Steam is running, but not showing on screen

[viee]

Hey guys, I'm on Windows 8 and for some reason, whenever I click the steam icon, it runs but it does not display on the screen. Can you help me please?

[Triple]

Open up Task Manager.
Find Steam.exe.
Right click on it and "End Process".
Re launch Steam.

Edit: I think your game window might not be on your monitor, perhaps you dragged it off to the side of the screen?

[Satoru]

can you alt-tab it?

[viee]

That doesn't help and i cant alt-tab it in

[:3]

Originally posted by ɹǝlƃᴉԀ ɹᴉS:

Hey guys, I'm on Windows 8 and for some reason, whenever I click the steam icon, it runs but it does not display on the screen. Can you help me please?

Steam is getting stuck initializing and is not getting to the point where it will draw. What are your computer specs, and what programs do you have running in the background?

[viee]

so will i have to end some task running it background? And I have pretty poor specs for a gaming PC but the ram is 8gb.

[viee]

also i forgot to mention that when it first opens it shows the friends and what they are doing and such like playing a game and chatting and when i hover over the steam icon the the tab it shows my steam games

[:3]

Originally posted by ɹǝlƃᴉԀ ɹᴉS:

so will i have to end some task running it background? And I have pretty poor specs for a gaming PC but the ram is 8gb.

Steam should not have an issue finding space with 8 GB of ram so it is more likely it is getting blocked by some firewall, what are you using for security?

[:3]

Originally posted by ɹǝlƃᴉԀ ɹᴉS:

also i forgot to mention that when it first opens it shows the friends and what they are doing and such like playing a game and chatting and when i hover over the steam icon the the tab it shows my steam games

Intresting so what your saying is steam is indeed open and you can view it on the task bar but when you select it as your active window it does not show up?

[viee]

yeah, i dont what know happened

[viee]

oh i got it fixed, it was just off screen, lol. But thanks for you help

[The Real Ryan Goblin]

what you neeed to do is delete steam, delete all of your games and pray to gaben every day and buy all of valve games on the gaben website and then reinstal steam and it will work if you prayed to gaben EVERY DAY

[viee]

yeah! But he is wizard not boomer! (i have no idea where that came from XD)

[Dimi, uai yu du dis tu mi?]

Originally posted by Triple:

Open up Task Manager.
Find Steam.exe.
Right click on it and "End Process".
Re launch Steam.

Edit: I think your game window might not be on your monitor, perhaps you dragged it off to the side of the screen?

Thanks you so much man, what a dumb problem XD

[Doodlebob]

Tried every solution/fix out there. Eventually fixed it by just snapping a separate window to the side and choosing Steam window to juxtapose it.....Yup.