Does everyone noticing that recently Steam Client didn't work starting at around 22 November? Any good workarounds so far?
Hello there, to everyone here, have you guys noticed that the Steam Client itself has been buggy for quite a lot of people? Because I had that problem on the same day I tried to open Steam even though there weren't any problems yesterday? I also went for a quick rundown of the forums and it reveals that an observable number of people also had this problem.

In my case, I have found my Steam to have the same "Steamwebhelper is not responding suddenly" and I clicked the disable GPU acceleration option, and that's the exact moment Steam just...stopped showing anything, but it does run according to Task Manager. Weirdly, the task manager will sometimes show multiple instances of Steamwebhelper being activated for less than 3 seconds before disappearing, and even using the steam://flushconfig function in Run did not display the warning window.

All of the troubleshooting I've done so far:
Reinstalling Steam.
Put Steam as Administrator.
Made sure there aren't any additional displays or anything else weird connected to my laptop.
Stuck myself in 23H2 Win 11 as this Windows version does not have any issues in running Steam before today.

PS: According to this link (https://steamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/discussions/forum/0/682986292645131197/), some people said that making a new Windows account can solve the issue, but I am not going to inconvenience myself to move accounts around just to play games.
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Meme Machine 11 月 21 日 下午 9:41 
I have the same exact issue, everything I've tried has not worked so far, and am also not going to make a whole new windows account
Patches 11 月 21 日 下午 10:47 
I'm having the exact same issue right now. I've tried all possible solutions already, even following that Suspend Task thing and Steam still won't start up.
UPDATE: After I added the –no-cef-sandbox on the shortcut target from the icon's properties, my Steam did another update to the system and finally opened the client!
引用自 Meme Machine
I have the same exact issue, everything I've tried has not worked so far, and am also not going to make a whole new windows account
I managed to fix this by adding –no-cef-sandbox on the "Target" by right-clicking on the Steam Icon, followed by clicking the Properties button.
引用自 Patches
I'm having the exact same issue right now. I've tried all possible solutions already, even following that Suspend Task thing and Steam still won't start up.
I managed to fix this by adding –no-cef-sandbox on the "Target" by right-clicking on the Steam Icon, followed by clicking the Properties button.
zaphodikus 11 月 22 日 上午 12:56 
引用自 WeyonEleven-Twelve
引用自 Patches
I'm having the exact same issue right now. I've tried all possible solutions already, even following that Suspend Task thing and Steam still won't start up.
I managed to fix this by adding –no-cef-sandbox on the "Target" by right-clicking on the Steam Icon, followed by clicking the Properties button.

Why, or how did you decide that this magic rune change would have any effect? How did you come to this magical parameter change?
WeyonEleven-Twelve 11 月 22 日 上午 1:08 
引用自 zaphodikus
引用自 WeyonEleven-Twelve
I managed to fix this by adding –no-cef-sandbox on the "Target" by right-clicking on the Steam Icon, followed by clicking the Properties button.

Why, or how did you decide that this magic rune change would have any effect? How did you come to this magical parameter change?

Found this workaround here: https://www.reddit.com/r/steamsupport/comments/1fihhuf/steam_only_turns_on_with_the_option_with_browser/

It turns out the command is basically disabling the Steam Client's Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), in which the PC will just skip interfacing with the "Sandbox environment" and directly interacting with the website of Steam's Store page.

Also, when you put this command the first time and reenable it (make sure you kill the Steam processes via the Task Manager), make sure the first thing you see is the update window shows you will need to let Steam update itself with a rather large file, then after it installs, the issue will solve by itself(at least in my case).

Then, go to Steam > Settings > Downloads and select Clear Download Cache. Steam should close, and you can remove the command from the icon's properties before opening it again, since CEF is a security feature of not letting online malicious content get into your PC via the Steam Client.
最後修改者:WeyonEleven-Twelve; 11 月 22 日 上午 1:11
zaphodikus 11 月 22 日 上午 1:48 
^^Points awarded, good explainer ^^
Thanks, feels like I should bookmark this, and maybe even automate it.
I usually just kill the processes, and reboot if that does not work. And am now tempted to write a watch-dogger script, because their launch watchdog is clearly miserably failing. And all these tips are helpful, because security needs to remain central. I will have to find a way to automate the cache clearing, because often I just wait about 10 minutes, and then steam does finally start on it's own. I want to first tail all the logs to build a picture of what is going on though, and this it a good clue, cheers WeyonEleven.
Zefar 11 月 22 日 上午 2:04 
引用自 WeyonEleven-Twelve
Hello there, to everyone here, have you guys noticed that the Steam Client itself has been buggy for quite a lot of people? Because I had that problem on the same day I tried to open Steam even though there weren't any problems yesterday? I also went for a quick rundown of the forums and it reveals that an observable number of people also had this problem.

Can't say I have. Steam hasn't bugged up in the past 10 years for me. I'm sure this is the the same for the vast majority because otherwise we'd be seeing a lot of topics on the matter.

Steam has over 37 million active at peak and if just 0.1% of them decided to post about it we'd be swarming in topics.
zaphodikus 11 月 23 日 上午 12:13 
The steam client takes around 50 seconds to start up. On a good day.
Steam have got pretty reliable stats on this, so they know it's probably close to the 0.1% mark. I'm not disputing that, or I hope I'm not, because it's my day job to understand software quality, and that's a job where I know that defects are under-reported often by as much as 90%. Anecdotally if a thing crashes and does not loose your work or your 5 hours of progress in a game, it does not get reported. People have a pretty high pain threshold, and it's around the 15 minutes of work or wasted time mark. So a word document autosave or a web app state save every minute is very safe for example. I have this theory about busses when I visit a city for the first time. If the first ever timetabled bus does not run, it's a fluke, if it happens again the same week while on holiday, you can be pretty sure that it happens at least a few times a week. My experience on Windows will not match experiences on Linux, nor on variations of hardware that people have, which throws a variable in. But I've rebuild my computer 4 times at least since I have been here, and my last 2 builds re-installed the OS at least twice.

And that means that either I am unlucky and am trying to always catch that one scheduled bus in Manchester that always gets cancelled, or, Manc. busses do in fact, often enough get cancelled. It's just my experience, it's not universal, it's anecdotal, but it's my experience.
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