Steam client broken after updating to Windows Tech Preview Build 9879

Anonymous
2014-12-02T02:12:50+00:00

It would appear that the latest build of the windows technical preview has caused some serious stability issues for Steam users.

As we all know, this is a big reason why many people use Windows for their desktop PC. To stably play games =)

I ask that the Microsoft  OS engineers please try to track down whatever changes they've introduced with this latest build so that we can once again  have the ability to use Steam.

Symptoms: While playing games via steam ( including the two most widely played steam games, Dota2 and CS:GO ) the steam client will randomly crash. The process will completely die and there will be no trace left in the steam client application logs. As a result of steam dying your game will almost instantly end as well. This issue is present in both Steam and steam beta clients.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/624075036312911882/

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/624076027749834093/

I hope there is a solution here. Granted this is a free technical preview, but for me it just became a lot less useful.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-12-11T21:27:46+00:00

    Thank you for the info, I do have this update though it doesn't seem to have helped much for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T03:07:01+00:00

    renaming steamservice.exe will sometimes work, but side effect is sometimes you can't connect to multiplayer games via server browser.

    I'm testing this other workaround, it involves giving steamservice.exe more privileges under standard user accounts.  Will update after my son tests some games with it.

    http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/25wapk/temporary\_fix\_for\_steam\_crashing\_while\_playing/

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-03T23:28:49+00:00

    I fixed my crashes by disabling Windows Defender.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-23T02:49:08+00:00

    Doubt that since I've been running without defender and still have the problem.  All these people that randomly think it/they fix it just aren't understanding how random it is.  I can go days without a steamservice crash and then just like now I've had 4 in a 1 hour gaming session.   Same bex crash others have experienced.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-01-23T22:23:14+00:00

    Still crashes in Build 9926

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