Steam Verifying Installation

[brandonwh64]

All of my machines that I have steam installed on does this but never bothers me.

 

[Super XP]

I've had this happen to me too. But I've noticed this happening only when I have a VPN enabled. As soon as I disabled it, never happens.

 

[Damocles]

As I said, if you are getting constant updating, you have a problem. Look at the steam updates below. It most certainly is NOT constant.

For example, if I keep seeing March 22 update every time Steam wants to restart to apply an update, then there is a reason to run chkdsk.

No, in my case this does not happen. I updated my Steam client a couple of times and it all went well, never got stuck or anything like that.

 

[rtwjunkie]

No, in my case this does not happen. I updated my Steam client a couple of times and it all went well, never got stuck or anything like that.

No, not stuck. If the date of the update it wants to restart for is always the same, that is what I'm talking about. It will update fine, but the next time you start computer and start Steam, it will show the same update date on the request to restart to apply update. That's the only reason I can see that Steam wants to restart to apply updates every time, which is what I was under the impression you were asking about. As you can see from the second screenshot, Steam only updates about every 3 weeks.

 

[jboydgolfer]

the date of the current version of Steam is March 22. Mine is also Quite current, i have also gone beyond, since there seems to be some contention as to whether this is an actual issue or not, and submitted a ticket to steam support. My guess is one of two things.

1- this is an intended function of steam, and is simply a part of the startup procedure.and the message is a "multi purpose" message for verifying/updating steam.
2- it is an issue with some component of steam inner workings, but has No real impact on how steam functions, and will be ironed out in a future release of the client.

regardless of which of the two possibilities, or if its even a different issue i havent considered, It will be answered soon ,and we can put this to bed.

and to clarify again,(with this issue this thread is about) the only thing being questioned is why our clients are displaying a short window message about steam verifying/updating. there is nothing else happening in this matter, other than steam launching as it is intended to, no restarts, no anything.

I will post back when I get a response from steam, and I know for a fact im not the only user who has submitted a ticket on this issue, hopefully it will be answered sooner than later.

As I said, if you are getting constant updating

there is NO contant updating, i think your misunderstanding what is happening here. steam updates take more than 2 seconds. this is simply a window popping up with a generic update/verification of the steam client message. nothing more. no update is occurring, it is simply verifying that steam is up TO date,i have submitted a ticket regarding this, and we should have an answer soon hopefully, but this isnt about updating, its just about the message itself. nothing more.

edit
now im not getting it. but it normally always happens upon restart of the entire PC.re edit*
Yup got after pc restart

 

[rtwjunkie]

Ok, I understand now. I was under the apparently mistaken impression that Steam was always popping up the restart window to apply Steam updates.

If THAT were happening and it kept showing the same update date (in this case, the current one, March 22), then it would indicate an MBR problem on the Steam drive.

As such, since I now understand the OP issue, no problem then, it is simply Steam telling you it is checking in with home.

 

[jboydgolfer]

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Ok, I understand now. I was under the apparently mistaken impression that Steam was always popping up the restart window to apply Steam updates.

If THAT were happening and it kept showing the same update date (in this case, the current one, March 22), then it would indicate an MBR problem on the Steam drive.

As such, since I now understand the OP issue, no problem then, it is simply Steam telling you it is checking in with home.

I think I missed three or so of your posts on page 1, but this morning I went back and read through it, and I'm thinking to myself "what are you talking about ?"

But then I came to the second page and it occurred to me that it was likely that you were either mistaken or confused about issue.

Easy enough to happen I mean there is posts in here about what you were referring to, but what DOP and myself and several others are experiencing is a rectangular window that pops up for about a second or two just as you launch steam, then it goes away ,& steam behalves normally. I'm pretty sure that it's a legitimate window that's just verifying everything is current but I have read posts on the other forums including steam that may indicate an issue. But it's likely a simple coding issue not security related,& Certainly not user related.

With any luck steam will respond to my ticket sooner than later and we can get an answer to this once and for all. Because it is something that just started happening recently and there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer on line in either direction as to what it is

 

[jboydgolfer]

*update* to all those who may be interested in this issue..

i submitted this ticket to Steam support, regarding this issue,

the response i got was this....

so, it seems the message that the @OP was curious about IS indeed a normal function of Steam (i also attached a screenshot of the actual message to avoid any possibility of confusion on the behalf of support)...the only possible concern would be if the message doesnt go away after a few seconds, but otherwise, all is well, and user should see this message fro mtime to time, or eachtime you start steam.

 

[BiggieShady]

It's completely normal for our client software to apply same update upon startup over and over again ... this is to ensure you have the latest version installed over the same version.

 

[jboydgolfer]

It's completely normal for our client software to apply same update upon startup over and over again ... this is to ensure you have the latest version installed over the same version.

It's not applying any update. It just checks that it is up TO date, nothing more. No update is occurring, that was some confusion earlier on in the thread

 

[Damocles]

Well, that's great. I was worried that this was a software issue but it looks like it's a new feature. I don't really read the changelog everytime steam updates

 

[jboydgolfer]

Well, that's great. I was worried that this was a software issue but it looks like it's a new feature. I don't really read the changelog everytime steam updates

nor do i.

 

[efexza]

if you mean this...Yes its normal, it happens all the time. Steam is an online DRM, and it is likely checking that its client is up to date(literally every time steam opens, it needs to check if its up to date), and user is singed in, content is synced, etc..ignore it.

i found a fix:

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/135514507321526274/

 

[DRDNA]

It's not really a fix as nothing is broken, this just hides the notification is all.

 

[jaggerwild]

I get this Every time i log in to play a game, I just click the cancel and my game starts