My steam crashes immediately after logging me into my account

[Shushu]

Whenever I try to launch steam it immediately crashes after it logs me in to my account. Here is a list of things I have tried:

- Reinstalling steam
- Restarting my pc
- Installing steam on different drive
- Deleting the "appcache" folder in steam files
- Using a fresh account
- Starting steam without an internet connection

I linked a video of what happens when I launch steam
Thanks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/975122612420231211/975122656917598319/2022-05-14_20-43-32.mp4

[diabetes]

Having the exact same issue here. Everything was fine a few days ago, but apparently after the most recent update I have the same symptoms. I also tried all of the exact same troubleshooting steps you have performed.

[vadalia]

Same thing's happening to me

[Jerry]

Many users have reported, that it might be a conflict with AMD graphic drivers. In most cases, it helped to un- and reinstall them.

[pgeerkens]

Same issue here. Both ETW and the Steam App were working fine this morning, until Steam forced a Steam upgrade about an hour ago. Since then I cannot run either ETW or the Windows Steam App, hence why I am now connected through a browser.

After the issue persisted I forced a hard reboot, which carried with it a Windows upgrade, unfortunately, so I have no easy means to back out changes to a configuration this morning. However I can confirm that the Windows upgrade **followed** the initial and persisting issues with the Steam App and TW games. This computer was in use for work all morning, so definitely didn't upgrade or restart prior to the Steam issues starting.

[donniedarkwad]

Has been happening to me since yesterday as well. Tried all the fixes you did...nothing.

[<NOS> Pasky]

I also have this problem. I have a Core I5 and GeForce GTX on my laptop.

[jerrycooper]

Update of client did the same for me. After 10 sec of run, steam client shuts down.
win 10, core i7

[donniedarkwad]

Had a reply from steam support, essentially was told to do all the fixes that i've already tried. has anyone had any luck? steam is still crashing on startup for me. no access to games...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

[crash_pr]

Same here..
I see dumps generated on C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\dumps
on Windows event Viewer I see the following being generated

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Steam Client Service service to connect.

The Steam Client Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Uninstall and reinstall still same issues

[pgeerkens]

Originally posted by crash_pr:

on Windows event Viewer I see the following being generated

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Steam Client Service service to connect.

The Steam Client Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

I'm not seeing any event like that in Event Viewer. What Event Log did you find it in?

[FranбушекTemp]

try to turn off windows defender real time protection
stock settings, no overclocks everything on default (cpu,gpu and memory)
update your driver nvidia or amd
try to uninstall last windows updates
reinstall your windows

my config is i5 8600k gpu GTX1060 6gb 16 gb ddr4 1 SSD 1 SSD_M.2 and 1 HDD windows 10 updated, zero problems here on logging in

[crash_pr]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4417479689916693933/
Removing and reinstalling the AMD GPU driver fixed it for me