Steam doesn't even load on my PC-did I overdo it?

[capega68]

(I'm writing this from my laptop, where I have the same games I have on my PC downloaded by the way.)

Steam has treated me fairly well except for some random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (such as leaving behind an undeletable 0mb file once) from time to time, but I think I accidentally ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up around 2 days ago.

As a Hearts of Iron IV player I have the moral obligation to have a ♥♥♥♥ ton of mods, and since I play on two different devices, sometimes Steam Cloud has an oopsie daisie when synchronizing and I have to re-download the entire game, including the mods. I've done this several times by now, and leaving it a day to download resolved the problem without further action.

This same situation happened around a week or two ago, so I did the usual-try to download the missing files, steam says some ♥♥♥♥ got corrupted, I uninstall, and I reinstall. Two days ago, after downloading the main game I had to download around 122GB of mods. Once the download was finished, I closed Steam, shut off my PC and went to sleep.

Yesterday comes, I boot up my computer to do the last assignment of the course, and check whether HoI IV is ready to be run for the night, when I would host an MP game with friends. Turns out, Steam takes about two entire hours to actually open. Things aren't better when it finally does, since it is laggy as hell and it freezes several times. I somehow manage to stand by long enough for the library to open, and once it does, I run HoI4-surprisingly it goes smoothly; all my mods are there and the game itself runs just fine.

After closing the game I try to delete the download cache, and I manage to. However, during the process, I remember seeing a brief popoup saying 'cleaning unsuccesful' or something along the lines of that, before it closed itself. Steam was as just as slow, if not even more. I did it again-this time there was no popup, but it didn't solve the problem.

Today I reinstalled Steam, in case something was wrong-now Steam won't even log on to my account, endlessly trying to log user data. Suggestions?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Try this, go to where steam installed, delete everything EXCEPT for "steamapp" folder, and "Steam.exe" file once done try testing it out. Don't worry this doesn't delete your game, or mods.

If still have the issue, ensure that no 3rd party app is messing with steam client, files, or permission. Incase such as anti virus had setting tick to go deep scanning, which freeze the client, or slow down it's functionality.

If you're using HDD, please defrag HDD. Otherwise check your drive health to make sure it's ok using Crystal disk info, not mark, you want info.

Lastly can try checking for system errors, open command prompt as admin, type in without quotes "sfc /scannow" this will check for errors, if it find any errors you need to "RESTART" PC this will flush any issues out, and take affect of the fixes when get back into windows.

Best of luck.

[capega68]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Try this, go to where steam installed, delete everything EXCEPT for "steamapp" folder, and "Steam.exe" file once done try testing it out. Don't worry this doesn't delete your game, or mods.

If still have the issue, ensure that no 3rd party app is messing with steam client, files, or permission. Incase such as anti virus had setting tick to go deep scanning, which freeze the client, or slow down it's functionality.

If you're using HDD, please defrag HDD. Otherwise check your drive health to make sure it's ok using Crystal disk info, not mark, you want info.

Lastly can try checking for system errors, open command prompt as admin, type in without quotes "sfc /scannow" this will check for errors, if it find any errors you need to "RESTART" PC this will flush any issues out, and take affect of the fixes when get back into windows.

Best of luck.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try once I get back home and hopefully report back good news.

[capega68]

Thanks both for the advice-at the end I was forced to uninstall since it was impossible to even access the files manually. I reinstalled steam and it seems the problem was solved, even though it sucks to have to install everything again.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by capega68:

Thanks both for the advice-at the end I was forced to uninstall since it was impossible to even access the files manually. I reinstalled steam and it seems the problem was solved, even though it sucks to have to install everything again.

What do you mean "impossible to even access the files manually"?

Was there something stopping you from doing anything in steam folder? Please note you have steam not running to be able to delete files in steam folder. As you can't delete files that apps are running, and using.

[capega68]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by capega68:

Thanks both for the advice-at the end I was forced to uninstall since it was impossible to even access the files manually. I reinstalled steam and it seems the problem was solved, even though it sucks to have to install everything again.

What do you mean "impossible to even access the files manually"?

Was there something stopping you from doing anything in steam folder? Please note you have steam not running to be able to delete files in steam folder. As you can't delete files that apps are running, and using.

It wasn't running, I assure you. My computer would freeze upon attempting to open folders such as steamapps, and after a few minutes would close documents.