Steam client freezing after exiting games

[Bonder]

I am post more for bug reporting than seeking solutions.

I have see this with several different games over the last couple months. When I exit a game steam will freeze for 5-10 seconds. It is not going unresponsive like it does when installing a game and one of the hdd is spinning up (I have all games and the client on 1 ssd). Steam is simply frozen. Attempting to click while it is frozen will take those actions after it unfreezes.

Also, it is not a computer hardware or resource issue. My computer has high performance parts with minimal programs running. I have done trouble shooting without any clear reason for the cause.

[Cafemyst]

You might have to clear the download and web browser cache, or you might have to close steam webservers in task manager, these solutions helped me in the past! Hopefully this works.

[Bonder]

For anyone that also found this issue, it seems to occur when steam is idle for a period of time. To restore activity to your library, simply move your mouse over the steam menu at the top.

Edit: I cannot mark my own response as the answer. This is the solution.

[Iceira]

You make a mistake here, and ruleout things, i can do same with other ways, proof with spare pc or friends laptop, that this is not a into steam issue and this is your pc, technicaly i dont care where the issue is, i just help you to ruleout steam and isp and own router maybe and you actual did it , i can also say proof this is from steam or ISP both ways goes here, i look at this from a network point of view, if you can strike 2 out is a hell alot better then not know who or where it come from.

gl with it.

[Bonder]

This wont accomplish anything saying this to you, but I will anyway.

I worked as a QA analyst for 6 years. What I posted here, was my findings after testing this issue over 2 months. I did not post everything I tested.
Also, it is very difficult to understand what you were saying. Try using google translate instead of typing a second language.

[Azure Fang]

Valve doesn't really read these forums. They're user forums first and foremost. If you want to report any kind of issue, go through support directly.

As to Steam pausing on game close, this is normally related to Steam Cloud Sync. Steam needs to enumerate and upload changes made to designated files and folders whenever you exit a game (rather than live updates). If you close a game that has a large number of, or otherwise singularly large files that have been altered as part of the save, such as notorious offenders No Man's Sky (before they started excluding local cache uploads), Fallout: New Vegas, or Fallout 4, or the save files are on a low performance drive, Steam will seem to hang while bogged down with the update process. I can't guarantee that this is what you are experiencing, but this is a long-running issue that is as much the developer's fault (poorly configured remote cache manifests uploading unnecessary data) as it is Steam's and follows what you've described.

EDIT: And I don't even have to unblock the reply you responded to to know it's Iceira based on your response. Maybe I need to take a break from the forums if I can identify a blocked post by the response it garners...

[LComeno]

This will sound odd, but did you update your Nvidia driver to the lastest ones about the same, if not exactly before your games started acting differently or just totally crashing? All 900 of my games are crashing as soon as they get loaded, due to Steam crashing whenever I load a game. Been this way for days, the stress ending up with this old lady in the hospital. *sigh*

30 yrs online, build my own computers, test games for Devs and have only had this happen one other time around a year ago. Again, Steam crashed when I'd try to play a game. This happened after I updated Nvidia drivers. That time I got lucky and I was able to go back to the previous driver. This time, nothing has worked over the past 4 days of trying.

Today I deleted Steam, I deleted Nvidia. I then reinstalled both and have redownloaded a few of my games. Everything is working fine again, as if it never happened. I do hope Steam and Nvidia will work together on this. I posted many places about the issue, but have never gotten help. I had many accuse me of lying as it HAS to be something else, but today, proved I was correct in what was causing me problems last year and worse with the latest Nvidia driver.

For the geeks. The year ago and new Nvidia drivers have an unstable nvcontainer.exe file. Steam is fine and works fine, until I'd try to play a game, then everything would crash. Last, the nvcontainer file would bring up a txt file telling me what was wrong. I have it if anyone wants to see it. From crashes last year and yesterday.

I am running an i9, 32 RAM, 3080 RTX.