My First Steam Screw Up.

[kineaesth]

Okay, I recently disabled the Steam Community/Friends thing loading up at start up, as it's a bit of a hog for my not-too-flash computer. Now, upon re-openage of Steam, I get a nice little error box telling me that (after updating) there's a module error, FriendsUI.dll could not be loaded.

I'm hoping that a re-install will fix this, but does anyone else have any ideas? Seems like a major flaw that ticking a box Steam -gives- you to tick will cause a major screw up.

So, I now understand why people have issues with Steam.

Thanks.

 

[Asus]

When you open Steam, does it give you the error right away and does it make Steam close/crash? Can you go back and sign up for the Community beta again?

Earlier I was able to unsubscribe to the Steam Community Beta and re-subscribe with no issue. Not sure why you your friendsUI.dll errored out.

 

[kineaesth]

Uh, while it's connecting to my account it errors, and closes down. Which means that when I open it up again I need to re-update, which sucks because I'm nearly reaching my cap for download.

 

[Asus]

So what happens after it crashes and after it starts to re-update?
That does suck about your download cap.

 

[kineaesth]

It errors out again. Basically it's a giant circle of broken. Well, my month ends tomorrow, so I guess I'll get a new copy of Steam then...

 

[Asus]

More or delete friends.dll? Restart PC?

Might have to reinstall steam. Not sure what caused you to get that error though.

 

[kineaesth]

Actually, what about deleting the .blob files? I've heard that can fix quite a few problems with Steam... But I'm not sure deleting something that looks important is going to be that good. D:

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

You can delete everything but the Steam.exe in your Steam folder and Steam will redownload everything for you, just FYI.

 

[hool10]

No I just had this problem too. Instead of freaking out I deleted that blob file and they fixed it anyways.