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iLIKEturtles559 22 Jul @ 8:46am
Steam instant crash
Alright so here’s whats going on. The internal hard drive was failing my system so I decided to utilize an external ssd in order to salvage everything. This included utilizing that same external ssd as a means of booting my system up and so far everything good until I decided to install steam and noticed that steam will instantly crash upon trying to boot itself up. The only thing that makes sense is that there’s some kind of conflict but I am unable to determine what or how. I have tried reinstalling the program and disabling any antivirus or firewall to see if potentially that could be it but nothing has worked. If anyone potentially has any idea or any suggestions I’m all ears.
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malaria 22 Jul @ 2:00pm 
is steam the only thing giving you issues with this? i had something similar happen to a laptop i had when i dropped it and broke my HDD but I had to reinstall Windows completely after that, Autodesk, Photoshop and Epic Games didn't work either before I wiped the drive and started from zero
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Bad 💀 Motha 22 Jul @ 2:40pm 
Install Steam to C > Steam
Launch via Run As Admin via shortcut

If Steam comes up OK go to its Settings and then Interface and opt into the Beta. After the update go back to Settings > Interface and fixable hardware acceleration and restart Steam when asked
Last edited by Bad 💀 Motha; 22 Jul @ 2:41pm
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iLIKEturtles559 22 Jul @ 9:54pm 
Originally posted by malaria:
is steam the only thing giving you issues with this? i had something similar happen to a laptop i had when i dropped it and broke my HDD but I had to reinstall Windows completely after that, Autodesk, Photoshop and Epic Games didn't work either before I wiped the drive and started from zero

I have noticed some issues when accessing certain websites to see if it could affect anything else. The kind that have those flash player games which of course don’t use flash player anymore and now it’s HTML5 and it won’t load those. Spotify definitely was giving me some trouble as well after installing it and same with chrome. I haven’t wanted to try installing anything else in case I need to scrap this build and start fresh again. Maybe it’s more than just a steam problem now that I think about it.
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iLIKEturtles559 22 Jul @ 9:56pm 
Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
Install Steam to C > Steam
Launch via Run As Admin via shortcut

If Steam comes up OK go to its Settings and then Interface and opt into the Beta. After the update go back to Settings > Interface and fixable hardware acceleration and restart Steam when asked

I installed to C and have tried running it as admin it’s the same as before steam just attempts to load for a brief 5-10 seconds gets there then force closes or goes all black and force closes. I can try another fresh install to C and maybe it will work this time, heres hoping.
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Bad 💀 Motha 22 Jul @ 10:39pm 
Originally posted by iLIKEturtles559:
Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
Install Steam to C > Steam
Launch via Run As Admin via shortcut

If Steam comes up OK go to its Settings and then Interface and opt into the Beta. After the update go back to Settings > Interface and fixable hardware acceleration and restart Steam when asked

I installed to C and have tried running it as admin it’s the same as before steam just attempts to load for a brief 5-10 seconds gets there then force closes or goes all black and force closes. I can try another fresh install to C and maybe it will work this time, heres hoping.

You have 2x GPUs by chance? iGPU + Dedicated active in the system at the same time?

Make sure it goes to a folder and not just C. Win10/11 do not like executables on OS drive outside of a folder.
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smokerob79 22 Jul @ 10:58pm 
if i get this straight your using a external SSD to boot from.....yeah dont do this.....
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Bad 💀 Motha 22 Jul @ 11:21pm 
Yea Steam housed on any USB is never good idea.

Just put the SSD inside the PC, very simple. Or buy an Internal.

If your OS drive was a mechanical HDD; that PC must be over 10 years old.
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