Mini profile wont show up on friends list.

[Eremits®]

When i hover my mouse on my friends name, or even on my own name, on the friends and conversations tab, there is a pop up with their profile picture and name, but the mini profile on the background wont show up.
But when i hover the mouse on their picture inside their profile page, the mini animated profile shows up.

Already searchead around to fix this, with no success, there is no option to activate or deactivate the mini profile display.

Just formatted my pc, reinstalled steam and still, it wont show up, so I think is something related to the account, since my friends steam will show up the mini profile.

[crunchyfrog]

Reinstalling steam won't do anything. It's not an account thing either.

If you have some corrupted files then resintalling doesn't often fix it, for some reason. You can try a couple of things.

First off, go to steam settings and clear your web cache. Restart steam.

Next, if that doesn't work, try going to your steam install folder, and delte EVERYTHING except steam.exe and your steamapps folder (where your games reside). Then run that steam.exe and it will reacquire all the needed files anew.

That tends to fix a whole host of corruptions and issues.

Lastly, the only other option is really to just wait as it could be just server congestion. When things don't display correctly that's generally it.

Ofttimes it shows up on these forums where profile frames or pictures, or even names don't show up properly.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Eremits:

Just formatted my pc, reinstalled steam and still, it wont show up, so I think is something related to the account, since my friends steam will show up the mini profile.

Please tell me you didn't format the PC just because you didn't see mini profiles appearing sometimes....

The mini profiles, avatars, avatar frames, etc... sometimes don't work as intended and there's nothing on your end that can correct it. It simply Steam being Steam sometimes. It'll correct itself at some point but none of those pretty flairs are detrimental to Steam's services so none of it is a priority if they aren't displaying when you expect them to.

[Eremits®]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Eremits:

Just formatted my pc, reinstalled steam and still, it wont show up, so I think is something related to the account, since my friends steam will show up the mini profile.

Please tell me you didn't format the PC just because you didn't see mini profiles appearing sometimes....

The mini profiles, avatars, avatar frames, etc... sometimes don't work as intended and there's nothing on your end that can correct it. It simply Steam being Steam sometimes. It'll correct itself at some point but none of those pretty flairs are detrimental to Steam's services so none of it is a priority if they aren't displaying when you expect them to.

My pc needed to be formatted, i didnt do it just to try to fix steam. Just commented it so people could understand the problem better.

[Eremits®]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Reinstalling steam won't do anything. It's not an account thing either.

If you have some corrupted files then resintalling doesn't often fix it, for some reason. You can try a couple of things.

First off, go to steam settings and clear your web cache. Restart steam.

Next, if that doesn't work, try going to your steam install folder, and delte EVERYTHING except steam.exe and your steamapps folder (where your games reside). Then run that steam.exe and it will reacquire all the needed files anew.

That tends to fix a whole host of corruptions and issues.

Lastly, the only other option is really to just wait as it could be just server congestion. When things don't display correctly that's generally it.

Ofttimes it shows up on these forums where profile frames or pictures, or even names don't show up properly.

Unfortunately those steps didnt solve the problem, I guess its not server congestion either, its been like this for a long time, guess i will need to wait until some update fixes it.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Eremits:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Reinstalling steam won't do anything. It's not an account thing either.

If you have some corrupted files then resintalling doesn't often fix it, for some reason. You can try a couple of things.

First off, go to steam settings and clear your web cache. Restart steam.

Next, if that doesn't work, try going to your steam install folder, and delte EVERYTHING except steam.exe and your steamapps folder (where your games reside). Then run that steam.exe and it will reacquire all the needed files anew.

That tends to fix a whole host of corruptions and issues.

Lastly, the only other option is really to just wait as it could be just server congestion. When things don't display correctly that's generally it.

Ofttimes it shows up on these forums where profile frames or pictures, or even names don't show up properly.

Unfortunately those steps didnt solve the problem, I guess its not server congestion either, its been like this for a long time, guess i will need to wait until some update fixes it.

Yeah if it's been going on a while it still CAN Be a bit of congestion as it can rely on where you are, and what time of day you play etc.

But judging by what you've said it's incredibly likely to be something on your computer that is blocking this somehow. The only thing I can suggest is sitting down and removing programs one by one until you find the culprit.

[★Tomato☭Hokage★]

I have the same problem as you, and there's no way to fix this.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ★Tomato☭Hokage★:

I have the same problem as you, and there's no way to fix this.

Again congestion does this.

Leave it some hours and try again, especially when it gets quieter.

[GenuineSquirrel]

I'm having the same problem. Mini profiles don't work, however it's only while in-game on the steam overlay. When I open my friend's list while tabbed out it works.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by GenuineSquirrel:

I'm having the same problem. Mini profiles don't work, however it's only while in-game on the steam overlay. When I open my friend's list while tabbed out it works.

Likely congestion as I said.

[Mehmet Emin]

Originally posted by ★Tomato☭Hokage★:

I have the same problem as you, and there's no way to fix this.

Yeah,Sadly.İ have it too.

[TvMerlinTv]

the same problem but it started that it showed the mini profile for a 1s and then it was gone. Now it is not showing it at all. Maybe it is my pc parts Ryzen 5 3600 and a rx 6800 or win11.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by TvMerlinTv:

the same problem but it started that it showed the mini profile for a 1s and then it was gone. Now it is not showing it at all. Maybe it is my pc parts Ryzen 5 3600 and a rx 6800 or win11.

Nah likely just some sort of either network issue, or maybe at a stretch a corruption on your Steam installation.

Remember you can always go to steam settings and clear your web cache, then restart and see if that improves.

[Exzyv]

Maybe you can try to disable [Append nicknames to friends' names] in Steam Setting - Friends & Chat if you have it enabled.