Steam issues

[sMiLEy sLOth]

Ok...so for whatever reason steam is refusing to open. This isn't the first issue i've had with steam and its starting to really get on my nerves. Basically I tried to open Black Ops 2 and it wouldn't open. When I ended the task in task manager it kept opening itself again and crashing. I shutdown my PC hoping that it would all be OK when I turn my PC back on. It wasn't. Now steam just doesn't open. I click the icon on the taskbar and it looks like steam is going to open (windows 7 - icon changes to its "open" look), then it just goes back, as if I had never clicked steam. 

 

PLEASE HELP!!!

 

I have 4 days off from work so I REALLY want to be playing games.

 

p.s. I have uninstalled then re-installed steam and its still not opening.

[Origommi]

just steam support it, you get faster more reliable replies 

[Godlygamer23]

Yeah. Just contact Steam support. I honestly can't help you.

[sMiLEy sLOth]

just thought someone on here would know how to help. Its the weekend so what are the chances I'll get an answer today?

 

I have submitted my question to steam support but I'd still like a reply here. 

[Esivo]

I found these solutions online. 

 

http://www.skial.com/threads/steam-isnt-launching.35423/

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3079717

 

 

 

BTW restart your computer and I would suggest uninstalling Steam completely and installing every game again, if you haven't done it already.

[sMiLEy sLOth]

Still no reply from steam. Tried everything I could find on every forum and steam still wont open.

[sMiLEy sLOth]

Ok so steam just decided to start working again. No idea what I did but HAPPY DAYS!!!.....bed time -_-

[Godlygamer23]

Computers are weird at times. I had an issue with uninstalling Java that was solved by resetting my router.

[911^NEmeSis]

Check Steam forums specifically for your issue. I don't think I've ever heard of the one that you have before.

[sMiLEy sLOth]

Cheers for the replies people. Steam started working just in time for me to play some games for a couple of hours.

[BKCXb]

I have been having problems with steam also

 

First I kept getting the same april 1st update trying to install every time I turned on the machine or launched a game,until the april 25th update. It was just annoying, but it let me plat my games.

 

I'm 1000 plus hours into borderlands 2 and I started to wander what 1 was like because I skiped it. 

 

I downloaded it off of steam and it wouldn't launch :(

 

I checked Steam website for that problem nothing fixed it, checked Gearbox and 2k's website but everything was so old it was for Xp.

 

Never got it to launch, I figured the hell with it I'm not as invested in first one because I never played it, I'll fix it later over time. 

 

Went to play Borderlands 2 and it did the same thing(crash after the spash screen)

 

Got it to work again by deleting the appcach.exe file in steam rebooting and letting steam rebuild that file. :rolleyes:

 

When I got into borderlands 2, that used to run above 45fps at 5910 x 1080 with everthing on now is unplayable. :angry:

 

Went 3 days not being able to get my gaming fix!!!

 

Steam support responded with an Email on what to try but none of it worked.....

 

Gearbox tech support responded a few hours later, never even heard of that problem I was having, but they would try to get back to me.

 

Than steam started acting all wonky on me, so I thought it had to be a problem with steam.

 

I backed up my saved games to the steam cloud and my desktop just in case , than I uninstalled steam, which took out all my games :huh:

 

Rebooted, reinstalled steam, reinstalled my games and everything was back to normal and  the original borderlands worked fine also.

 

Borderlands 2 now sits at the 60fps cap I set on it because of all the reinstalled drives and trying out the new Beta Nvidia drives, I was happy about that!!