Steam crashes when I turn off my computer.

[MyBlueYoshiXP]

As the title implies, when I click on Shut Down in the Start Menu, it goes to the task Host (closing apps) screen. And when it goes to kill Steam, Steam crashes and an error appears, stating that Steam crashed due to a memory error, and then the codes for where it crashed, it's just annoying because i think i turned of my pc, until i find that it's still on and asking for me to press ok.

Hardware and Software:
Windows 10 Pro x64 22H2
installed on SteamDeck LCD 512 GB

Best Regards,
MyBluYoshi11 (aka axpuser)

[Carlos100]

Does it crash if you close steam first then shut down your pc?
Thats the normal thing to do

[Elucidator]

You should report such bugs here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/

Its fine if it errors; its closed at least, but still. Steam devs need to fix it.

[MyBlueYoshiXP]

Originally posted by Carlos100:

Does it crash if you close steam first then shut down your pc?
Thats the normal thing to do

No, when you close the main steam window the helper is still running, so when i click shutdown it shuts down all processes, so i think when the taskhost goes to shut down steam, Steam for some reason doesn't know how to shut down, so a memory error happens, and steam crashes.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Exit out of steam fully before shutting down your pc. If you don't do it that way files can get corrupted.

In the client go to steam then exit.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Carlos100:

Does it crash if you close steam first then shut down your pc?
Thats the normal thing to do

No, that's NOT the normal thing to do. For many people, Steam just runs in the background, and nobody closes such programs before doing a shutdown.

That's also why operating systems like Windows tell running programs to shut down, before shutting down the system itself -- that way, software can still do whatever they want to do, like Steam properly closing down an ongoing download.

There's usually a timeout on those, though -- if the application still hasn't vanished after some time, it will be forcibly killed so the shutdown can proceed. That's why programs like a word processor will either just discard work-in-progress changes, or store them into a separate file that they can detect on the next launch; interacting with the user about saving is usually too time-consuming.

[riotservice]

I have this issue too, and agree that ‘exiting’ Steam is not something I would consider normally required behavior. It’s a new issue in the last roughly two months or so at least for me, and I have never once exited Steam manually before shutting down. My assumption was the Steam client and/or helper didn’t like something about a windows 11 update, since those are usually a mess anyway. (Or a Steam client update, normally much better than Microsoft.)

However, I noticed that it only happens when I shut down immediately after I stop playing a game. If I give it a few minutes, Windows shuts down normally. When the error does occur, the synchronization process completes and it looks like nothing is happening, but something is still going that errors out during shutdown. It hasn’t bothered me too much but I saw someone else reported it so maybe I’ll actually try to hunt it down.