Steam is broke

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 25th, 2007, 23:05

Whenever I open Steam it'll open normally, then after a few seconds it'll report that it has encountered a problem and needs to close, blah blah.

Restarting didn't fix it, neither did deleting clientregistry.blob, and I'm hovering over the NUKE STEAM AND START AGAIN button now...

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 25th, 2007, 23:50

I System Restore'D to the 21st, as it was definitely working then, and it's still broke.

I reaally don't want to have to nuke Steam (and someone on the steampowered forums having the same problem said it doesn't fix it anyway)...

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » December 25th, 2007, 23:56

Something else fucking with it?

What's the module name if you can choose to view more details?

Also, you havn't installed the .net 3.0 framework have you? That breaks stuff.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 26th, 2007, 0:07

buzzmong wrote:Also, you havn't installed the .net 3.0 framework have you? That breaks stuff.

I don't know... how do I check >_>

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 26th, 2007, 0:18

There's a field here saying Modname wininet.dll, if that's the bit you're on about.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 26th, 2007, 0:33

Oh fucking bollocks, uninstalling steam, running crap cleaner to clean the registry and then re-installing STILL didn't fix it.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » December 26th, 2007, 12:06

Well, wininet.dll is a windows file and according to MS it's used by IE.

So, I'm going to say there's nothing wrong with Steam, as it tries to use IE, I deduce that IE or something related to IE is broken.

NB: As I mentioned the .net3.0, you'll find it located under Add/Remove programs.
(however, I apparently have it installed on this computer according to the list, the direct dl off the ms site fucked my uni computer, but this one is working fine and was installed via Update iirc, so ignore all that I said about .net3.0)

Post by **Grimmie** » December 26th, 2007, 12:18

The only thing that fixed steam (temporarily) for me, was deleting EVERYTHING apart from steamapps and the exe.

And even then it went wrong all the time.
Only a reformat fixed me

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 26th, 2007, 20:26

I just had a similar problem, loading up Steam and having it close again without a message.

I removed the ClientRegistry.blob and AppUpdateStats.blob files and rebooted. When I started it again I got an "updating..." message. Also when I started Steam I immediately select the My Games tab to stop it trying IE anymore.

It worked for me.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 26th, 2007, 20:35

I'll see what I can do about repairing/replacing the wininet.dll and seeing if that helps.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 26th, 2007, 20:48

This is definitely not related to .NET Framework 3, I have both FW3 and FW3SDK (Yep, you guessed it, I'm developing using it) installed, Steam still runs fine. IE sounds like a nice source for a problem.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 26th, 2007, 20:51

Baliame wrote:IE sounds like a nice source for a problem.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 26th, 2007, 20:56

I'll see what I can do about updating IE as well, since I have a piss old version that I haven't looked at in years.

Post by **deject** » December 26th, 2007, 21:42

Gunslinger42 wrote:I'll see what I can do about updating IE as well, since I have a piss old version that I haven't looked at in years.

just conform and install IE7, unless you have dodgy Windows. If that's the case, I don't know wtf you'll have to do. It's just easier to have legitimate XP.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » December 26th, 2007, 21:47

I installed IE7 (not that I'll ever use it) and that seems to have done the job.

On a possibly unrelated note, I now have a pattern of pixels in the bottom left corner of my screen that are lighter than the rest.
. . . . . . .
There's always something

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 27th, 2007, 14:04

Yeah it's definitely a problem with IE6. I can get my Steam to crash if I push the browser element too hard.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 27th, 2007, 15:47

deject wrote:just conform and install IE7, unless you have dodgy Windows. If that's the case, I don't know wtf you'll have to do. It's just easier to have legitimate XP.

Or have a hax for Genuine Cuntification. I lost it though.