Steam.exe not found?

[Colby]

I got on my pc, tried to open steam, the steam logo was not present on the shortcut on desktop.

 

The error looks like this.

 

Was right after download completion of planetside 2

[Colby]

After a few hours of troubleshooting everything is finally done

[Mark T]

Could you elaborate for future reference?

 

[Colby]

Yea ill try to next time

[JANXOL]

Looks like shortcut was pointing at the wrong thing, but how exactly did installing planetside change steam shortcut? I'm curious.

[Mark T]

I mean can you explain how you fixed it so others can when they have the same issue.

[Colby]

Yes it was right after planetside 2 install, I dont know how it changed it

[Colby]

Here is what i did, take the steamapps folder out of the steam file, uninstall all other files from steam, reinstall steam, put steamapps folder back in steam and then it worked.

[Colby]

Also once I close planetside 2 steam says its still running and the only way to shut it down is restart pc, I checked task manager, happen to anyone else?

[JANXOL]

In my case if it says its still running either steam needs a moment to do it's steam things, like synicng savegames and such. If it gets stuck for good (in my case happens when I crash xcom 2 because of long war) what I do is kill steam and xcom process in task manager (process, not application). Never had it happen to the point i had to restart the whole pc.

[Mark T]

I get that with Scum but I just leave it

[Colby]

3 hours ago, Michal said:

@ColbyThis is a common issue with Planetside, happened to me a few times. Exiting Steam and opening Planetside 2 through the desktop shortcut fixes it for me. You shouldn't have to restart the pc. Similar to what Janxol said. 

When I close steam it sits on closing planetside 2 for a while (10 min), maybe its me just not being patient?

[JANXOL]

I'd say it's about issues while closing the game, not your patience. Closing a program for 10 minutes is bad, even if you have a really potato pc.

Try checking if it's planetside actually not closing, or steam thinking that it didn't close. When steam says its closing and it sits there for that 10 minutes, open task manager, go to processes and check if any process related to planetside is still running and whether it takes up any memory and cpu. Note that even if it says that application isn't running, there might still be some processes running.

Edit:

Those processes are also planetside related, so it might look like this:

Edited September 4, 2018 by JANXOL