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Never fully shuts down - always shows me as in the idled game, even though the idler is closed #131

Open FIying-Scotsman opened 9 years ago

FIying-Scotsman commented 9 years ago

Recently, the idler never actually fully closes down. It remains in the task manager and if I attempt to kill the process, it restarts.

If I let it idle on a game and close it, Steam will continue to report I'm in the last idled game and the only way to stop this is to force-close steam via the task manager as attempting to exit it normally would tell me the game I was idling is still running.

This is a nuisance if I want to play another game like TF2 as the idler is still running in the background, putting my account at risk of it being detected by VAC.

MonkAlex commented 9 years ago

Can u kill steam-idle.exe process? Its help u?

FIying-Scotsman commented 9 years ago

Sorry for the late reply; If I try and kill the process, it never disappears from the task manager, or crashes. I would normally try and stop its process (which tends to fix these issues), but I'm running 8.1 and in M$'s mind - no one wants to kill processes anymore (incredibly stupid removing it). It just continues using the same amount of resources and if I try and re-launch it, it'll crash.

It's only started happening the last couple of days and it's hard to figure out what is causing it (some days it doesn't do it, other days it'll crash the application and remain running in the background).

If the author wants to close this bug report down, it's completely fine. Not much help having a bug report when I don't even know what's causing it to happen in the first place.