Issue with multiple instances of steam webhelper running

[AslǝǝpDɐn]

Basically the topic for some reason i have 5 instances of webhelper running and anytime i try to close any of them out they instantly pop back up, i cant post a picture but this is when im in task manager just to be clear, pressing end task does nothing they come right back up, not sure if that link will work, thanks for any help in advance.

https://imgur.com/a/4Y9mlUl

[Gucci]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

welp now my RAM usage on web helper is going over 1.1GB, so I suppose there is a memleak on stable.

My ram usage is minimal, less that 1GB but steam takes multiple minutes to login and games are unable to launch until I end all of the webhelper tasks in task manager. The webhelper is directly causing the issue so to everyone saying just restart steam needs to humble themselves for a minute and listen. If I launch steam from any location, multiple minutes pass before the logging in to xxxx steam account dialog box pops up. My games freeze as they are launching and the only fix is to end all of the client webhelper tasks in task manager. Of course, if I end 1 then 5 more appear. I can make hundreds of copies of the webhelper (they use very little RAM overall but spike RAM and CPU usage ramdomly) by ending the bottom webhelper task. Until I manage to spam end task fast enough to kill all webhelper tasks, my games freeze and do not launch. Once I’ve killed them all the games and steam client run fine.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Gucci:

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

welp now my RAM usage on web helper is going over 1.1GB, so I suppose there is a memleak on stable.

My ram usage is minimal, less that 1GB but steam takes multiple minutes to login and games are unable to launch until I end all of the webhelper tasks in task manager. The webhelper is directly causing the issue so to everyone saying just restart steam needs to humble themselves for a minute and listen. If I launch steam from any location, multiple minutes pass before the logging in to xxxx steam account dialog box pops up. My games freeze as they are launching and the only fix is to end all of the client webhelper tasks in task manager. Of course, if I end 1 then 5 more appear. I can make hundreds of copies of the webhelper (they use very little RAM overall but spike RAM and CPU usage ramdomly) by ending the bottom webhelper task. Until I manage to spam end task fast enough to kill all webhelper tasks, my games freeze and do not launch. Once I’ve killed them all the games and steam client run fine.

Set Steam settings up so that the Client loads directly to Library upon launch. Set the settings regarding Library to enable low performance mode and enable low bandwidth mode. These both help the Library portion run smoother and not be a cpu and ram hog.

Have OS and game clients on an SSD. The games can go onto a secondary HDD if needed.

[Muppet among Puppets]

The store page atm uses 2gb ram and some cpu.
So as said above, library as start view and doing the settings for low features of library is a good idea.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

The store page atm uses 2gb ram and some cpu.
So as said above, library as start view and doing the settings for low features of library is a good idea.

So, flush your ram maybe. Not hard to do. Or restart the game client. Yes it will use more ram the longer it's open and the more you click around the various pages, that's normal.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Today looks normal. Havent checked again.

[Gucci]

Latest steam update seems to have fixed my issue, I haven’t yet changed any settings but I’m only seeing 1 or 2 client web helpers now. Games launch fine, and overall steam is much faster/more responsive.

[SP4NKER]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

IDK why the F you all keep going back and forth asking if there is some magic that we can suggest to fix Steam. If it's that damn bad stop using it. But above all stop posting stupid combative questions which have no answer.

I still laugh at this because you're the one bloody jabbing passive-aggressive insults at everyone for no apparent reason. Your tone always seems salty like you're working yourself up-- it's an anomaly to me.

I came here for help, and got none here. I will not bother reading through the paragraphs of "its not that hard" and "you're behind" and "get a better pc idiot". So if any of you have already answered to this, I apologize in advance:

I felt a bit of a performance boost when I set Steam's launch options in the properties: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -console -no-browser
Makes the client finnicky and only half functional, but it's worth the try.

Hope it helps

[Hodinson]

I had this issue, but it was so bad that it completely halted my computer since an endless amount of steamwebhelper.exe was started and maxing out the CPU. I could see at least 50 or more before even task manager was halted.

The solution for me was to reinstall Steam.

First I moved my games and user data folders (\SteamApps\ + \Userdata\) outside the Steam folder on the same disk, (or they will be gone!), then shut down Steam very quickly after Windows restart, before finally uninstalling Steam in control panel -> Uninstall a program, and downloading and reinstalling Steam again. Last was to move back the games and user data folders I saved previously.

After this, things worked fine again. There are only a handful of Steamwebhelper.exe running now.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Hodinson:

I had this issue, but it was so bad that it completely halted my computer since an endless amount of steamwebhelper.exe was started and maxing out the CPU. I could see at least 50 or more before even task manager was halted.

The solution for me was to reinstall Steam.

First I moved my games and user data folders (\SteamApps\ + \Userdata\) outside the Steam folder on the same disk, (or they will be gone!), then shut down Steam very quickly after Windows restart, before finally uninstalling Steam in control panel -> Uninstall a program, and downloading and reinstalling Steam again. Last was to move back the games and user data folders I saved previously.

After this, things worked fine again. There are only a handful of Steamwebhelper.exe running now.

Well if you stop using Steam as a Web browser and also restart Steam or your PC every once in a while that won't happen.

There is zero need to uninstall Steam. You can wipe all the old files from the folder very easily and then run Steam.exe with run as admin option to repair it.

[jpmaltman]

Even with 16GB of Ram, sometimes you don't want multiple instances of the same thing running in the background. Everything starts to add up after awhile.

[SleepyHollow]

A bunch of programs with web components do this, Spotify or Discord for example also open a bunch of exes and when you close one of them it gets reopened again (or it will crash the program if you close the main one)

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by jpmaltman:

Even with 16GB of Ram, sometimes you don't want multiple instances of the same thing running in the background. Everything starts to add up after awhile.

Except it's not exactly the same thing. The names of the processes are the same, but they're for different parts of the client. For the RAM usage it doesn't matter whether they use one process or split it into various processes, but from a troubleshooting POV splitting it means the client doesn't crash as a whole just because one component fails.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Learn to flush your ram you won't have to worry about how much Steam or Chrome uses. Plus it does help to fully exit and restart an app like Steam every so often. For me it's about 2 or 3 times a day, on a PC that runs 24/7 and only needs a reboot when I mess with major changes, updates or drivers for the most part. Sometimes it's up for 2 weeks or so without a single reboot.

[LordWabbit]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Learn to flush your ram you won't have to worry about how much Steam or Chrome uses. Plus it does help to fully exit and restart an app like Steam every so often. For me it's about 2 or 3 times a day, on a PC that runs 24/7 and only needs a reboot when I mess with major changes, updates or drivers for the most part. Sometimes it's up for 2 weeks or so without a single reboot.

No. I will not allow Valva to dictate what can or cannot be done on my PC. Forcing me to restart their bloatware multiple times a day so that it doesn't slowly devour more and more RAM like some vile monster out of the abyss that is Valva's soul.
And Yes, I have plenty of RAM, and NO it's doesn't really make a difference on my PC, other than the fact that it's MY PC!
NOT VALVA's!

For those who for some obscure reason have a deep seated fear of not being able to uninstall a game after hacking out the web helpers, shift deleting the folder also works.

If they wrote a decent application they wouldn't have to divide it up into multiple processes to stop it falling on it's face.

I can understand that in a full web browser that has to serve content from multiple different providers, but Valve is only serving it's own content. Is their own content so unstable it makes their own client application crash? To the point that they have to protect themselves from themselves?

[The HopelessGamer™]

Originally posted by LordWabbit:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Learn to flush your ram you won't have to worry about how much Steam or Chrome uses. Plus it does help to fully exit and restart an app like Steam every so often. For me it's about 2 or 3 times a day, on a PC that runs 24/7 and only needs a reboot when I mess with major changes, updates or drivers for the most part. Sometimes it's up for 2 weeks or so without a single reboot.

No. I will not allow Valva to dictate what can or cannot be done on my PC. Forcing me to restart their bloatware multiple times a day so that it doesn't slowly devour more and more RAM like some vile monster out of the abyss that is Valva's soul.
And Yes, I have plenty of RAM, and NO it's doesn't really make a difference on my PC, other than the fact that it's MY PC!
NOT VALVA's!

For those who for some obscure reason have a deep seated fear of not being able to uninstall a game after hacking out the web helpers, shift deleting the folder also works.

If they wrote a decent application they wouldn't have to divide it up into multiple processes to stop it falling on it's face.

I can understand that in a full web browser that has to serve content from multiple different providers, but Valve is only serving it's own content. Is their own content so unstable it makes their own client application crash? To the point that they have to protect themselves from themselves?

You so realise Steam uses the same amount of ram as other launchers right? Uplay, origin, epic... they use about the same ram. So.... welcome to the new digital world. Upgrade or be left behind.