Latest Steam client causing input device freezes?

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Has anybody else experienced similar issue since the last Steam update (yesterday's, 3/8)?

My computer will, at random instances, stop responding to either keyboard or mouse input. In fact, the mouse keeps "reconnecting" while this happens.

Hasn't ever happened before. I thought it a general issue, but managed to determine that the freezes occur when "Steam Client Bootstrapper" momentarily ceases responding.

Gets pretty annoying, to say the least.

Any ideas or suggestions?

[_I_]

if windows says the mouse/keyboard is disconnecting/reconnecting, its not steams fault

if its usb, it could be the wire, or hub/power related
if using a hub, try with it directly connected to the pc
if no hub, try a different keyboard/mouse

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Originally posted by _I_:

if windows says the mouse/keyboard is disconnecting/reconnecting, its not steams fault

Wasn't Windows itself, I'm using a mouse with some diagnostic capacity.

Originally posted by _I_:

if its usb, it could be the wire, or hub/power related
if using a hub, try with it directly connected to the pc
if no hub, try a different keyboard/mouse

I've tried switching the USB ports (my mainboard has three different USB controller circuits on it). Didn't do anything.

First happened in Company of Heroes 2 - the game runs, but I can't do anything until the "freeze" passes.

Just had it happen once outside of the game, while Steam was up.

No issues when Steam is shut down so far.

Thanks for taking time to suggest potential issue, though - wish it was applicable :)

[Scrotal Recall]

This is a longshot with this thread being so old... but did you ever manage to fix this? I'm having a very similar problem.

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Originally posted by Scrotal Recall:

This is a longshot with this thread being so old... but did you ever manage to fix this? I'm having a very similar problem.

Got it fixed, but unfortunately don't remember how. Sorry :(

[Scrotal Recall]

Thanks anyway

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Sorry again :(

Had some time to try to recall, and I -think- I did a full reinstall of the client and that fixed it. Meaning "uninstall Steam", redownload the installer, then run it. Just make sure to move the steamapps/common folder that contains all the games to a backup location. It should drastically save on re-downloading, and Steam should recognize the files after you move them back to the new steamapps/common folder.

A few might need "verify file integrity," but in my experience almost all worked out.

[Scrotal Recall]

Ahh, I already tried that. No dice. I'm fairly certain I've narrowed it down to something to do with drivers, even though my drivers are all seemingly up to date. My freezing is happening whenever I plug/unplug or enable/disable a device. USB, HDMI, network adapter, etc. Strange thing is, it ONLY seems to affect Steam and any games running while Steam is running. If Steam is closed, no freezes. If it's open, I get a 3-5 second freeze. Sometimes multiple freezes back to back. So weird. Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to reply again though!

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Sucks.

I wish my memory was better, but I'm pretty sure I did not mess with drivers (other than trying different ports for mouse and keyboard, which did not seem to do much).

I absolutely think it is something to do with Steam (kind of worrying why it would mess so deeply with system resources), as just like you I had no similar issues when Steam was not running.

Anyway, good luck. Hopefully you'll run into a solution shortly. I know how annoying it is :(