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Steam Overlay Problems - K2 - 07-10-2009
So ever since around when the Spy-Sniper update was released, my in-game Steam community overlay thing doesn't run with most of my games. At first I thought it wouldn't run only on Source games/mods, but it also doesn't come up when I play Far Cry 2, World of Goo, and some other stuff. The only games I have that it runs on are Half-life 1 (not Source), Audiosurf, Everyday Shooter, and Lumines. Also now whenever I alt-tab out of TF2 in order to check Steam messages, my screen goes black until I alt-tab back to the game. It never did that before I had this problem.
I checked Steam support and I'm not running any of the apps that are known to interfere with it. The Steam forums are worthless. I tried deleting everything in my Steam folder except steam.exe and the SteamApps folder and let it redownload all the system files, but that didn't fix it. The only other thing I could think of is completely reinstalling Steam, but I'd rather exhaust any other possible option before I have to redownload 30GB of games. Halpz pleez?
Re: Steam Overlay Problems - copulatingduck - 07-10-2009
Well you're in luck because the steam overlay crashes my games. :\
Re: Steam Overlay Problems - KarthXLR - 07-10-2009
Is your firewall blocking it from accessing the internet?
Every time steam updates it does that to me.
Re: Steam Overlay Problems - Totla - 07-10-2009
(07-10-2009, 02:27 AM)Karth is a Public Enemy link Wrote:Is your firewall blocking it from accessing the internet?Yeah, Zone Alarm did that to me. I have to re-add it every update.
Every time steam updates it does that to me.
Re: Steam Overlay Problems - K2 - 07-10-2009
(07-10-2009, 02:31 AM)Tortilla link Wrote:[quote author=Karth is a Public Enemy link=topic=3250.msg96258#msg96258 date=1247210870]Yeah, Zone Alarm did that to me. I have to re-add it every update.
Is your firewall blocking it from accessing the internet?
Every time steam updates it does that to me.
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The overlay still works perfectly fine when I play Audiosurf or Half-life 1. I would think that a firewall would always block it from running, not only when I play certain games.
Re: Steam Overlay Problems - Badgerman of DOOM - 07-10-2009
(07-10-2009, 04:38 PM)K2 link Wrote:[quote author=Tortilla link=topic=3250.msg96260#msg96260 date=1247211119]Yeah, Zone Alarm did that to me. I have to re-add it every update.
[quote author=Karth is a Public Enemy link=topic=3250.msg96258#msg96258 date=1247210870]
Is your firewall blocking it from accessing the internet?
Every time steam updates it does that to me.
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The overlay still works perfectly fine when I play Audiosurf or Half-life 1. I would think that a firewall would always block it from running, not only when I play certain games.
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You think wrong. I recently downloaded a mod, and I had to give permission to hl2.exe all over again, even though I had given hl2.exe permission for TF2 and the ilk.
Re: Steam Overlay Problems - zaneyard - 07-10-2009
lol software firewalls