I was setting up my Steam install on my computer, and when I went to start Steam it kept bugging me that the Steam Service wasn't working, and it wanted me to set it up again.
When I press 'cancel', Steam starts up. But when I try to start Rebel Galaxy, the game won't start. When I select to set it up again, the dialogue stops responding. Googling the issue I got the suggestion to start the Steam Service repair function through [Steam Directory]\bin\steamservice.exe /repair
, but it just sits there doing nothing.
How can I fix this?
Best Answer
My issue occurred because I copied and pasted the entire Steam Library I had thus far. This was around 3TB of data, and when you repair using 'steamservice.exe', it will scan your entire library.
To fix this, I did the following:
Depending on the size, and how long you want to wait, you can just copy your original 'steamapps' folder to another location. However, when I renamed 'steamapps' to 'steamapps-bak' it took no time at all.
Also, depending on your OS, step 5 might fail because of the existing 'steamapps' folder (I use Windows 10 and there was no issue, but I do recall older OS's complaining when you try to rename a folder to one that already exists in the same location).
In this case I would