BUG: Steam no longer works after coming back from Win10 sleep

[c-*****]

This started about a week ago, which is when I started playing Palworld, so I thought it was a bug with that game.

But it isn't.

There is a new bug with Steam.

After playing.. any? game, then I put my computer to sleep.
When I come back to it and wake it up, I can no longer start any Steam game. I can't even start Steam!

Going into Task Manager, I can kill all Steam-related processes EXCEPT THE MAIN BACKGROUND PROCESS. Doesn't help - neither Steam nor any Steam game I've tried will start up.

I always have to restart my machine to be able to use Steam again.

When I restart, in the list of processing preventing the restart there is ALWAYS one with a generic icon with the name 't'. Sometimes there is also an unnamed Steam-icon'd process.

How do we fix Steam?

[c-*****]

Confirmed. What's the fix?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

If you had any store page open before your PC went to sleep, it can lead to this specific issue.

[Iceira]

Aient thats the problem then pc user have no clue what hibernation is, you cut the line with netwrok into steam and then you think steam has a issue.

This is a steam user problem, go away from store page and other steam user once in time said stay in own home library will fix it, go ahead confirm this, because we are not going to test this for you. ( if you dont know why it work there then think, things change at store page, in your home lib, it dont. )

So yes Steam user is the problem, what prevent you from exit steam. and test hibernation.

steam support will not even look at it, require steam exit you steam client and that also has consequence. ( so steam cant help you. )


and we are steam user here, this is not support.
plenty of post with this over 5 years atleast, no news here. ( other then a steam user notice home lib seem to can be the soluution. )

1
Problem with this is pc user lack of knowledge, you dont know what hibernation doing to connection

2
Steam cant fix this, then other user offpeak hours to update its pc, we dont want steam to exit then idle.

3
Not a windows issue with what steam do or dont do.

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user thats dont get it, you cut the store page connection, and steam change content on frontstore page everyday, this means you have outdated content, not a steam issue.

why bother tell this again and again.
because steam user dont read past post about it, and this is technicaly require skill pc user to notice whats wrong, or be education in some of this.a standard steam gamer user will never solve this by themself.

[c-*****]

引用自 Iceira：

because steam user dont read past post about it, and this is technicaly require skill pc user to notice whats wrong, or be education in some of this.a standard steam gamer user will never solve this by themself.

1. if this is always asked, then why isn't it pinned at the top of the group?

2. This only started for me 7 days ago. Up until then Steam worked fine, so something has changed.

[crunchyfrog]

It's always been recommended to NOT use sleep mode, as it can cause issues (especially if you use external hard drives and such).

I'd recommend always shutting down your PC.

[c-*****]

3. if those things were true, then either going into offline mode or closing the Steam UI should solve the problem. I just did both and the same error happens.

And again... this is brand new behaviour to me after 10+ years of using Steam, and 3+ years on this machine.

So something has changed - possibly in the last Steam update?

[Iceira]

How can we put, it, in steam eyes, Hibernation is not a steam problem. and many pc user dont use hibernations at all.

ps.
Dont forget we are steam user here, we are not in controll over in what steam see as vital information or if it get pinned down by them. ( if steam user was allowed this, then all get pinned down. )

Hibernation issue dont even makea top10 here at help & tips , any helper here can tell you that.

[Iceira]

引用自 c-*****：

3. if those things were true, then either going into offline mode or closing the Steam UI should solve the problem. I just did both and the same error happens.

And again... this is brand new behaviour to me after 10+ years of using Steam, and 3+ years on this machine.

So something has changed - possibly in the last Steam update?

Then you stand in home library and not store page , as we tried to tell you , other steam user in past post told us this.


its quite simple , you cut the connection to steam then you go hibernations.
if you dont graps this, then read about network gl with that.


and again we4 are over in educations and knowledge, and nothing i can do about that.

and feel free to test what has been said , even CF point out, so many ways to deal with it.


even "cSg|mc-Hotsauce" point it out , but he might dont want to explan why it is so, and he has every right to do so.

you need to know network and how it work.

windows really dont care what thirdpart app that is running., ( nothing they can do about. )
unless you want to take action in taskmanager app, and even this has consequence to shutdown apps.