Steam Freezing?

[k1ng_alex]

So today my steam client update and decided to break everything.

my specs are 

CPU amd 4100 OC to 4.2GHZ

AMD 5830 OC to 925/1175

6GB ddr3 

WD 250Gb hard drive

Everything was running smooth and fine last night but today , ugh , every so often id get a full game freeze it would last around 30 seconds then be good for about 5 minutes.

My loading times have almost doubled , you click "play" in steam , steam brings up its loading window, then it just sits there for a good solid 5 minutes no matter what game i load.

Thoughts? 

[Katorice]

is it just steam that slowed down like that? (the only application?)

in that case, I would reinstall steam

[Leonard]

Do a few things....

1. verify integrity of game cache
2. restart steam then shut it down again
3. then navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam and ONLY delete appcache folder and ClientRegistry.blob 
4. restart steam
5. check for improvements

[k1ng_alex]

23 hours ago, Leonard said:

Do a few things....

1. verify integrity of game cache
2. restart steam then shut it down again
3. then navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam and ONLY delete appcache folder and ClientRegistry.blob 
4. restart steam
5. check for improvements

ive narrowed it down to a dying hard drive , steam encounters "drive write errors" when i reinstall my games 

[Leonard]

2 hours ago, k1ng_alex said:

ive narrowed it down to a dying hard drive , steam encounters "drive write errors" when i reinstall my games 

Try this.