'exit Steam' Doesn't Close Steam.

Xiile

<div class="IPBDescription">Look here.</div> I noticed this when exiting steam by right clicking the system tray icon and exiting steam. Attached below is a screenshot of my task manager 5 MINUTES AFTER Steam closes. Notice in this picture that Steam is <u>still open</u>. It is also <u>still eating your bandwidth.</u> End the Steam process and then you should be fine.

<b>Note: You must only do this AFTER you right click the icon to close. If you do not it may end up freezing the computer.</b>

<i>This will also solve any problems including not being able to open Steam after you close it.</i>

BTW I had to cut some excess stuff out of the picture thats why its shaped oddly.

Gliss

Yes, that did happen to me when I was playing, I didn't know why my ping was 200, and then I closed Steam. Worked fine... Then ping jumped up. I 'End Process'd it, and then it was fine. Is this supposed to be intentional to make us all go insane?

Xiile

Heh, maybe. Probably.

Kaine

they've probably just forgotten to remove it from memory. or it is spyware (Flame away, i'm not going to read it) or they are absolutely determined to rape bandwidth. no matter what.

Bosnian_Cowboy

Steam had this problem in Beta. You would close it but it would show up in task bar and still waste memory. They fixed it somewhat but it still happens sometimes.

Teflon

Okay.

After fighting with Steam for 5 hours (Yes, 5 hours of my life sucked away. Most of which was spent downloading over 1 gigabyte of data (NS 2.0, HL Full 1.1.1.0, SteamInstallCS, Steam.HL.And.CS.Rar (BitTorrent), and the regular steam install).

As you can see, I was prepared to try anything. Now I have really no problems with Steam. I've found out the program takes an eternity to close and open (Actually it runs fairly fast for me... but before, it ran like molasses flowing uphill). So basically the program is so convoluted with crappy code that it's TRYING to close, but it's just way too slow.

I bet you guys also have a problem that it says 'preparing to play halflife' and it takes about 2 minutes until it actually runs the game. See, for me it's really fast, but like I said, the first few times through, it ran like crap.

I dunno what to say... I just closed mine and steam.exe is gone. Give it a few minutes and see if it goes away.

Oh yes, about raping bandwidth... I like how Steam is using 20 kb/s even though I'm not even using Steam...

ANeM

the way I see it, its not so much spyware more of P2P network.
Lets look at it this way. Bit torrent allows for people to download files and upload. Once you are finished it is your choice to leave it open after for a few more people to get the file from you and speed up stuff. Steam works like that... Except it FORCES you to help people. Steam basicly proposes to have a small cluster of servers almost instantly take the load of something that use to take hundreds servers and long periods of time to do. That would be patches. lots of people play HL, lots of people need the patches? How do we get all the patches out? make more server! How do we do that without spending thousands of dollars on servers? Force people to make them for us!

Parasite

The retarded thing is that this was a problem in earlier betas, and it was fixed in the late betas....WTH happened...a ton of bugs were RE introduced!