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Steam is a digital distribution platform launched by Valve Corporation in 2003.

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Steam game not starting

Sometimes a game on steam may not start up, so you may be able to get it working by:

Library>(Game that isn't loading)>Right click>Properties>Local files>Verify Integrity of Game Cache

It will take around 10> minutes to detect the bad files and replace them

Steam gets stuck on update

Steam updates sometimes get stuck at a certain ammount of percent, however, you can usually fix it by doing this:

C:\>Program>Steam and delete "clientregistry.blob"

or

C:\>Program (x86)>Steam and delete "clientregistry.blob"

This will delete your saved password for steam, and force it to re-download the Steam client update. This method usually always fix other problems with Steam, so it is usually a good idea to delete this whenever steam enocunters an error.

Steam will not launch at all

If Steam will not launch on a Windows 7 system (64 bit) you can try this trick. Delete the appcache directory found here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\appcache Restart steam it will then re-download and launch successfully.

Saving Steam games for re-install

If you're re-installing steam or ever need to uninstall and you want to save your games - move the folder steamapps too a new location like the desktop or Documents folder Depending on the size,It may take awhile...Grab a cup of tea once you have re-installed steam just start steam up once then exit and put the steamapps folder back

Offline Mode

For some reason, if your internet connection is limited (i.e. if ports required for Steam to run are closed), Steam will not start in offline mode and will return the following error:

Could not connect to steam network. This could be due to a problem with your internet connection, or with the Steam network. Please visit www.steampowered.com for more info.

Solution:

Step 1 : Find a proper network. Open Steam whilst internet connection is working.

Step 2 : Click "Steam" > Go Offline. Steam should now restart.

Steam offline mode should now work even with limited connection.

First Time Setup

When launching a freshly installed game on Steam for the first time the game will normally initiate "First Time Setup", installing DirectX, Visual Studio redistributable and .NET libraries. While you may be running the latest and greatest versions of these programs, especially if you're a Windoes 7 gamer, the individual games may still require specific versions of APIs like D3D10. More information on this can be found on this Steam forum post. Occasionally after carrying out first time setup you may find the root of your hard drive filled with a dozen or so "vcredist" files, these can be safely removed as they're temporary files created as part of the install and are meant to be cleaned up after the install is complete.