Steam slow at opening blender

[mad_vell]

Every time I open blender, it starts loading and steam tells me it's starting, but the application never pops up. When I restart my computer I can open it, but it's a bit annoying having to do it every time and I cant figure out why I'm having this problem.

[Mark3]

Is the Blender icon visible in your Taskbar? or does it start then crash? If so, then it IS running, you just need to figure out where.

You might want to start by checking the installation using the management menu when right clicking on the Library entry for Blender, just in case you have a corrupted install, or just uninstall and reinstall - which is quite quick. Have you had problems with other 3d apps/games?

There is no difference other than where the files are installed to the non steam version.
Try opening it outside of Steam. Just find it in your Steam folder:-
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\blender.exe Does that make any difference?

Also try running "Blender_factory_startup.cmd" instead of blender.exe it will create and show you log files that will report any problems such as plugins causing slowdowns. (Look in AppData\Local\Temp\blender\debug_logs).

Blender also remember what screen it was last launched on (optional), so it can start up off screen if you have more than one monitor - or have removed a monitor.
You can Try Manually moving it by pressing selecting the icon in the taskbar, then using WIN+arrow keys. to move it on-screen.

[mad_vell]

Originally posted by Mark3:

Is the Blender icon visible in your Taskbar? or does it start then crash? If so, then it IS running, you just need to figure out where.

You might want to start by checking the installation using the management menu when right clicking on the Library entry for Blender, just in case you have a corrupted install, or just uninstall and reinstall - which is quite quick. Have you had problems with other 3d apps/games?

There is no difference other than where the files are installed to the non steam version.
Try opening it outside of Steam. Just find it in your Steam folder:-
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\blender.exe Does that make any difference?

Also try running "Blender_factory_startup.cmd" instead of blender.exe it will create and show you log files that will report any problems such as plugins causing slowdowns. (Look in AppData\Local\Temp\blender\debug_logs).

Blender also remember what screen it was last launched on (optional), so it can start up off screen if you have more than one monitor - or have removed a monitor.
You can Try Manually moving it by pressing selecting the icon in the taskbar, then using WIN+arrow keys. to move it on-screen.

No, the icon isn't visible. The only thing that shows up is that steam is running the program, but no icon ever shows up and the program doesn't either. On steam it says the application is starting, and just keeps saying that while nothing happens. It doesn't crash. If i stop it en then try to open it again the same thing happens unless I restart my computer.

[Mark3]

Did you try running it directly from the Blender folder, and re-installing / repairing it in Steam?