Steam chat crashes and closes friends exe every time I try to open a chat...

[Acecool]

This has been happening over a week now and I've reinstalled and done everything to try and clear this up, but friends will open.. I double click on a person, chat, etc.. and it tries to pop up and then it shuts friends down completely.

Chat is not working at all on my system. Furthermore, it has marked all unread messages as read so I don't know who has sent me messages.

Please, push an update as it is broken, and it isn't a result of my installation as I have completely reinstalled, cleared everything, etc..

[Acecool]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2650881941768809211/

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2650881941767540587/

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2650881941768730782/

Apparently this identical thing is happening to others. Yeah, it refreshes the main page.

[Acecool]

Steam > Settings > Scale interface UNCHECK IT > problem solved after restart.

Thanks.

[Dorian Electra]

Just had this same problem, your fix worked for me. Thank you!!

[Acecool]

Not mine, came from Blue Baritone at steam://openurl/https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2650881941767540587/

I posted it in all of these threads so a larger number of people would see it.

[HorribleGamer]

* Open your Registry Editor (Windows > Run > RegEdit)
* Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* Find the entry named Steam and add the parameters:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -silent -nochatui -nofriendsui

another fix is to update to BETA(which usually solves the problem)

[smelt]

thank you old steam thread

[⭒sirconcept⭒]

Originally posted by Acecool:

Steam > Settings > Scale interface UNCHECK IT > problem solved after restart.

Thanks.

Scale interface? wheres that at

[spidermonster]

Originally posted by smelt:

thank you old steam thread

steam client is so buggy atm this happened to me twice

[Acecool]

Originally posted by SirConcept:

Originally posted by Acecool:

Steam > Settings > Scale interface UNCHECK IT > problem solved after restart.

Thanks.

Scale interface? wheres that at

Top left of Steam client: click Steam > click Settings > click Interface > unmark Scale text and icons to match monitor settings.

[Cool hedgehog]

Originally posted by smelt:

thank you old steam thread

thx for bumping

[smelt]

Originally posted by Excalibur Sonic:

Originally posted by smelt:

thank you old steam thread

thx for bumping

no problem

[Jerry]

Originally posted by Acecool:

Originally posted by SirConcept:

Scale interface? wheres that at

Top left of Steam client: click Steam > click Settings > click Interface > unmark Scale text and icons to match monitor settings.

I'm not using the english version, and none of the points really translate to that. I got one (right above the one at the end about upcoming features), that says to activate DirectWrite to smoothen the writing... is it this one?

P.S.: Dear mods, I know, you go hard on reviving old threads lately, but please leave this one open. It's relevant.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Jerry:

Originally posted by Acecool:

Top left of Steam client: click Steam > click Settings > click Interface > unmark Scale text and icons to match monitor settings.

I'm not using the english version, and none of the points really translate to that. I got one (right above the one at the end about upcoming features), that says to activate DirectWrite to smoothen the writing... is it this one?

P.S.: Dear mods, I know, you go hard on reviving old threads lately, but please leave this one open. It's relevant.

It should be the first checkbox on the page.

[SkillFailer]

Originally posted by Jerry:

Originally posted by Acecool:

Top left of Steam client: click Steam > click Settings > click Interface > unmark Scale text and icons to match monitor settings.

I'm not using the english version, and none of the points really translate to that. I got one (right above the one at the end about upcoming features), that says to activate DirectWrite to smoothen the writing... is it this one?

P.S.: Dear mods, I know, you go hard on reviving old threads lately, but please leave this one open. It's relevant.

The setting youre looking for is right below the Client-Skin selection
the first one of the tick boxes, right above "start steam on windows start"

[Jerry]

The first checkbox (below language selection, starting page and skins) is to start Steam when launching the computer. Am I looking at the wrong place, or would they really set up a different order in other languages?
I would have said, it might be because my client is still running in some January version (haven't done the feb updates yet, after all those reports about library issues for others), but the advice up there is from summer 2020.