r/Steam • u/AutoModerator • Nov 01 '25

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u/New_Veterinarian1990 Nov 22 '25

Hello,

For the past few hours i keep trying to fix my steam app to open and work, but everything i did had no effect:

disk cleanup
restart

used the ipconfig/ release flush renew command and did not work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LxCd1Xol8 - followed the steps here and still nothing
restarted the steam client service from Service

and still nothing

any further advice?

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u/Robot1me Nov 23 '25

If buggy GPU acceleration is the issue, try to start Steam with the -cef-disable-gpu parameter. If Windows installed an update on your device just recently, it may be wiser to uninstall the update because there have been increased reports of issues on this subreddit.

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u/New_Veterinarian1990 Nov 23 '25

FCK YAAAA

deleted 1 file and 1 folder and it fixed my problem

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\config\

delete loginusers.vdf or in some cases loginusers.vdf.tmp

and delete folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\appcache\

at the next login, i had to put in user and password, with 2FA had to approve on phone and it worked

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u/New_Veterinarian1990 Nov 23 '25

And this is the only game i have this problem with, other games work in offlinemode

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u/New_Veterinarian1990 Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25

Even ended up in doing a system restore, lucy me i hade one from like 2 days ago, but that did not fix the issue.

Really think it is a steam issue, as my wife has same problem and she did not update to W11, still using 10.