam. uninstall it, but if you can't, delete the folder and then delete all steam registry values)
3. reinstall steam
4. if steam started, close it
5. copy the steamapps folder back into the steam directory
6. start steam

if this doesn't work, the problem's with your computer. you won't lose any of your maps or games if you do this.

Ok me try.
Edit: i waited for 40 mins.
Error message: installer seems not responding.

Deactivate any antivirus or firewall software and try again.

tried it. still doesnt work. its my pc, what should i do

Reformat. It always feels great to remove those nasty bugs with a nice clean. Just compare it to living in a tidy house

As I keep saying my PC has this reset to factory settings which just reformats it and puts it to the way it was when it first arrived. Handyliscious.

Yup. Back up your data and flash that sucker.

oh right, i know another thing what i could do! I could do that history setting thingy that lets me go back to any day or time the pc was running so that i can go to the time when steam was running fine n stuff... let me try that now, if it doesnt work ill flush that sucker. if that doesnt work, reformat

Edit: how exactly do i make my pc go back in tiem?

Don't bother, it doesn't work. Ever. The first thing I do when I reinstall Windows is to disable it, because it wastes resources and slows down installs by creating "recovery points" which take ages to create.

I repeat, Windows system recovery never works. Don't even bother trying it. Format your computer and start fresh.

Reformat. What a horrible word. I remember windows ME, and how it required a reformat every year, lest it lose all stability.

I've had XP running for 8 years, and haven't reformatted once.

I think that skals reformating to fix his problem would be comparable to dropping an anvil on a fruit fly.

Theres most likely a much more surgical way to fix this problem, but i cant expect skals to find it out.

I remember windows ME, and how it required a reformat every year, lest it lose all stability.

Not entirely true I suppose. I have a ME computer around here that runs just fine and i've never reformatted it. It might be a freak of it's kind though.

I repeat, Windows system recovery never works. Don't even bother trying it. Format your computer and start fresh.

QFT.

To be honest from what I've seen from using it, it does more damage ;D Cause it tries to go back and ends up mixing old files with new and they collide. I had to reformat after I had 2 NVIDIA drivers mixing together thanks to Vista...Going back did NOT help D:

I'm going to get acronis to image my drive--new computer so there isn't much clutter yet--, so i never have to worry about all the trouble of reformatting... not that it's a big deal or anything, it just takes you time to set everything up the way you had it.

It's good to clean house once in a while = )

System recovery is useless, and provides a great place for viruses to hang out.

Disable FTW!

Oh and Grim, was your ME machine a gaming machine? Because mine was, and it would crash so frequently in games that it would just mess up stuff gradually until it would have problems just booting. Then its reformat time. ME would be fine in an office machine i suppose

Actually I bought mine at the time from Wal-Mart.

It was suited to play some basic games such as red-alert 2, Tribes 2, and HL of course ;o

There was plenty of other stuff too, but it never really did mess up on me.

Interesting, I wonder what I did that made my ME hate me

ME was a fail operating system in general. Vista is like ME version 2, one of MS's biggest fails ever

As for formatting, I do it about once every year. It speeds up your computer by quite a bit.

I repeat, Windows system recovery never works. Don't even bother trying it. Format your computer and start fresh.

What is reformat and how do i do it?

Reformat is when all the data on your HDD partition is deleted.
The easiest way to reformat if you use Windows XP is to put your XP CD in your DVD/CD reader, reboot your computer and enter the XP installation thing, choose to format your HDD partition and then reinstall Windows XP.
If the HDD you are installing on is a SATA HDD, you must have SATA drivers on a floppy or use an unofficial XP installation DVD where the drivers are included.

Not true potatis, I have installed XP (using the original disk) on SATA computers at least 20 times with no floppy disk.

I think I will take a risk and put my two cents here. One thing I have notice over the past few years is that some of these big computer brands like Dell, HP and others are not including a physical Windows operating system disk (or recover disk) with their packaged systems. They are instead shipping the computers with their hard drives configured with two separate partitions. One partition, the main one, has the installed operating system all ready to go. The other second, smaller partition has a sort of "virtual disk" version of a normal Windows recover CD. From this "system recover partition" is where you initiate a reformatting of the main partition to re-install everything. I know it sounds a bit confusing, but hey, that's how HP's tech support explained it to me on how to do it when reformatting my PC. Dell does more or less the same thing too.

The problem is i have no XP disk/i didnt get any when i bought pc!
Isn't there another way?

Oops i just read titos post. it was hidden!!! well anyways, so the only way to do it is with the system recovery thing?

I have installed XP (using the original disk) on SATA computers at least 20 times with no floppy disk.

Then you must have used one of the later releases of XP.
I know it doesn't work with old XP discs.