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Since I got my wife's new machine back from the repair shop and mine back from building, I've been installing megadoses of steam games to the machines. What I've noticed quite a bit is that Steam seems to freeze up on the Win7 machines quite a lot, and go to the grey screen ""Steam is not responding" - what would you like to do?

Anyone else encountered this, and is there anything that can be done for it?

I've never had an issue with Steam on my Win 7.  Are you sure it's not your connection to the Steam servers (and/or their being pounded due to a holiday sale)?

Same, been running Win 7 64bit for a while now, never an issue with Steam.

As above.

Ditto.  No problems.

Echo. Although Steam overlay really hates Gigabytes OC Guru stuff. To the point games crash.

I was hoping this is the case, and it's very possible. I've only had the new Win7 machines for a couple of days - starting with the "everyone in the world log on NOW" day of Dec 20. Never had an issue with the laptop until then, either.

It took me a few minutes to connect to Steam tonight, I'm with Lant in guessing it is just the servers being slammed.

Yeah, connections have been real slow. Also had major delays in "Steam is updating" getting stuck on 17%. That seems to be clearing up as well. Shame I ended up deleting my whole Steam install on the laptop due to the update freeze and thinking it was something more serious...  :oops:

new HDD on new computer with almost 2 days of steam reinstalls on it died. So I backed it all up. Copied my wife's steam install across to the other HDD. Tried to run Steam. Fucker tells me "durrr steam is on the E drive - you can fuck yourself if you want to run it from the D drive".

Another hour of Reg-editing, failed install repairs, a deletion and a reinstall, and I'm back to the awesome of "Steam Updating.. 23% complete."

At least I saved the Steamapps folder this time, but I honestly don't recall anything like this level of fucking about when installing or moving Steam installs on XP.

Oh, and the updating keeps crashing. WTF? It'd be nice if they updated their fucking installer occasionally.

There are tools and info for switching that drive notification. I guess it's too late now, though.

I would think at this point that you have some other issue. Steam is crashing, your new hard drive is dying, etc. Were you wearing the skins of 12 cats and holding a glass rod while doing the computer build? Is there a Van de Graaff generator running in your closet?

I mean, no one else here seems to have had the steam install issues you're having on Win7.

I just reinstalled steam a couple weeks back around the beginning of the month on Win 7 64 bit, and had no issues.  Been re-downloading various games, and installing the new ones I've bought the last 2 weeks, also with no issues.

I found a page on the official steam forums that explained the process. Do you have a link in case this happens again next time this happens to me?  :oh_i_see:




The reinstall is working now. I'm hoping that the crashes while updating were just due to Steam servers being pounded + shitty Australian internet being poiunded now that the kids and everyone else are out of school and work. Despite the aneurysm, I'm also glad that that drive died within 2 days of getting the PC, and not a month in or something. Won't be able to get it swapped out for almost 2 weeks, though, due to holidays.

I used to have huge problems with Steam on my Win7 machine that would cause my system to crash. Turned out I had some faulty RAM and a bad PSU.

sooooo... after a few days of working smoothly, I can load up steam, but it won't actually run any games today. Just freezes up and I have to kill it.  :uhrr:

Intermittent problems like that make me think its a hardware issue, probably having something to do with heat (or a conflict with something you changed recently on the system).

Its not them its you for sure.

35% of Steam users are on Win7. It's a pretty well warn path by now.

Windows 7 64 bit with steam on three different computers. Not a single issue.

Sometimes after a reboot on my win7 box Steam hangs on start, doesn't redraw, etc.  Killing it and restarting it once or twice seems to get everything working and then it's fine until the next time I restart the box.

Might still be the servers getting pounded or something. I gave up on TF2 after a few tries but eventually got BF2 working with no issues, so put a couple hours into that today over a couple of sessions.

Just checked TF2. Got it working first try. Looks like I missed out on all of the bonus crap, as it's officially time for me to watch a movie with the wife. Oh well.