Is Steam ever going to fix the "white icon" problem??

[mrmike_49]

screen resolution is 4k, and at random times a few of the Steam icons go blank - white squares. It is ONLY the Steam icons that have this problem. It can go a month without any issues, then 4 icons will blank (have ~ 25 Steam icons on desktop). A week later, another 3 icons go blank.

Sometimes I can fix individual icons by using Properties-Change Icon, but sometimes this does NOT work?!?!?!?!?!

All in all, it is a PITA, and Steam needs to fix it. They keep blaming Windows, but no other icons have EVER had this problem for me, ONLY Steam icons

[Nx Machina]

Never had this issue in 17+ years with using Steam so it would point to an issue on your PC.

[mrmike_49]

İlk olarak Nx Machina tarafından gönderildi:

Never had this issue in 17+ years with using Steam so it would point to an issue on your PC.

are you running 4K desktop resolution?

other people have had the same issue

[Your Mom's Oshi]

If they already told you it's a windows issue then why are you wasting your time crying about it here?

[crunchyfrog]

Yup, it's a Windows issue. I get it occasionally and have never bothered to look into fixing it, but it's just part of Windows stupidity, as I've also had it with other icons too.

[mrmike_49]

İlk olarak Idontexist tarafından gönderildi:

If they already told you it's a windows issue then why are you wasting your time crying about it here?

because Steam is full of ♥♥♥♥! It is a Steam problem - ONLY STEAM ICONS EVER HAVE THIS PROBLEM - learn to read ALL the post

[RiO]

It's a windows issue. And it's not exclusive to 4K desktop resolutions.

Windows has a stupidly over-complicated cache system for the icons it presents in explorer; on your desktop; in the start menu; etc. which is based on a bit of proprietary light-weight database tech that's almost as old as Windows itself. It's thoroughly deprecated and basically no-one outside of MS itself still bothers even attempting to use it, because it's brittle and buggy as hell.

It has a plethora of issues remaining, e.g. with respect to concurrent read/write access. And sometimes it can just crap its own pants out of the blue - because that's just what it feels like doing, don't-cha know.

When that happens to the database holding the icon cache and it goes corrupt, you get broken icons. The OS doesn't act on this corruption in an automated way. It'll just remain broken until something - be that natural expiry; explicit clean-up; new icons registered into the system; or otherwise - performs a cache update. At that point the corruption will be taken into account and the whole thing will be nuked and regenerated from scratch.

And yes; MS uses this crappy tech in other parts of the OS as well. Notably, it's part of some of the more critical supply chains such as Windows Update as well. Ever wondered why some people have problems where updates just randomly stop working and they get errors indicating part of the system is corrupt? This is why.

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İlk olarak Idontexist tarafından gönderildi:

If they already told you it's a windows issue then why are you wasting your time crying about it here?

because Steam is full of ♥♥♥♥! It is a Steam problem - ONLY STEAM ICONS EVER HAVE THIS PROBLEM - learn to read ALL the post

That's just a symptom of only Steam icons being part of the segment of the database that goes corrupt. Probably because those are the only ones that are regularly changing in the system and that regularly get exposed to the danger of triggering some of the latent problems wrt concurrent read/write operations.

[crunchyfrog]

İlk olarak mrmike_49 tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Idontexist tarafından gönderildi:

If they already told you it's a windows issue then why are you wasting your time crying about it here?

because Steam is full of ♥♥♥♥! It is a Steam problem - ONLY STEAM ICONS EVER HAVE THIS PROBLEM - learn to read ALL the post

Wrong, it's only so far a Steam issue fo YOU. That does not mean it IS a steam problem.

That's not how logic works.

Thi IS a known windows issue as I've pointed out already.

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İlk olarak Nx Machina tarafından gönderildi:

Never had this issue in 17+ years with using Steam so it would point to an issue on your PC.

are you running 4K desktop resolution?

other people have had the same issue

What is your scaling mode, and what is your OS version? Anything above 100% might have issues, though I see no issues myself at 200%. If running a Windows version older than Windows 10 v1703 then Steam will not be compatible with High DPI mode.

[zaphodikus]

screenshots or it did not happen

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İlk olarak zaphodikus tarafından gönderildi:

screenshots or it did not happen

And make sure to have visible the version string of winver.exe. You can blank out your name and organization if you prefer, but it's important to know if the OS is supported by Steam on High DPI.