NOT A SINGLE STEAM GAME OF MINE WILL PLAY

[swahili]

i wanted to play some spore today so i attempted to get on it but all it said was something about a renderer not working and requiring a 32x bit thing so then i tried to get on rainbow six siege and it said that DirectX 11 does not support my graphics card. so i felt that as weird because i have a GTX 1050 Ti and i attempted to update it right after it said this but it said it was up to date so i have no idea what could be going wrong because its happening to every steam game i own

EDIT THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN RESOLVED ALL I HAD TO DO WAS RESTART MY COMPUTER WOW I KNOW RIGHT

[Zekiran]

What is the rest of your system? Please click the HELP tab at the top of your steam library window, and click SYSTEM INFORMATION. Post the ENTIRE list here.

If you're on windows 10, the fall update broke a LOT of games. If you're on a laptop or have a motherboard with an integrated chipset in addition to the graphics card you have, it may have switched to reading that chipset instead of your graphics card.

[swahili]

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Acer
Model: Aspire VN7-793G
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0x9
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2808 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Supported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 22.21.13.8205
DirectX Driver Version: 22.21.13.8205
Driver Date: 5 1 2017
OpenGL Version: 1.1
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1c21
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 15.00" x 8.43" (17.17" diag)
38.1cm x 21.4cm (43.6cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Supported MSAA Modes Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti

Memory:
RAM: 16270 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 952727 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 696497 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 01 1970
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected

[Joram]

I've been having the same issue and I've noticed a couple other related threads. Games outside of Steam are running fine but Steam games launch in background and can't maximize. A recent update seems to have screwed something up for some of us.

[swahili]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ valve

[Zekiran]

Are you on the steam client beta? If so, switch it off?

[swahili]

nop i dont think i am

[Joram]

My Steam games have suddenly started working again. I did nothing to update other drivers. Before this, I did notice that some Steam games that start in windowed mode were working but full screen games were not. As I was putzing around in the Nvidia Control Panel, I was playing with the scaling options but even though I ultimately didn't change anything, the games started working again. Very weird.