Having an issue with steam not stopping a game once it closes

[axe858]

Whenever I close any game via any method (alt 4, quitting from in game menu, task manager, etc) steam does not think the game as closed.
If I head to the library and manually click stop, it will just say stopping indefinitely. I have to completely restart steam to fix this issue.
This issue prevents me from reopening the game.
It happens on every game I own.
It randomly started happening 3 days ago.

Yes, I did restart my pc. Yes, I did uninstall and reinstall Steam.

[crunchyfrog]

Go to Steam settings and choose to clear you web browser cache and restart Steam.

That tends to clear up a few weird bits of behaviour.

If it still persists, you can always go to your Steam installation folder, and delte EVERYTHING EXCEPT steam.exe and the contents of your steamapps folder (as your games are there).

Then run steam.exe and it will automatically reacquire all the files it needs and should fix a load of issues with corruption.

For the future, try to mitigate issues like this by ensuring you close Steam properly BEFORE you close down your PC, and try not to use sleep mode as it can sometimes cause issues.

[axe858]

Thank you, I'll try that later and see if it works

I will note that the most heavily modded game I play (Baldurs Gate 3) is not having this issue

[76561199815609945]

sadly i dont know how to and now i can never play poppy playtime... :(

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by nightmarefox314:

sadly i dont know how to and now i can never play poppy playtime... :(

Well the answer's right there.

If you can't do this, close your system down. That fixes it too.

[Nanami]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.