Steam won't open, needs to be online to update

[CompleteTrash]

So, I try uninstalling and reinstalling steam to fix some issues I was having with it. Now I keep getting the message that "Steam needs to be online to update." No idea what is wrong with it.

Any idea how I can fix it, or check the logs to find out?

[Iceira]

did you trigger a steam update and then it faill with it and now you have no connection, ?

rename old "steam.exe.old" to main and see if that help or run as admin onetime at steam.exe.

[CompleteTrash]

Iceira W10 の投稿を引用：

did you trigger a steam update and then it faill with it and now you have no connection, ?

rename old "steam.exe.old" to main and see if that help or run as admin onetime at steam.exe.

yeah, I didn't understand that.

[CompleteTrash]

lucky の投稿を引用：

I wrote this post earlier today. Any support you can offer would be great. In short, reinstalling Steam won't make any difference. If you want ALL your Steam games to work again, you need to do a thorough FORMAT of your hard disk, and then reinstall your Windows Operating System. Then download and setup your Steam installation and games again. Using a dedicated gaming PC can help streamline this commonplace problem.

STEAM ANTI GAME SHARING ENFORCEMENT SOFTWARE (APPS). https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3758850305395497063/

Well, all my steam games are on a seperate hard drive from my PC.

And is that really the only solution?

[Iceira]

PC require that user know, is steam got a update, this is seen as steam try update and somehow got a problem with it , and now it wont even accept as been online.

Problem here is why, and you can try rename steam backup file if such is made.

and other solution can be a forced try to run as administrator on steam.exe ( to see if that help. )

Most will not use such long explanation, in what to do. ( pc is know for this, sometimes as user you are need to take actions on things goes wrong, and sometimes other things cause issue with other things, and sometimes its user that did not do or know other app or things can cause the problem, its simple not just one thing, and thern you think over it, steam has 250 to 350 millions of user online per day, thats mean alot of user it work for.

Most will not start over in new system, but even that is a option, and none here will stop you, but i can also say most will not even suggest such anymore, try see it as last option then you have wait long enough, and thats your call then that is.

gl with it.

[CompleteTrash]

Iceira W10 の投稿を引用：

PC require that user know, is steam got a update, this is seen as steam try update and somehow got a problem with it , and now it wont even accept as been online.

Problem here is why, and you can try rename steam backup file if such is made.

and other solution can be a forced try to run as administrator on steam.exe ( to see if that help. )

Most will not use such long explanation, in what to do. ( pc is know for this, sometimes as user you are need to take actions on things goes wrong, and sometimes other things cause issue with other things, and sometimes its user that did not do or know other app or things can cause the problem, its simple not just one thing, and thern you think over it, steam has 250 to 350 millions of user online per day, thats mean alot of user it work for.

Most will not start over in new system, but even that is a option, and none here will stop you, but i can also say most will not even suggest such anymore, try see it as last option then you have wait long enough, and thats your call then that is.

gl with it.

okay uh...translation. that englsih was pretty broken.

[MagicMight]

Instead of doing the traditional uninstall/reinstall do this:

Go to your Steam installation folder(i.e. C:\Program Files\Steam) and delete everything except steam.exe and the steamapps folder.

Then run Steam.exe.

My guess is that it is a configuration error and by deleting and letting steam fully rebuild your installation like this it might work.

All this is assuming, of course, that you actually have a working internet connection and you are facing no other issues with browsers and other applications.

[CompleteTrash]

MagicMight の投稿を引用：

Instead of doing the traditional uninstall/reinstall do this:

Go to your Steam installation folder(i.e. C:\Program Files\Steam) and delete everything except steam.exe and the steamapps folder.

Then run Steam.exe.

My guess is that it is a configuration error and by deleting and letting steam fully rebuild your installation like this it might work.

All this is assuming, of course, that you actually have a working internet connection and you are facing no other issues with browsers and other applications.

Tried that, and still got the same message

No problems with my wifi as far as I can tell.

[CompleteTrash]

Copied down the logs. Hope this helps

[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Startup - updater built Mar 15 2022 17:15:38
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] 1. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Verifying installation...
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Unable to read and verify install manifest C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\package\steam_client_win32.installed
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Verification complete
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Downloading update...
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Checking for available updates...
[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_win32
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] Download failed: http error 0 (media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_win32)
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] DownloadManifest - exhausted list of download hosts
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] failed to load manifest from buffer.
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] Failed to load manifest
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] Error: Download failed: http error 0
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] Saving metrics to disk (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\package\steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-01-11 14:52:42] Error: Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again.
[2023-01-11 14:52:53] Shutdown

[CompleteTrash]

Anyone got any advice on this?

[rawWwRrr]

CompleteTrash の投稿を引用：

Anyone got any advice on this?

CompleteTrash の投稿を引用：

[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_win32

What happens if you click on this link in your web browser? It should just cause it download the "steam_client_win32" file.

[CompleteTrash]

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

CompleteTrash の投稿を引用：

Anyone got any advice on this?

CompleteTrash の投稿を引用：

[2023-01-11 14:52:21] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_win32

What happens if you click on this link in your web browser? It should just cause it download the "steam_client_win32" file.

It installed, but won't open when I try to run it

[CompleteTrash]

Also, when I try to go to the link on Chrome, it won't load. Only works with other browsers like Firefox

[CompleteTrash]

Can anyone tell what's causing this from the logs? That's all I have to go on rn

[ddstargazer]

I'm having the same problem.

[Osawa Ascendant]

I've had the same problem for a couple of days now. Noticed it at first as many images and community content items refusing to load in Steam, followed someone's advice to nuke everything except for steam.exe and steamapps, ran into the same problem as you: it tried to 'update' to grab all the missing files, couldn't connect, kaboom.

Purged the entire installation at that point, thinking it must be corrupted files or registry entries, went to do full reinstall. Same issue, same errors in my log as those posted above. Changing my connection's DNS servers to Cloudflare's servers for both ipv4 and ipv6, running ipconfig /flushdns, and trying again seems to work at times. It was enough to finally get the install done and get me back in. Steam mostly works okay at this point, though community stuff and many images are still broken or missing all over the place.

Try to do a tracert on media.steampowered.com and see what kind of nonsense you get back. I'm largely having problems when hitting Akamai CDN hops no matter the route taken, as well as some odd routing loops from Comcast when following one particular route. I think gathering info is the best we're going to get at this point, which will hopefully lead someplace more useful soon.