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Happens quite frequently. You can click "Home" and browse the store from the News window.
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@LB_ IIRC what a friend described, if you do that, then close the news window, the main window closes.
I have not tried to replicate this, so YMMV.
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@Zecc said in There was an error setting this title:
you're lucky, for the past three months or so my steam install has been completely incapable of displaying a simple web view (which in steam is just about literally everything except your library listing)
turns out it's because i have steam installed under a junction point to move it from my SSD to my HDD. For some strange fucked up how-did-you-even-manage-to-do-that?! reason that breaks web views in steam.
even better: they've released THREE patches now that claim to have fixed the issue. have any of them actually fixed the issue?
on the upside it means i've been unable to even see the latest steam sale, so Valve has stopped raping and pillaging my wallet every time a steam sale comes on. ... I'm actually honestly surprised that this isn't a higher priority to Valve to fix actually.
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@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
turns out it's because i have steam installed under a junction point to move it from my SSD to my HDD. For some strange fucked up how-did-you-even-manage-to-do-that?! reason that breaks web views in steam.
It also breaks the built-in puzzle maker inside Portal 2 - it can't save or load puzzles in that case. Why it even cares is a mystery to me.
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@LB_ said in There was an error setting this title:
Why it even cares is a mystery to me.
my point exactly!
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Ever notice how we hate on Windows 10 for having some small ads in the start menu but a big fucking giant window that says "BUY THIS" every time you launch Steam is perfectly normal?
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@anonymous234 You can turn off that steam ad.
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@coderpatsy said in There was an error setting this title:
@anonymous234 You can turn off that steam ad.
just install steam via a junstion point, it totally breaks those ads.
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@coderpatsy said in There was an error setting this title:
@anonymous234 You can turn off that steam ad.
You can turn off the start menu ads.
Individually.
Each time they add one.
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@Luhmann
"bedoelde u", how cute! The Dutch language will never cease to amaze me.
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@Luhmann said in There was an error setting this title:
@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
junstion point
Google wasn't helpful
junction point.
otherwise known as an NTFS Reparse Point.
basically it's
ln -s /path/to/link /path/to/link/target
but for windows.it lets me have steam installed where it wants to be in the file system (
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
) but all it's files arent on my 200GB SSD, they're on my 3TB WD blue instead (path:C:\Storage\Program Files Ext\Steam
because i also mounted the drive under C to avoid having another drive letter.)
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@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
it lets me have steam installed where it wants to be in the file system (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam) but all it's files arent on my 200GB SSD, they're on my 3TB WD blue instead (path: C:\Storage\Program Files Ext\Steam because i also mounted the drive under C to avoid having another drive letter.)
I've found that it takes only very light persuading to make Steam keep all the installed games on another drive (it says that it is just a default, but it remembers the default so that's OK). The core of Steam is on the 900GB SSD but the games are on the 4TB drive. It seems to work very well.
GOG Galaxy and Origin can be set to do the same thing.
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@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
@Luhmann said in There was an error setting this title:
@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
junstion point
Google wasn't helpful
junction point.
otherwise known as an NTFS Reparse Point.
basically it's
ln -s /path/to/link /path/to/link/target
but for windows.it lets me have steam installed where it wants to be in the file system (
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
) but all it's files arent on my 200GB SSD, they're on my 3TB WD blue instead (path:C:\Storage\Program Files Ext\Steam
because i also mounted the drive under C to avoid having another drive letter.)Why go through all that trouble instead of just having the Steam library or all of Steam on the external drive?
Steam is perfectly happy being installed somewhere other than its default location.
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@ben_lubar said in There was an error setting this title:
all of Steam on the external drive
That's what I do (the drive is labelled
G:
), and I've never had a single issue.I didn't even install it there: it was moved from its original install location on
C:
ontoG:
, and it fixed itself up when I ran it. So, not only is it happy on an external drive, it's happy to be moved without reinstalling
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@RaceProUK said in There was an error setting this title:
@ben_lubar said in There was an error setting this title:
all of Steam on the external drive
That's what I do (the drive is labelled
G:
), and I've never had a single issue.I didn't even install it there: it was moved from its original install location on
C:
ontoG:
, and it fixed itself up when I ran it. So, not only is it happy on an external drive, it's happy to be moved without reinstallingAlso, if Steam ever does get broken, delete everything except steamapps (because downloading all your games again would suck) and steam.exe and then run steam.exe.
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@ben_lubar For all that people complain about Steam being broken, it's surprisingly capable of rebuilding itself.
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@dkf said in There was an error setting this title:
@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
it lets me have steam installed where it wants to be in the file system (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam) but all it's files arent on my 200GB SSD, they're on my 3TB WD blue instead (path: C:\Storage\Program Files Ext\Steam because i also mounted the drive under C to avoid having another drive letter.)
I've found that it takes only very light persuading to make Steam keep all the installed games on another drive (it says that it is just a default, but it remembers the default so that's OK). The core of Steam is on the 900GB SSD but the games are on the 4TB drive. It seems to work very well.
GOG Galaxy and Origin can be set to do the same thing.
today, true..... five years ago when i first set up this arrangement, not so much, and i'm too lazy to change now
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@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
@Luhmann said in There was an error setting this title:
@accalia said in There was an error setting this title:
junstion point
Google wasn't helpful
junction point.
otherwise known as an NTFS Reparse Point.
basically it's
ln -s /path/to/link /path/to/link/target
but for windows.it lets me have steam installed where it wants to be in the file system (
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
) but all it's files arent on my 200GB SSD, they're on my 3TB WD blue instead (path:C:\Storage\Program Files Ext\Steam
because i also mounted the drive under C to avoid having another drive letter.)Am I the only one who has to look up the manpage for
ln
every time to see which one is the link and which one is the target? Then create a link in current folder and realize that I had to use absolute paths.ln
s CLI interface is the father ofgit
s.
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@RaceProUK said in There was an error setting this title:
@ben_lubar For all that people complain about Steam being broken, it's surprisingly capable of rebuilding itself.
Except on Linux, where it would force a rebuild of your home folder.
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@JBert said in There was an error setting this title:
@RaceProUK said in There was an error setting this title:
@ben_lubar For all that people complain about Steam being broken, it's surprisingly capable of rebuilding itself.
Except on Linux, where it would force a rebuild of your home folder.
It can technically do that on Windows, too.
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@dkf said in There was an error setting this title:
Origin can be set to do the same thing.
Apart from the "easy" part of just moving the files over yourself, at least in my experience. Every time I tried to migrate my Origin folder to a different HDD, I would end up having to completely redownload the game so IT could put the game there rather than me.
Fuckers.
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@e4tmyl33t said in There was an error setting this title:
Apart from the "easy" part of just moving the files over yourself
I was doing a new install at that point anyway, and I really don't mind doing a download twice as even at home I've got loads of bandwidth.