Windows 11 has transformed into a Linux-like system?
Windows 11 has transformed into a Linux-like system?
Now in Steam I face the same problem on Windows 11 as I did on Linux. When I click play, the game launches but then stops, and the play button reappears. I tried a game that doesn’t require online access and got an error. Make sure your name field is active on your PC, then retry. This issue seems linked to OneDrive—why would I need it running if the game already works locally without internet?
Alright, so, yes this is stupid and should be done better. Here's a pointer, it'll only be useful if this is related to OneDrive at all. When you have your documents synced with OD, what would normally go into C:\users\you\Documents now goes to C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents If OneDrive is enabled post-install, it will initially move the stuff from the former to the latter, unless you told it to not sync that particular folder. If OneDrive is running but you are offline, this is still accessible and will sync when you're back online. If you outright stop OneDrive or it is otherwise not running, however, it isn't accessible. Some games will store data in there though, such as saved games and mods. So if the game verifies that it is able to read and write those things before letting you play, that would be problematic. Another thing that can happen, and this has caused a little stress with an important piece of software at work, is that some software will look for a file using an absolute path. So if a file was previously found in C:\users\you\Documents and OneDrive later was enabled and moved that to C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents the software will not find it. In the case of our incident at work, the software would not launch and not offer to browse for the new location of the file, so the only solution was to copy it from C:\users\you\OneDrive\Documents to C:\users\you\Documents so the software would launch and we could then point it to the new location. So it's not that you need OneDrive to do this, but if you had OneDrive enabled in the past and you've now disabled it without going through the full process of copying your stuff to the "traditional" location and cleanly removing OneDrive, that's likely to cause issues. Good luck, I hope that helps.
For Steam the problem stemmed from several redistributions I had to handle, ranging from 3.5 to 4.8.1. DirectX runtime for end users also enabled legacy settings after I checked again. The desktop shortcuts were changed to point at a single drive, so I removed them. Warning for others: deleting a file marked as on one drive will erase all copies across the system—be cautious before you delete anything. Thanks to both of you.