Whenever I try and open Stardew Valley, this black task command box pops up for a few seconds and then disappears and nothing else happens. Top of the box says "SMAPI 3.13.4" but there's no text in the box. So far I've only had this happen with Stardew. I tried googling it but nothing really came up for what the actual problem is so I was hoping someone here would know. TIA

Hi, I’m trying to make Steam auto-launch with Windows, but I want it to do so silently.

Right now, every time I boot my PC, Steam starts and shows a small “Signing in…” window for a moment before minimizing to the tray.

I want Steam to auto-start normally, stay minimized, and not show any login popup or window during boot.

I’ve already tried putting -silent in the steam startup shortcut but the login popup still appears briefly.

Is there a way to force Steam to start directly minimized to the tray without showing anything?

Hey so I have this issue im on a Mac Air 13 in 2025 M4 model.
whenever I try to load Bloons Monkey City through steam, it just fixes the in game cursor to a small box that is not the actual size of my game window. I've tried literally everything that was supposedly a fix like, lowering my screen resolution (i have gone through every single possible one on my mac display settings), and even to things like using the launch properties through steam. Nothing works. I cannot make my physical game window smaller, and the in game cursor box does not change and I don't know how to make it the same size as my window.
please help!!!

https://reddit.com/link/1v3pqin/video/h9xh08rkxteh1/player

holy shit so I bought a steam giftcard at my local Walgreens and while scratching I scratched a little too hard and destroyed 2 letters. It made the code unusable, so when I used steam support, not even 2 hour after that the support team found my code and gave it to me free of charge!

Okay, so my account was compromised because I was a bonehead and I did everything I was supposed to do; contacted steam, the reset password, the e-mail, whatever.

It's been about twelve hours since I contacted Steam and I'm feeling anxious over having not heard anything yet. Someone tell me this is normal. I need to know that it sometimes takes a bit of time for Steam to contact you and I'm freaking out over nothing.

No Game will Launch 😢

I have read thru just about every suggestion I can find and I still cannot launch any game off of steam.

I click play, it goes blue, verifies with cloud, then back to green play button not having launched it

I have tried offline as well

Here is a list of what I have done, help is appreciated.

1. Cleared download cache

2. Verified files of all games

3. Made sure I have 25% space left on C://

4. Updated Nvidia drivers

5. Updated windows

6. Updated steam

7. Run as admin

8. Turn off firewall for all steam/games

I am currently trying to play bg3, hogwarts legacy, or warhammer 40k damn of war.

I have had no issues with bg3 or hogwarts until last week, 40k is brand new so I have never successfully run it

One time I accidentally clicked to show 100 (I think) items per page and now I can´t change it back to 10 because the prompt disappeared. Now I have to scroll through many listings to get to the market.

I've been trying to play for a week but whenever I opened another game it went back to 0%, I fixed that issue and it was like 60% downloaded and the WiFi went out and it cancelled the download and its back to 0%. Very irritating

Hello,

Does anyone know why steam can't download games using my own phone hotspot? My mobile hotspot can download other things and even use YouTube on this pc but it can't download from steam. I've used other wifi connection and it worked so i think the problem is with my phone hotspot

Thank you in advance.

I got my dad's old steam account recovered because I inherited all his cd keys and games I got into his james bond account but now im trying to recover the other one safe to say he loved battlefield 1210 hours lol hopefully i can recover it,its like a piece of him and his hobby that can continue on thanks steam lord gabe

When I try to type in text boxes with the virtual keyboard in my Quick Access or other overlays, if I select any of the keys R, T, O (and sometimes Q) it acts as a different directional input like it thinks I'm using the arrow keys or a d-pad. This also affects the virtual keyboard, making it impossible to spell most words correctly. This doesn't happen in the main Big Picture window, only in-game overlays.

Using Fedora 44 KDE Plasma Edition with Steam Flatpak.

(i say sometimes q because before i started recording it was acting as left but in the video it works as expected of a letter key)

Okay so before going to my problem, some context. My steam account got Locked from posting for something I didn't do at least to my knowledge, so fearing for the worst, I went to change my steam password, but instead of letting me do that, Its asking me to prove myself, which I fill out after that it sends a code to my new email id and when I enter the following code, it gives me this error. I hope someone knows a solution for this because I've spent way too much time and money on this account.

My steam account is sending friends on steam scam messages/links but no activity of login and notification on steam guard or anything. I'm guessing it's because of my apikey is leaked.

All,

I wanted to pass along an experience I've had with steam over the past month. Around early June, I was having consistent steam lack of connectivity issues during patching and download. This was the case for all steam systems on my home network, including computers and steam decks.

The issue was generally solved by clearing the download cache and/or switching the download region, which had to be done once every restart of the machine.

After being tired of this experience, I chased several of the logs including the connection and content_log with additional debug arguments passed to steam.

The IPv6 connection continually timed out (noting all other internet on these machines appeared normal). Upon disabling IPv6 on the local machine, steam began downloading games, updates, and patches as normal.

Just an anecdote from my side.

Cheers.

Basically, I gotta ask when does valve do maintenance periods for steam because when I was playing Call of Duty® Black ops six up until 3 PM Pacific time things were running fine but then things stopped working and it showed that I had no connection to steam basically I wanna know so that way I can figure out what I wanna do during that period of time

[SOLVED]
Turns out he changed his password 🤦‍♂️

Yesterday my friend tried to download mw2019 and he couldn’t he tried everything and the download still failed, then he tried signing out and now he’s stuck, both the username and the password is right

It used to show “sign in offline mode” then it shows the error e20

And today he can’t sign in at all it shows him that either his username or password is not right

If you have any solutions please comment them

So I recently bought the persona bundle during the sale. All the other persona games except P4G and P3P will boot up. I’ve never had this weird issue with any other game and I’ve tried a ton of things (including reinstalling) but nothing seems to work. Has anyone seen this issue? If so how should I go about fixing this? I’m also now getting the code 0x0000005 which is access violation if this helps.

Hi all,

As the title says, i've just tried to download the new BF6 update and after a while it just crashes / floods my router and internet, making it unable to use other devices.

It starts off strong with 700-900 MB/s and then after a few minutes- i'd say around 40% of this download it drops to 80MB/s or lower and it just completely shuts off all my other devices. I never had this happen before.

I did not change any settings (i'm not that much of a techwizz) but i know that all my drivers are updated through the gigabyte website / gigabyte control app.

The only way to get my internet to work again is to restart the router...

Also i'm on a realtek gaming 2.5Gbe family controller adapter / Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 Wi-Fi 7 adapter- however im on ethernet with 1000 MBps down / 50 MBps up, if that matters.

Does any one know a fix for this??

Thanks in advance!

So basically, I just recently got Rockstar's Launcher to work, so i tried booting up GTA 4 (as i had bought it a few months ago) but i was met with this, can someone help me fix it? i already scoured the steam community but found nothing.

Config settings for both deadlock and the binding of isaac are not working and i have zero clue why. They both worked before but recently re installed windows and steam cause i my harddrive died. They have also both worked exacly once immediatly after enabling them but after relaunching it not worked since.

In deadlock i changed the fov using through the GI file

In isaac i simply want to enable mouse control through options file

It started out peaking at 800 Mbps, but then it quickly drops to a max 200, while constantly dropping down to 0. I have tried some tutorials around on what can be done, like disabling write cache on disk, and I even cleared my HDD that was being written into at one point but it still slows down like this

Now, the only thing my very limited knowledge can assume is that the reason is my SSD (OxyBR) is just a bad brand and there's not much I can do other than getting a better one, but if that's the case I'd like to be sure, because if there is something I can do to get my max download speed I'd really like to get it

hi everyone, i recently bought look outside and was very excited to play it, but whenever i try to boot it up on my laptop it will say it’s running on steam but the game itself won’t pop up. is this a common tech issue with the game / is there anything i can do about? given its aesthetic and gameplay features i think i would love this game and want to play it if i can. thanks for your help

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When you order the games by completion in the library it shows some games as 0% even though I have more, Im not talking about games with limited features profile that shows no achievemnts, any way to fix? It really bothers me as a perfectionist

I checked my email and i saw someone had bought steam items from my wallet, i scanned my pc with Malwarebytes and it scanned a virus called trojan something, idk how to contact support for this.