Steam is slow, everything else is fine ( writing this on phone)

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CruzControl3.0 Jun 2, 2017 @ 7:17pm

Odd problem, ok so i start up steam on my pc as normal but its slow and clunky so i restart my pc and its still slow i can play games thru my homescreen and if i shift tab messging works fine but guides and disscusions will not load at all, ive restarted my internet but that doesnt help either.

Last edited by CruzControl3.0; Jun 2, 2017 @ 7:18pm

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Wolf Jun 2, 2017 @ 7:48pm

I don't know if my problem is caused by the same thing as yours, but they seems similar.

My steam is slow and freezes sometimes (not just at some places, but it can even do it in my library), and it can even go to the point where it crashes. When it does I can't open it again without having to restart my computer.

I had to write go with my browser to be able to get here, since it crashed again. ;-;

Lathrim Jun 2, 2017 @ 7:52pm

Originally posted by floW:
I don't know if my problem is caused by the same thing as yours, but they seems similar.

My steam is slow and freezes sometimes (not just at some places, but it can even do it in my library), and it can even go to the point where it crashes. When it does I can't open it again without having to restart my computer.

I had to write go with my browser to be able to get here, since it crashed again. ;-;

I don't know about OP's issue, but after the client crashes, have you tried opening task manager and force ending all Steam processes? This might make it so you don't have to reboot your PC every time.

Wolf Jun 2, 2017 @ 7:59pm

Originally posted by Lathrim:
Originally posted by floW:
I don't know if my problem is caused by the same thing as yours, but they seems similar.

My steam is slow and freezes sometimes (not just at some places, but it can even do it in my library), and it can even go to the point where it crashes. When it does I can't open it again without having to restart my computer.

I had to write go with my browser to be able to get here, since it crashed again. ;-;

I don't know about OP's issue, but after the client crashes, have you tried opening task manager and force ending all Steam processes? This might make it so you don't have to reboot your PC every time.

...Well it worked this time (if by processes you mean opened game and the bootstrapper), I hope it continues like that.

Though I still have to find how to get Steam to work as good as before (it started doing this two days ago maybe?) I'll cross my fingers it goes away magically like it came if I can't find a solution. xD

Thank you. ^_^

P.S.: ...Now Steam doesn't detect a game (the one that seems to have triggered the worst case of freezing), while it is still in the old location. (Can ignore that line, it seems steam detect existing files when re-installing.)

If it can help, I have a hard drive? I don't know how its called but like e: disk or something.

Tried running a game on the external disk and it runned pretty smoothly...

Last edited by Wolf; Jun 2, 2017 @ 8:24pm