[General] - Steam Must Be Running to Play This Game

[KawaiiChao]

Bug Submission:

Category: General

Issue Title: Steam Must Be Running to Play This Game

Issue Description: This is a huge annoyance that has been going on for a couple of months. Whenever I try to launch DST, I get this popup saying "Steam Must be running to play this game (steamAPI_init() failed)"

Its really annoying, at I have done about everything under the sun to try to fix this. Let me list all I recall trying to do;

Restarting steam, verifying integrity of game cache, reinstalling, browsing MULTIPLE threads about other games with this issue, deleting mods, opting in and out of beta, disabling background applications, and flushconfig. That's about all I remember.

I bought this for my friends and I to get in on the fun early, and its kind of hard to do that when my game doesn't work at all. Any help is appreciated, but don't give snarky comments. (Like "It's a beta m8", which I assume I'd get a lot)

Steps to Reproduce: I recently downloaded the pixelvision steam skin, but after removing that the problem still persisted.

[CharlesB]

Hi KawaiiChao,

 

What platform are you playing on? Windows, OSX, or Linux?

 

If you're on OSX then can you try following this guide to try to resolve the problem:

http://support.kleientertainment.com/customer/portal/articles/1919324-dst-won-t-launch-on-mac

 

[KawaiiChao]

I actually use Windows and Chrome. Do you perhaps have any other ideas?

[DeathOfTime]

disable all mods that are enabled. If any.

 

 

Version of windows?

 

Could you run DxDiag and upload it somewhere?

 

Have you tried any compatibility mode options?

 

Computer Specs?

[KawaiiChao]

Before I post all that crud, I forgot to add one detail.... I think. Anyways, the game USED to work, if I DID forget to add that. Okay.

 

Disabled mods, didn't work.

 

Windows 8.1

 

Tried comp mode, didn't work.

 

Specs

System Manufacturer: Acer

       System Model: Aspire V3-571

               BIOS: V2.02

          Processor: Intel® Core i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz

             Memory: 6144MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 5960MB RAM

          Page File: 2339MB used, 4579MB available

        Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

    DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

     DxDiag Version: 6.03.9600.17415 64bit Unicode

 

Sorry if I didn't paste enough or too much, computers really aren't idiot proof.

[DeathOfTime]

Computers are idiot proof. The more I know the more chance I have of breaking the computer. From what I have found.

 

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Have you recently updated any drivers?

Did you recently make any changes to DST?

 

Have you tried noting down, then unsubscribing from all the mods. uninstalling DST. Backing up then deleting any folders that are left, if any. Then re-installing just DST.

[CharlesB]

I think you're suffering from the same Steam client problem as described in the Mac article I linked.

 

Follow the steps in this Steam support page: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638 It describes how to solve the problem on windows as well as other platforms.

 

Give this a try and let me know if it works.

[KawaiiChao]

I tried it a few times, and no dice.

 

Haven't updated any drivers.

 

No changes.

 

Already tried that, found it on another thread about the same issue but a different game.