Aoe2 Not Working On Windows 10
Jacinto Man
Steam worked fine yesterday morning but wont launch today anymore without any changes made to my system. I wonder whether this is due to the client overhaul that was pushed out yesterday: -overhauls-notifications-ui-elements-and-the-in-game-overlay-000839366.html.
I have the same issues with Steam not loading. I was playing some Half-Life 2 yesterday (6/15) and today when I went to launch steam it originally opened but got all these errors when trying to launch the store. I closed the app, restarted, and now it won't even launch at all. On my dock I see a "Steam" icon and a "Wine64-preloader" icon on the dock. No window or anything lunches. Hope this gets resolved shortly.
Sorry to hear this. Steam does seem to be working so far (after its update) on my MBP running 13.3.1. Just checking that you don't have an external monitor connected to your MBP when launching steam? That has sometimes caused crashes for me in the past.
Steam doesn't work anymore for me either, not even disconnecting external monitor or grafting on my Mac Steam credentials solves the issue. I hope it's resolved fast, this is ridiculous for a piece of software so essential to almost every game.
MacOS ventura 13.4 crossover 22.1.1, I can load steam only if i disable DXVK in the crossover bottle menu, which means I can only play single player games - very annoying. Booting directly into the game from the crossover bottles doesn't work either, that just immediately crashes without any messages. I uninstalled and reinstalled everything but no change. It was working fine on Wednesday night.
Tried reinstalling the bottle, then it worked for one session - e.g. logged in, checked a game if it works (Cultic - not that it has any relevance here), then exited steam. Won't launch since then. I have a few steam bottles, all behave the same after the steam update. With some I see 2 steam icons on the dock, with some I see one. Both cases won't load up the Steam UI. The ones with 2 icons show a popup saying "steamwebhelper" not responding and offers some choices - none of those work. Is there a way to install a previous version of steam ? (guessing not, but hey)
Also: sometimes I get it to load up steam by toggling options like ESync, or repairing the bottle. Then it works just one time, it loads up steam, I can see my games, I can play my games... but every time after I exit steam and try launching it again, it won't load. Seems/feels like some sort of corruption happens somewhere. Or some library's entry point / memory address "moves" again :D
Same here. Basically same issue as everyone above has said. I've put it down to the new steam update as the only change. I've tried reinstalling everything (Crossover, Steam, C++ redist etc etc), changing the bottle from windows 10 to windows 7, changing the steam and web helper only to 7 and the global left on Windows 10.
Tried toggling on/off a bunch of the different toggles in different combinations (CSMT, esync, DXVK, Hires). Furthest I can get is the login page but with only a grey gradient background and an 'x' in the top right. No UI, no fields to login.
Happy to read I'm not going crazy.
I'm experiencing the same issues as described.
Tried re-installing crossover entirely, creating clean bottles with steam, tried running it on win 7 or 10, tried launching with various options, variations in the advanced settings (DXVK etc), using command line steam, some other fixes like the one from the GitHub repo replacing a few files etc.
Right click steam icon, then "run with options".
Not sure what other side effects this might have, but ... seems to work for me.
I'll do more testing and report back if I find anything significant.
Unfortunately it broke for me again after a couple of runs :(
Weird. Sometimes I get a broken "popup" screen with just a question mark visible.
Other times the thing won't start at all (no steam icon in the dock)
We need to keep searching.
HI guys, i got same problem as you .. :( its a perfect evening for my AoE 2 game :D ... but,, also a lot of work to finish .. maybe someone up there wanna me to do my job, instead of playing :D.. hope they figure it out soon.. Thank you ?
We apologize for the troubles with Steam after the latest Steam client update. Our team is hard at working looking into a fix, but in the meantime, this is what worked for me: when Steam starts, there are two icons in the dock: one for Steam, and one for steamwebhelper. If you select steamwebhelper and go to the Mac menu bar and quite steamwebhelper, Steam will relaunch and work.
I start steam from the crossover bottle, I do get two icons but one is labelled steam and the other is wine64preloader.
If I quit the latter it will restart but I will get to the same login screen without UI (i.e. a square with blue gradient and a close button)
Same. -flushconfig worked for one run, but now Steam doesn't show any UI at all. And there is no "steamwebhelper" icon, only wine64-preloader. I also tried opening task manager and manually killing the steamwebhelper processes. I do see them restart in the process list, but nothing ever renders.
update from my similar issue, I got in touch with codeweavers support explaining the problem and they said they're working on it for the July or August release. In the meantime, if you contact them they will supply a download link for the latest nightly build that solves the problem, for me it's Version 2320230617 (23.0.0.36227). for multiplayer for me, aoe DE, you will probably need to install steam and the game using something called a .tie file, aka CrossTie. another download link they'll supply, once the new crossover is installed and open double click the downloaded .tie file to install and follow the usual dialogue box t+c's etc. This should install steam. once steam is installed the game still needs installing, to install this double click the same .tie file again and it should trigger the game download within the steam engine. Then once done, close steam, ensure DXVK is enabled, and then it should work. good luck.
On the 1st run, I got an empty library, but on 2nd and 3rd re-launch it loads alright.
Tested on 2 user accounts on the same machine, e.g 2 installations of Crossover. Works with both.
One of the installations seemed to re-install the steam client (though not sure if this is because I have tried to launch it with -flushconfig followed by -vgui. Anyway -flushconfig is not required I believe, as I did not use on the other Crossover install)
P.S.: so sometimes the library comes up as blank screen, but then I quit steam and start it again with the same -vgui option and so far it loaded up fine I can see my library, I can play the gaemz. I will use this until next Crossover release drops - hopefully it'll have support for the new DXVK libs that can actually render titles like the new System Shock and Warhammer 4k Boltgun :D
-vgui works for me.. no issues. Sometimes library comes up empty, so in these cases I just simply switch to View->Small Mode.
You can also try -vgui -flushconfig : I ran -flushconfig at least once on most of my bottles. Seems like it forces steam to check for updates, e.g. I can see the update-popup whenever I have -flushconfig appended. Mind you, I am not sure what it does.
Hi. I just started using Crossover for the first time just a few hours ago so what I'm about to say my be common knowledge, if so I apologize in advance. I experienced similar problems to others in this thread where Steam worked at first and then started to quit after a few seconds when I tried to run it again later. I tried everything recommended here and nothing worked. Eventually I got it to work but it had nothing to do with software changes.
At one point after installing a game successfully in Steam I turned on my sound bar to get audio. The sound bar is connected via the HDMI port and presents a 1080p display to the system which is configured to mirror the main 4k display using DisplayPort and connected to the computer via a Thunderbolt port (TB3->DP cable). The presence of the second (mirrored) display at different resolution (4k for main, 1080p for mirrored) was enough to stop Steam from working through Crossover.
Once I disconnected the second display / sound bar, everything went back to normal. I even tried connecting a different 4k display directly to HDMI with everything else completely disconnected and this worked as well. It seems Crossover or Steam just don't like having two mirrored displays running at the same time.
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