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EmotionallyBroken (Banned) May 23, 2019 @ 8:55am

Why is steam so glitchy?

Honestly, I want to know. I get when you put in something new, you might miss a few things, but after ten or twenty year, why are there still basic bugs like chat hiding new messages in overlay, but not in the main steam window, or steam overlay not showing after it worked fine the last 27 times you hit shift tab in the same session.

Last edited by EmotionallyBroken; May 23, 2019 @ 8:57am

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Goritude May 23, 2019 @ 9:15am

Yes there are glitches especially with chat. Reason ? Keep in mind the founder of Valve is a former Microsoft employee...

Tharon May 23, 2019 @ 10:37am

It's glitchy for around one year, when the new chat first appeared. And is getting worse day by day.

Now i can't even receive a message without have the dreaded notification in the top right corner of Steam. It's super annoying.

Valve is really trying hard to push their user to quit using the chat and going to Discord.

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 May 23, 2019 @ 10:42am

They been adding, updating, and improving things, I don't expect the client to be perfect, nor do I expect a client to be bug free, I don't often have issues with the client itself, or the overlay.

Depending on the issue you're having, it could be due to one of the following issues.

- Cache issue, which you just clear the cache, and cookies from the Steam settings.

- Bad installs, which you reinstall the Steam client, or try switching into Steam beta, or if already in Beta, switch out of it instead.

- 3rd party apps interfering with Steam client, which yes there are some other softwares that interferes, and cause issues with Steam client, or service, so you need to look into that yourself.

- Overlay issue, some games cause problems due to how they were made, or some games having their own Overlay that interferes with the Steam Overlay, or 3rd party apps Overlay that interferes with the Steam Overlay. Something you can test, and see for yourself.

I might have miss few things, but I might edit this later and add those things I might have missed

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Jesse May 23, 2019 @ 10:46am

Updates are probably in progress.

EmotionallyBroken (Banned) May 23, 2019 @ 11:19am

Originally posted by Tharon:
It's glitchy for around one year

I feel like we're not observing the same things here.

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
I don't often have issues with the client itself, or the overlay.

You dont often have the overlay fail to display?

While it would be great to fix all these issues, or some of them, Im actually stoping to question "Why is it so buggy in the first place after all these years?" Some of these functions seem as complicated as making a can and string phone. I dont see how they could go unfixed for decades.

How?
Whats the real underlaying issue preventing bugs of the simplest functions from not being corrected, how do such simple functions fail in the first place?

Last edited by EmotionallyBroken; May 23, 2019 @ 11:20am

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 May 23, 2019 @ 11:33am

Originally posted by 250RoundMags:
Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
I don't often have issues with the client itself, or the overlay.
You dont often have the overlay fail to display?

While it would be great to fix all these issues, or some of them, Im actually stoping to question "Why is it so buggy in the first place after all these years?" Some of these functions seem as complicated as making a can and string phone. I dont see how they could go unfixed for decades.

How?
Whats the real underlaying issue preventing bugs of the simplest functions from not being corrected, how do such simple functions fail in the first place?

Yup I don't often have it be an issue with the Overlay. The only time I had an issue is when I alt + tab out of the game too much, which Overlay acts up, and doesn't show up until a minute later, but most of the time Overlay works perfectly fine for me.

As much as we want somethings to be fix, all we can do is let them know about the issues, and wait until they get around to fixing it, pray it be soon, or it be later down the road.

EmotionallyBroken (Banned) May 23, 2019 @ 4:27pm

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

As much as we want somethings to be fix, all we can do is let them know about the issues, and wait until they get around to fixing it, pray it be soon, or it be later down the road.

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