07-10-2009, 12:13 AM
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?
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?