(fixed) Steam process starts, but the app doesn't display - since today

[Amon Ynous]

EDIT: running Steam in compatibility mode with Windows 7 fixed it for me (I'm on windows 8.1)

Steam worked on my PC perfectly fine, I last used it yesterday.

Now I launch the app, a little window "Updating Steam" pops up - then nothing. In task manager all the processes start, but I can't see the app, not even in the taskbar. I already tried killing the process and restarting steam, restarting my PC, reinstalling steam - nothing helped.

Anyone know a fix or had this problem? Did some kind of update just come out today that broke something?

[Смертоносный гей]

I have the same problem, starting today, yesterday Steam worked fine and today I tried all the methods like you to open it, but for 5-6 hours now there is no response,I think Valve noticed and I hope they will fix it.

[Guts!!]

I have the same problem, I hope it's a steam error

[Mad Jacq]

Same exact problem! I don't think it's playing nice with the latest windows 10 update, personally. I got a strange firewall/Win Defender pop up on one of my games the other day just before this.

[Mad Jacq]

Found a fix in another thread:

Originally posted by Jessi:
What worked for me was the following.

Try the following: Kill steam via taskmanager.
Go here with File explorer: <your steam install location>\Steam\config

open the "loginusers.vdf" with notepad. It contains all steam accounts that have logged in at your computer.

look for your user and set "AllowAutoLogin" to "0". Save the file

Start steam again.

That worked for me.

[bidulless]

hello
may be another "gpu accelerated" issue...
while steam is not running , launch regedit.exe
and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam
find key GPUAccelWebViewsV2 and edit it, by using 0 instead of value 1
save and exit and launch steam
https://i.postimg.cc/HLwDktCx/Capture.jpg

it's more GPUAccelWebViewsV3 for new steam release xd

[Otto Man]

Thanks very much Mad Jacq. Same problem and that fix worked for me as well.
"loginusers.vdf" and set "AllowAutoLogin" to "0". Save the file.

[TomZ]

The edit to "loginusers.vdf" worked for me as well.

[Mad Jacq]

I can't take the credit. Like I said, it was all "Jessi" in that other thread. I'm just happy he got us fixed.

In other news steam support finally responded to my support ticket with the same old tired canned auto advice ::womp womp:: I didn't even get the chance to tell them in closing the ticket, "Hey! Thanks for nothing!" =P

[Amon Ynous]

Originally posted by Mad Jacq:

I can't take the credit. Like I said, it was all "Jessi" in that other thread. I'm just happy he got us fixed.

In other news steam support finally responded to my support ticket with the same old tired canned auto advice ::womp womp:: I didn't even get the chance to tell them in closing the ticket, "Hey! Thanks for nothing!" =P

What OS are you using? The fix didn't work for me and I'm trying to figure out if it's a OS issue.

[Mad Jacq]

Originally posted by Amon Ynous:

Originally posted by Mad Jacq:

I can't take the credit. Like I said, it was all "Jessi" in that other thread. I'm just happy he got us fixed.

In other news steam support finally responded to my support ticket with the same old tired canned auto advice ::womp womp:: I didn't even get the chance to tell them in closing the ticket, "Hey! Thanks for nothing!" =P

What OS are you using? The fix didn't work for me and I'm trying to figure out if it's a OS issue.

Windows 10

[demonaz]

It helped me - delete folders "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\config" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\logs" (making a backup before deleting) and try to start client