ERROR CODE:-7 Unable to connect to server server may be offline or you may not be connected to internet

[Hawkward]

ERROR CODE:-7 Unable to connect to server server may be offline or you may not be connected to internet

This is exactly what it says when I try to do anything on steam... It started last night when I was buying a game.. that's the first time it happened, now it says it whenever I try do ANYTHING besides go to my library

BTW: I connected to steam on my browser to post this and this works just fine

[The Giving One]

So you can log in ok but you cannot buy anything right ?

Have you tried to change the download region yet if the above is correct ?

[Hawkward]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

So you can log in ok but you cannot buy anything right ?

Have you tried to change the download region yet if the above is correct ?

Hehe.... I just logged on and everything works now, I think it fixed itself... Wich is SUPER annoying

[Sammy]

hi

[TOBI]

????

[WizzoMagic]

Hello all,
For me, i had recently downloaded a VPN. This decided to install a .dll file called HMIPCore.dll, This was causing this problem, I recommend doing a complete virus scan this should remove the .dll as it is a backdoor used by hackers to access your computer. If your anti virus does not detect it then I would recommend using avast.

[★KaShi★]

:|D

[AllyPlayer]

same, everything is working but store

[RiO]

Originally posted by AllyPlayer:

same, everything is working but store

Servers are overloaded.
Recurring issue every weekend for the last weeks.

Not limited to the storefront only. Also affects parts of the community features.
E.g. the services that track Steamworks user stats and achievement unlocks.

This can cause unlocking of achievements to not register properly and may - depending on the individual game - screw you out of your achievement unlocks in a way that requires you to either replay a certain segment of the game to get them to register; or replay the entire game from scratch.
And if you're extremely unlucky and it's a game that does its own bookkeeping parallel to Steam and thinks an achievement should already have been unlocked and thus won't resend the request-to-unlock to the Steamworks API, then you're just outright screwed out of the achievement permanently.

Rule of thumb if you want to be safe:
As soon as you spot Steam being flaky, stop using it and try again later.

... which doesn't help if you're spending e.g. an entire afternoon in-game and only later figure out what was going on. Yes...

In that case: just stop using Steam on the weekends and during sales. Full stop.


No; Valve isn't going to do anything about this.
They have a long history of not giving a single toss about their downtime or erratic service problems.

[dBg]

2024 and I have this error