Steam Crashes when installing game or adding new libary. Please Help!

[Piikaa1337]

Hello everyone!

ive recently tried to install Rust but it when I clicked "Install" Steam just crashed and i couldnt even close it via the Taskmanager. Ive also tried it on other games. Still the same problem.

Ive so far tried to clear my steam download cache, reinstalled steam, and even resetted windows.

i would really appreciate any more tips so that i can install games again.

Thanks in advance!

[Dranak]

Disk total size and whats free on each disk,

And are you have a previous steam lib on that drive so new steam ?:\SteamLibrary on other multi disk might have issue with it, see steam storage manager inside steam client ofc.
also possble to repair other multi lib there.

assume you know NTFS only do not have usb stick with fat attached to system even that is seen before cause issue to other steam user.

also linux OS user can have diffent but i assume its windows10


ps.
add steam.exe to antivirus app is user own responsibility as exceptions rules.

[Piikaa1337]

Originally posted by Iceira W10:

Disk total size and whats free on each disk,

And are you have a previous steam lib on that drive so new steam ?:\SteamLibrary on other multi disk might have issue with it, see steam storage manager inside steam client ofc.
also possble to repair other multi lib there.

assume you know NTFS only do not have usb stick with fat attached to system even that is seen before cause issue to other steam user.

also linux OS user can have diffent but i assume its windows10

One of the disks (C Drive) had 160GB left the other one 150GB

With resetting windows it also wiped all games so now i have a bout 500GB on the D Drive and 250 on the other drive left

Yes its windows 11.

[Dranak]

i think you you just experience same issue as many did a crash and now steam storage manager got a issue with current installed multi lib, even happend to me , problem in my case was 2 multi lib with old path installations issue and the new ways steam do it

new steam default way is"?:\\SteamLibrary" i had "?:\Program Files (x86)\Steam" on other multi disk and somehow this is now a system issue.

I added the new folder in root "?:\\SteamLibrary" and move the old folder to the new place then repair the lib and all was good again. ( do note its s ROOT folder and steam can have admin right issue in a subfolder ( its all about security issue, from the past ) most app today can get issue and is seen as thirdpart app this also effect steam now. and why they move it to ROOT so admin right will work there.

man i hope you get what i try to explan, because, if you notice if you try other subfolder it wont work.

and i hope you catch the how to fix and move the content to new place.

ps.
even i fiddle with folder access rights ( and yet somehow steam did this to me apox 3months ago ) and work fine in many years , so what has change Security and thats the problem here.
and that why i accept the new steam way in the ROOT, because im sure they have made it so and sametime keep it simple so ppl dont forget steam has own lib so you dont delete it by mistake in program files as subdir. ( fat chance a experience user will do that , but i bet they did not make it so for our benefits its for the casual players that dont know better.

[Piikaa1337]

Hello Thanks for your help! It somehow fixed itself when i unplugged an USB Hub with a SD card inside. I can download everything again now!

[Dranak]

Originally posted by Piikaa:

Hello Thanks for your help! It somehow fixed itself when i unplugged an USB Hub with a SD card inside. I can download everything again now!

holy crap , another usb issue, man not good, but i bet you know why i wrote what if this is that odd usb issue.