Steam is a Windows, Linux and Mac OS X social platform for the digital distribution of games.
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How do I start Steam without it automatically logging in?
When I start Steam it automatically logs into my account.
I want it setup so that when Steam starts next time, it will ask me for my credentials.
I know how to do this the normal way (logging into ...
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Can I report people on Steam for sending inappropriate messages?
How can i report people that are aggressive to me on steam? Someone has been sending me messages that contain offensive language.
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Do mods or console use disable achievements for Fallout:New Vegas?
I've heard mixed information on this and I'd like to get a straight answer, for two reasons:
The widely reported Quicksave/Autosave bug is annoying and, quite frankly, has terrified me into ...
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Steam thinks it's running in compatibility mode
I tried to start up Steam, but it says it is currently set to run in compatibility mode. I checked under Properties but compatibility mode is not enabled. I looked at settings for all users, but ...
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What's the total size of all games I have on Steam?
I have a lot of games on Steam, far more than my puny hard drive can hold at once. However, in the future I may want to store all of them locally.
Is there any way to figure out about how much hard ...
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How can I determine whether a Steam game can be activated on Origin as well?
As described by title, I own a certain number of games on Steam. How can I determine whether a Steam game can be activated on Origin as well?
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Where can I find Portal 2 mods?
I obviously don't own Portal 2 yet but am considering buying since it's on sale on Steam at the moment. My question is - I've heard that the SDK has been released some weeks ago so one would expect ...
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Steam (Mac) game location
A few months ago, I restored my Mac from a Time Machine backup. Now, when I try to play a game on Steam (Civ 5 for example), Steam does not seem to be aware of the location of the game. I found the ...
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Is it possible to play two different Steam games on the same account at the same time?
I own a lot of games on Steam, and I'm overall a big fan of the service.
However, one thing about it really bothers me, and I'm wondering if anything can be done about it.
Let's say I have two ...
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Can I play Fallout: New Vegas without Steam?
I just bought Fallout: New Vegas today on Amazon for the computer and I am dying to play it, but for some reason it made me install it on Steam and it is now updating the game which it says will take ...
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How do I upload old screenshots taken with traditional methods to Steam?
Steam now has a screenshot-hosting feature, but I've been unable to break the habit of hitting F5 to take traditional TGA screenshots in Team Fortress 2, rather than the new hotkey F12 (the default) ...
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File Validation stuck at 100%
I recently restored my computer back to factory settings (clean os) after screwing it up, but I kept source 2007 shared materials.gcf, source 2007 shared models.gcf, source 2007 shared sounds.gcf, ...
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How do I make Steam stop broadcasting my activity to everyone? [duplicate]
First off, I don't even know why this option is on by default. It makes no sense.
Anyway, I'd like my friends not to be notified when I log in, log out, and, most importantly, start playing some ...
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Why are Steam's “hours played” numbers wrong for so many games?
For many games on my game list, the number of hours I am "on record" for playing are much less than I've actually played.
According to Steam, I have not logged any hours playing the games that I ...
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How to sort the special offers list by relative discount?
With the current special, there are over 500 games discounted. But I'm not interested in sorting by price, but by relative savings. How can I browse the titles sorted that way?
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Differences between Arma 2 Free and Arma 2 Demo
Trying to find more information about the DayZ mod, I learnt that the base game (Arma 2) appears to have 2 different 'free' versions, one enticingly labeled as 'Arma 2 Free' and also a seperate 'Demo' ...
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How do I see screenshots taken through Steam of a non-Steam game?
Steam has an option to take a screenshot of your current game at any time (F12). For Steamworks games, all screenshots are displayed as thumbnails on the library page when I select the game in my ...
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Should I install steam/origin on SSD and map some games to HDD or other way around?
Well the topic explains it all. I just reinstalled my PC. Now that I have a larger SSD I want to have some games on my SSD and some other the games on my HDD.
Now I wonder, should I install steam and ...
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How do I play Portal 2 workshop maps?
I've subscribed to several workshop maps in Portal 2, but when I launch the game, I can't find the maps. I've tried searching on YouTube for answers to this question and all the videos have a menu ...
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How do I gift the rewards of the Bioshock Infinite pre-order?
I pre-purchased Bioshock Infinite. Along with this, I received Bioshock and X-Com. Both I have already. On the store-page it says for both games:
Already own it on Steam? Gift it to a friend
How ...
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Is there a way to see gifts you've sent on Steam?
I remember there being a button to view a list of all the guest passes and gifts you've sent to people on Steam, but it seems to have disappeared after the Steam inventory update?
Is it still there, ...
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Can I give away Steam games?
I own some Steam games I'd like to give away to friends as I no longer play them. Have I any options?
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ROTMG account linking
I have been playing on Realm of the Mad God for months in browser. I now want to switch to steam use for personal reasons. I go to steam, click account, click 'Replace this account with web account', ...
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Steam Trading Error - “This trading session has expired.”
How can I fix this issue? Sometimes I find that when I try to trade with anyone, before the screen loads, this error message pops up.
I'm not using Steam Beta.
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How do I get Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 to work with multiplayer on Steam?
I bought Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and online play is not working. Looked around the forums and could not find a work around for Steam users.
I bought other ubisoft titles to find out that they are not ...
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Why does Steam keep validating files?
For a few months now, Steam has been validating my files whenever I open it. For years, Steam did not do this. What exactly is Steam doing when it says that it is validating files, and why does it ...
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Is it possible to send a gift anonymously or at least without them knowing beforehand?
I want to send someone a gift as I may or may not be involved in a secret santa on steam.
Ideally I don't want them to know I sent it at all (the secret part) but I guess steam will tell them who ...
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How do I get Skyrim to redownload Dawnguard and the other DLC if I accidentally deleted it from the data files menu?
I've tried restarting many times and going on "View Downloadable Content" but I don't see an option to tell Skyrim to download it again.
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Every time my computer starts it fails to connect to Steam… How can I fix this?
Every time I turn my computer on and it gets into Windows, Steam immediately pops up and says it has failed to connect and that I can either retry or start in offline mode.
After this, my network ...
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How can I get mods from the Steam workshop?
So I got Civilization V the other day and I am wondering how steam workshop works? How do I get mods for Civ V and what happens if it doesnt work?
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What hats in TF2 are, or were, available for free?
What hats and miscellaneous wearables (like sunglasses and badges) in TF2 are available for free, without crafting, buying, un-crating, random drops, trading, or buying a game on Steam?
Aside from ...
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MW3 downloading 2 times on steam
MW3 is downloading 2 times on steam. First single player which is ~7GB its downloading 14GB, so i'm hoping it will download multiplayer too, but its not, and i have to download multiplayer which is ...
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How can I create a custom automatic status on Steam?
I added a media player to Steam as a non-Steam game and changed its name to "watching movie". When I launch it from the games library it changes my status. But I want to make this change automatically ...
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How can I stop the Steam Community Menu from appearing with a XBox 360 controller?
I am playing Skyrim on PC with a XBox 360 wired controller. Every time I click left stick to sneak it works, but also brings up the Steam Community page/menu. Is there a way to prevent this from ...
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Can't play Civilization 5 with friends
This is extremely frustrating, and has been an issue for the past month. I cannot play Civilization V over the internet with any of my friends. Whenever I try to play a game with my girlfriend, it ...
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What controllers are supported through Big Picture Mode?
For Big Picture Mode, they always advertise on the game's Steam page that it supports full-controller or partial-controller. Next to that they show a picture of the Logitech F710. I know that they do ...
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Bulk activate product keys in Steam
After purchasing the current Humble Bundle, I wondered if it was possible to activate all of the 6 games in Steam at once, without having to do a "Product Activation" for every game.
I could probably ...
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Free to play games go missing in the Steam library
I added the Free-To-Play Team Fortress 2 to my favorite games in the Steam library, and played the game.
After reinstalling steam, the game went missing from the library completely - it does show up ...
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Why are there duplicate game entries in my Steam library?
I purchased Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, a package that includes four items. Three of the included items are displayed twice in my games library, with the message [game] is not ...
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How do I find the account a steam game belongs to?
I own a hard copy of Left 4 Dead but unfortunately it is registered to my old Steam account, which I made several years ago and have since forgotten the password and even the username. Is there a way ...
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Can I create one steam account per game?
After reading this, it seems as though purchasing more than one game on a single steam account limits the flexibility of how you can use a game.
I understand why Steam did this and am not trying to ...
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How do I add Minecraft to Steam?
I want to add Minecraft to Steam, but am not sure which files to add. How do I add Minecraft to Steam?
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GTA IV will not start
Last Year, I bought Grand Theft Auto IV on Steam (PC). After I installed it I played it for less that an hour, then I had to go out. The next day the game would not launch. The Launcher would appear, ...
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How can I run Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead with BMF, PFC and ACR DLCs without Steam?
As the title says, I'm looking for a way to run Arma 2: OA with BAF, PMC and ACR DLCs without running steam.
Is there a way to do it?
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Can I stop the Steam client from crashing each time I shut down my Mac?
I have the Steam client installed on my Macbook Pro, and each and every time I shut my Mac down without first quitting the Steam client, the client crashes.
While the end result is the same (the ...
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Why am I getting «delete of Steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 5 “Access is denied”»?
My PC is running Windows 7. I tried installing Steam. I downloaded the program. When I attempt to run it, it loads about half way and gives me an error message:
Steam.exe (main exception): ERROR ...
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How do I get the new Total War promo items for TF2?
This weekend (27th Sept to 1st October 2012), there's a promotional deal offering Team Fortress 2 items to owners of Total War series games on Steam.
Can I claim the items if I already own the games, ...
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How to delete old DotA 2 item builds created before the guide system?
With the patch from 20 February the new guide system is online which provides skill builds and item builds. I have been using the online tool to create those builds, but my old itembuilds saved in ...
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Are classic games released on Steam somehow optimized for modern computers?
I'm wondering if classic games (released earlier than say 2000) on Steam are somehow optimized to run on modern OS's and/or hardware?
I own one such game, but it always takes some time to set it up ...
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Assassin's Creed 2 Stuck at Hidden Blade Cutscene
Assassin's Creed 2 gets stuck at the cut-scene where:
I can open the map, options dialog, and change weapons but the cut-scene will not proceed.
I have tried replaying this memory several times, ...
