Problems with Steam showing blank shortcut icons for your games?

[Nordschleife]

Here's the solution which worked for me having an empty steam/games folder (the folder where the ICO files reside usually) after I reinstalled Steam. I'm using Windows 10.

Go to Library - Games. Select the game you want to fix the blank shortcut icon for. Right click on the game, select Properties. Select the "Local Files" tab. Click the button "Verify Integrity Of Game Cache". After verifying has finished (it may take a while) a new game icon has been created in your Steam installation steam/games folder. Right click on the blank icon, select Properties and change the icon by hitting the "Change Icon..." button, navigating to and selecting the newly created icon file. Hit "OK" twice and have fun!

[Hybrid]

引用自 freilin43：

this didn't work for me but i found something that is simple and i believe will work for most problems. ( my problem was that i moved steam to a different drive by reinstalling it).

Right click on game with no icon-> select properties > Make sure you are on the "web document" tab > Select "change icons" > Select browse > Go to where steam folder is and open it ( F: drive for me ) > Go down and open folder named "steam" ( if you keep going down you will see the steam icon this isn't the one you need but this can be used as a shortcut if you delete the steam shortcut as well. You need the folder named steam ) > Open "games" folder > chose the icon you need and double click > Select "OK" > Select "Apply"

there you go do this with any other game from steam with no icon

Thank you!!! This fix worked for me, holy hell that was such an ordeal for such an easy fix, haha. Thanks again!

[Excogitator]

This is all great but I have a thousand icons in my game file and it's near impossible to find the correct one because some turdblossom thought it would be fine to name them all "kjfds876fds876fds876fds87fds786fd7s8f67d8s" or some such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I have 3 Hitman games with no icons and I can only find the one icon that's already being used by the 4th hitman game. I don't even know what the other icons look like so it's a true exercise in futility. Is there some way for my computer to recognize the appropriate icon?

[Excogitator]

引用自 DurgeDriven：

gawd ....verify each folder you kidding..........

Easier way

Open all your Steam Libary\Steamapps\Common folders in windows explorer
Open blank shortcuts location if not desktop

Open each common\game and browse to game *.exe
Create new shortcut, in W10 it will go to desktop
You can then drag back into any start menu folder and force it there if you wish
( needs common admin rights " say yes" )

Either way rename your new shortcuts ( copy paste names from blank shortcuts or re-type)

Delete blank shortcuts

Bonus is any game that uses 32/64bit exes will boot one up....steam won't ask you anymore which exe to use ;)

Then you have shortcuts linked to the folders like any normal standalone app
Back them up, drop into a fresh OS , all game menu done in seconds


P.S.


W!0 make a backup of......

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\GAMES ( whatever you call folder )

IF you use CLASSIC SHELL ( brilliant for multi level start menu ) make backup of ..........

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ClassicShell\Pinned


If you drop those 2 in fresh W10 you have all icons whether steam ones go blank or not ;)

None of this makes any sense to me. I have no idea what you're talking about. Is there some way to translate this techno babble into layman's terms. Slow, step by step, explicit instructions for regular people.

[SenZjo]

引用自 henvaen6：

My steam icons just disappeared today, but I found the solution by accident. Windows had apparently forgotten how urls work so the default app for opening them was reset. Just rightclick the shortcut and select properties. Then you'll see there's no app for opening a url so click select and pick "internet browser", this both made the shortcuts work and refreshed all the icons.
If you pick steam, which seems like the right choice all the shortcuts will open steam and have the steam icon, this includes all url shortcuts that are not shortcuts to steam games.

this worked for me...

[Bunz]

Thank you so much! I've been having problems with the icon on Foundation but now it's fixed! Thank you again!

[Frieren]

Ok so even though this topic is hella old now I have read through most of these replies and I think I have found the best solution. Ater this happened to me a long time ago I figured out how to fix it and it literally only takes a few seconds.

1) Right click on the broken icon and select properties.

2) Click on the web document tab up top and then click on the change icon button.

3) Next, to look for icons in this file click the browse button and navigate to the drive you have steam installed on and then follow the file tree as follows

D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games

(( Your steam install directory may differ from mine slightly but once you get to the steam folder it should be the same. If your finder is set up weird set it to view as large or extra large icons.))

4) Find the broken icon in the window and click on it then click on open.

5) Click on the icon in the window then click on ok then click apply and that's it your done.

(( Special notes, the steam\steam\games folder only contains icons for the games you currently have installed on steam. After trying to track down a better solution in the past and only finding methods that take forever I found a better way. My current set up to avoid this issue and to help with digging through all the icons looking for a specific game is as follows.))

First I made a desktop shortcut to the folder path that contains all my game icon files. Secondly as huge of a pain the the F***** A**** as it was I renamed all my game icons to actually match the game title. Yes, it took a while, like well forget that S*** it took forever, but I grabbed a cup of coffee sat down and went through them all and finished it. To eliminate any future issues with this I created a folder inside the D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games and named it installed games and moved all the icons that I just renamed into this folder. Now any time I install a new game I go into the steam\steam\games folder rename the new icon and move it into the installed folder.

One last mention on this if you have trouble finding the icon to the game in the initial steps just look at the little icon picture next to the name of the game in your steam library list. Yes, I realize that it is a small picture but it should help you and if all else fails google the steam game icon image and look for that. This should go without saying but if you ever get another broken icon follow the initial steps in this post and then navigate to this folder D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games\installed games grab your icon and go.

I hope this helps anyone or saves them even a little bit of time I remember how frustrating it was to me and how much time it took to solve originally.

[Vi Hieu]

Just got this problem today, all of my game icons are blank, and the OP's solution worked for me, but I shall change it a little bit.
1. Delete all broken shortcuts.
2. Open Steam.
3. Go to LIBRARY, right-click on the game with broken shortcut icon, click Properties.
4. Go to LOCAL FILES tab, click VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES... and quickly click Cancel(it a waste of time waiting for Steam to check you game files, they should be fine). Close Properties window.
5. Return to LIBRARY, right-click on the game with broken shortcut icon again, this time choose Create Desktop Shortcut.
6. Check your desktop, your game shortcuts should return with the correct icons.
My solution should help reducing your precious time browsing for the right icons in Steam/steam/games folder after verifying your games.
(Sorry if I made any grammar mistake )

[cult11]

引用自 Vi Hiếu：

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4. Go to LOCAL FILES tab, click VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES... and quickly click Cancel
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Great tip, Thank you, gonna save me a lot ot time (after win reinstall) not having to completely verify every single game just to get the icon downloaded

I didn't know that first thing verifying does, is checking whether the icon file at "c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games\" exists. Next time I'm backing this folder up :)

When you create desktop shortcut, Steam really should check, whether it has the icon file downloaded or not

[Vi Hieu]

引用自 cult11：

引用自 Vi Hiếu：

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4. Go to LOCAL FILES tab, click VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES... and quickly click Cancel
....

Great tip, Thank you, gonna save me a lot ot time (after win reinstall) not having to completely verify every single game just to get the icon downloaded

I didn't know that first thing verifying does, is checking whether the icon file at "c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games\" exists. Next time I'm backing this folder up :)

When you create desktop shortcut, Steam really should check, whether it has the icon file downloaded or not

Yep Steam should do that everytime an user try to create a shortcut from Steam, instead we have to verify our game files for Steam to download just an icon.
Anyway I'm glad I could help, every problem is a pain, but a solution that takes too much time isn't the best solution too.

[byebye]

Hey 3 Years later you are still helping people thank you man worked here.

[Alcasser]

引用自 henvaen6：

My steam icons just disappeared today, but I found the solution by accident. Windows had apparently forgotten how urls work so the default app for opening them was reset. Just rightclick the shortcut and select properties. Then you'll see there's no app for opening a url so click select and pick "internet browser", this both made the shortcuts work and refreshed all the icons.
If you pick steam, which seems like the right choice all the shortcuts will open steam and have the steam icon, this includes all url shortcuts that are not shortcuts to steam games.

Tks a lot bro, it worked for me. love u!

[MrMan59]

Thanks B

[Slime]

Hello, so my steam shotcut icons are the globe picture because I put em in a folder(DONT PUT THEM IN A FOLDER) and whenever I do exactly what you are all saying I get the correct icon n such but when I click apply, nothing happens. Ive tried ok-ok the cancel-ok and the original ok-apply. I need help

[Slime]

ok ok so it seems to be only some of my game icons. in fact the ones I put in the folder that changed I cant even put their picture on other things. but the ones that didnt change their icons are ok.

[Superd00ps]

引用自 henvaen6：

My steam icons just disappeared today, but I found the solution by accident. Windows had apparently forgotten how urls work so the default app for opening them was reset. Just rightclick the shortcut and select properties. Then you'll see there's no app for opening a url so click select and pick "internet browser", this both made the shortcuts work and refreshed all the icons.
If you pick steam, which seems like the right choice all the shortcuts will open steam and have the steam icon, this includes all url shortcuts that are not shortcuts to steam games.

This fixed my issue. Thanks!