Steam thinks dota 2 is running, can't shut down

[hello! :3]

exactly what the title says, started today, wants me to quit dota 2 even though it's not running

[Zeppline]

Sounds like those foul mouthed players that tell you to quit dota 2, even if you're not playing :P

Kidding aside, Open task manager and check your processes, see if dota 2 is running at all, it could be syncing cloud data into steam. as this is nearly missable.

[hello! :3]

Originally posted by Zeppline:

Sounds like those foul mouthed players that tell you to quit dota 2, even if you're not playing :P

Kidding aside, Open task manager and check your processes, see if dota 2 is running at all, it could be syncing cloud data into steam. as this is nearly missable.

I did, but there's nothing game related running. Tried it a few times, but every time I start and quit dota, it doesn't let me shut down steam. It's not like when a game crashes, and the gameoverlay.exe gets stuck.

[ChemicalBacon]

Is it trying to complete a function and your antivirus is blocking it?

[Drekazet]

lol twich

[hello! :3]

Originally posted by ChemicalBacon:

Is it trying to complete a function and your antivirus is blocking it?

Nope.

[76561198085598767]

wait

[hello! :3]

Originally posted by trulym:

wait

Doesn't solve anything. And despite there being no processes related dota running, I can't start the game, if I already played and quit once. Have to end the steam process and relog in.

[Stakhanovite]

just reboot

[Marinade]

are you sure you checked your task manager? I mean you need to find the dota2.exe (or something like this) in the processes (NOT aplications). Then yiu just terminate it. It always worked for me. Good luck

[hello! :3]

Originally posted by ◄gamseb►:

are you sure you checked your task manager? I mean you need to find the dota2.exe (or something like this) in the processes (NOT aplications). Then yiu just terminate it. It always worked for me. Good luck

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[iPunkBuster]

Originally posted by ChemicalBacon:

Is it trying to complete a function and your antivirus is blocking it?

Long ago i had this problem and infect my eset 7 av do makes the problem.
I had to force turn off my pc lulz
So the solution i made is by putting dota 2 on my av firewall list.
Now no problem at all.

So OP, you just start playing dota 2 like 1st time or you already play dota 2 and this problem never happen before?

[isqaaaaaaaa]

try going into your steam folder where dota is located and delete the appcache folder,. reboot

[carrie alyssa]

Go to task manager, go to processes and terminate dota2.exe AND steam.exe.

[76561198156829817]

just delete the appcache folder from where the steam folder is and your done

[phenom]

Originally posted by twitch.tv/stakhanovite:

just reboot

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