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An online gaming, digital distribution, social and DRM platform by developer Valve. This tag should be used for questions about Steam-specific issues with games or any of Steam's features, including but not limited to the digital distribution of games, the desktop PC client, in-game overlay, social features and account management and settings.

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The quality of the screenshots tend to be worse than what I'm seeing in-game. For example, it's a lot fuzzier in some games, especially in darker scenes, than what I'm seeing. For example, my ...
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Is there a native, and ideally consistent, way to limit the FPS for a game launched via Steam, using Steam? For example, I might want to limit a game to 60 FPS, as it really doesn't need any more (and ...
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Some of my games have built-in photo modes. Unfortunately, these games, rather than saving screenshots to Steam, save them to a subfolder of my Pictures folder. Is there any way that I can somehow add ...
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How do I downgrade Terraria to a specific release (i.e., not legacy versions found in the betas menu)? I'm playing Terraria with tMod. I've accidentally updated to the latest version; however, a ...
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I won a Steam key through a giveaway. I didn't have a computer with me, so I used the mobile app on my phone. However, I don’t see an option to redeem a Steam key anywhere. How do I do this?
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A few months ago, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers was heavily censored. I don’t own it, but before this, I was pretty interested in it. Is there any way to revert the game version on Steam to what it was ...
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There's a launch argument you can pass in called --skip-launcher. As described, it skips the launcher and goes straight to the game. Is --skip-launcher guaranteed to work on every game with a launcher?...
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I set up a Windows XP SP3 32-bit system on VMWare Workstation to play retro classics. Unfortunately, Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed crashes on start, despite the game being compatible with Windows ...
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There are a lot of games that have simple achievements, easily "earned" from doing basic tasks, like "Start a new game", "Watch the opening cutscene", "Play the ...
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I've just started playing V Rising (2024), and I'm surprised at the fact that the achievement I got for entering the very first area of the world (a few minutes after starting the game) has only been ...
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Ever since last night, when I try to open the Steam mobile app, I get this message: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://store.steampowered.com/" on this server. ...
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Using Windows 11 and having upgraded to a 5950X, I noticed that Witcher 2 won't start. I see the Witcher 2 logo: yet the game won't launch and I have to kill the process though the task manager. It ...
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The Steam Replay was released recently, and for the most part, it's pretty good. However, it doesn't go into how much time I've wasted spent on gaming, it only gives me percentage breakdowns of how ...
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I noticed that e.g. Half-life 2 seems to store save games in SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Half-Life 2/hl2/save. It's just that I have two Steam libraries in the client, both of which have this ...
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Every single time I click View, I see this "NEW" tag on the Recordings & Screenshots button. I tried closing and reopening Steam and clicking through every screenshot in the menu, but ...
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