Please Help! Steam "Error Code 53" Seemingly no Solution!!

[Sir SoloDolo]

I have been a long time steam user, and have recently been playing Company of Heroes 2 as well as Civ 5. Last night i tried to play both of these games and they came up with the same Error message "Steam Servers are top busy right now (Error Code 53)" I tried uninstalling steam as a whole, still nothing. Steam support is useless. I've always stood by Steam&Valve cause I think they are so great! But after this I'm not sure anymore, when I look this issue up on other forums the question goes unanswered. It's as if there isn't any real solution. I've turned off Firewall, everything you could imagine. If you have Expirience with this problem PLEASE help. Many Thanks
-Parker

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Nguyên văn bởi datrillion:

I had this problem but then I read on another thread that I should turn off Real Time Scanning on McAfee, did it and problem instantly went away.

That worked for me. Thanks so much!

[i3uckethe4d]

Nguyên văn bởi datrillion:

I had this problem but then I read on another thread that I should turn off Real Time Scanning on McAfee, did it and problem instantly went away.

thank you so much bro, this helped instantly, much much gratitude

[Kuthaxi]

All you have to do on your computer is go to Search: Mcafee. click Real-time Scanning, hit OFF. Run the game that isn't working, exit the game after it works, and you can go ahead and enable Mcafee real-time scanning again!.

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[Acko]

Nguyên văn bởi Micheal Bay:

If you were like me and didn't have an active McAfee account and therefore could not edit your anti virus options, deleting the program works fine to, and you can keep Real Time Scanning on for almost every anti virus software apart from McAfee

Yep, this definitelly works for mcaffee. They should include this message in here : https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9851-PFHN-9932&l=english&steamid=76561198009276326&errortype=EResult&errorvalue=53

[CornéD]

Turning McAffee Realtime Scanning off for a few minutes definitely helps.

[Your Favorite]

Nguyên văn bởi datrillion:

I had this problem but then I read on another thread that I should turn off Real Time Scanning on McAfee, did it and problem instantly went away.

INSTANT SUCCESS. You are a scholar, gentleman, savior, and a gift of the heavens above!

[Rudiarose]

Thanks the turning off the realtime worked hope I do not have to do that all the time.

[Max gamer]

Nguyên văn bởi datrillion:

I had this problem but then I read on another thread that I should turn off Real Time Scanning on McAfee, did it and problem instantly went away.

Thanks man! That worked for me!

[jjfrey]

ughAKLFJAGJK!!!! I am sooooo frustrated! Everyone is saying turning McAfee off works but I did that and much more so many times and NOTHING is working!

[eram]

Nguyên văn bởi jjfrey:

ughAKLFJAGJK!!!! I am sooooo frustrated! Everyone is saying turning McAfee off works but I did that and much more so many times and NOTHING is working!

You should get another AV and uninstall mcafee and see if that fixes it. Completely remove it.

[BeanBruncle]

Nguyên văn bởi datrillion:

I had this problem but then I read on another thread that I should turn off Real Time Scanning on McAfee, did it and problem instantly went away.

do you wanna have my first born child? but i might not be able to after how hard i hit myself after finding out how easy this fix was...

[GuiltyOfPleonasm_]

Nguyên văn bởi datrillion:

I had this problem but then I read on another thread that I should turn off Real Time Scanning on McAfee, did it and problem instantly went away.

thanks so much, really helped!

[Gernhardt Reinluntzen]

Nguyên văn bởi jjfrey:

ughAKLFJAGJK!!!! I am sooooo frustrated! Everyone is saying turning McAfee off works but I did that and much more so many times and NOTHING is working!

i have Norton and i tryied out everything there is to try out and still no solution !

[George L Bush]

If you don't have mcafee installed or you're still having problems with Error code 53 even after your real time protection is turned off I suggest you run a chk disk... here are the steps:

1. Open cmd as administrator
2. Type chkdsk /f d: [change d with whatever lettered drive your steam and or steam games are on]
3. Hit enter and wait a bit.
4. Type y and hit enter again when asked.
5. Now you have to wait for the whole thing to finish. It may take up to 10 minutes depending on how badly your data was corrupted.

You will know when it's done as a bunch of numbers showing your memory space and what not is display. There should even be a message which states that "no futher action needs to be taken."

Note: While this is going on, your drive will be dismounted so if you are the type of person who splits his drives up, you're in luck. This problem is usual cause by a crash resulting in corruption of exFAT or w/e.

PS: I know this is a very old thread but I recently had this problem and none of the solutions I found on the internet helped me fix it so I had to perform experiments. Since this was the first result that came up on google, I decided to leave my solution here so others can see it.