I am on 64-bit Windows 7 Professional.
I am unable to use the Steam client at all. The problem began when I loaded Steam today and went to my Library tab--it caused the client to crash. I do not have any custom games installed; only Skyrim which was purchased and downloaded through Steam. I had not done anything to cause this, it just crashed.
Following the crash, I reopened the client and continued to download the game I was downloading at the time (PlanetSide 2), only to find that it now would not download no matter what I did. I tried changing my download region and deleting ClientRegistry.blob, but its status stayed at Updating...
. I decided to just uninstall Steam and retry from scratch.
After Steam uninstalled, I restarted my computer, then reinstalled it. Now when I try to open Steam it continuously opens, downloads an 8,691 KB update, says Extracting package...
for several seconds, then completely closes.
- VPN is turned off
- All Steam ports are open through my router
- Tried removing ClientRegistry.blob
- Completely uninstalled antivirus and MalwareBytes
- Tried uninstalling/reinstalling Steam using these instructions, didn't fix it
I have been trying to get this to work for a full hour and a half now, and I cannot get anything to work no matter what I try. Any advice at all would be incredibly appreciated.