Dave1875 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Apologies if this falls into the gaming category. Since yesterday my Steam has refused to start. Originally it would have the "unable to connect" and prompt me to enter my username and password. After that it would work perfectly fine. However now it just stops working. Everytime I try to connect a .crash file appears in my Steam folder. I've tried multiple Uninstalls & Reinstalls. Had a look on Steam Support forum and followed some of the suggestions they've given, majority of them appear clueless anyway. Dunno if it has anything to do with recently updating my display drivers. In my steam folder there's a debug text document that just says: [1018/122509:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(227)] Running without renderer sandbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock001 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Can you login OK to the steam website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1875 Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 Can you login OK to the steam website? Can log into steam's site just fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jags4ever Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Roll back your drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock001 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Particularly your graphics drivers. Myabe check if anything else is conflicting too. Do you maybe have raptr installed? I've found that to be a big steaming pile of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1875 Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Particularly your graphics drivers. Myabe check if anything else is conflicting too. Do you maybe have raptr installed? I've found that to be a big steaming pile of crap. Huh, turns out Raptr was being a b*****d and blocking it, soon as I uninstalled it and tried Steam again it worked. Cheers mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock001 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 No worries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1875 Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 ooookay. For some reason it's started doing it again. My usual problem was when I tried starting it it would come up "Unable to connect to the steam network, please retry or start in offline mode" it's hit retry connection and it would prompt me to enter my username & password. This happened everytime I wanted to start Steam and it would work fine from then on. However, after I updated my graphics drivers as they kept crashing randomly or when ever I changed YouTube videos, it suddenly just not doing anything after I did the whole username & password after retrying the connection. I am tempted to either delete everything bar the Steamapps and Steam.exe in the Steam folder like lots of people recommend. Also tempted to roll back my graphic drivers but knowing my luck the whole thing will f**k up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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