Windows 10: Steam non-responsive when attempting to download or add games

Hey guys

So I have put up with this problem for a while now, but it is getting fairly annoying now, especially when purchasing humble bundles adding heaps of keys and trying to download games.

It seems whenever I add a key to Steam, the application will go into the download phase after you have successfully added it Steam will completely become unresponsive for a varied amount of time (5mins max), or vice versa if I attempt to download a new game from my library.

The hard drive I am using is a 2TB WD Black, which to my knowledge was the best for gaming and whatnot when I bought it. (Also has the longest warranty).

I have run chkdsk & multiple different iterations of hard drive disk checks; including the WD one, and none are able to fault the hard drive in the slightest. Which means I am not really able to return the hard drive under warranty as I am not able to prove my fault.

The issue does subside very temporarily if I run a defrag prior to installing any games, but this will probably last a couple hours to days depending. I did set up a daily defrag on the hard drive thinking that would combat the issue, but it still seems to prevail.

When I am playing games or using the hard drive in any other way, I have absolutely zero problems. All games run as they should when tested on another hard drive in my system.

The only time the issue occurs is when I am adding a game or downloading a game in steam. Other clients like Uplay and Origin do not seem to cause any of the same issues.

I have reformatted the drive several times also, but this did not yield any different results.

The hard drive in question is no more than 8 months old, as I had a WD black fail on me previously for an unrelated problem.

Any help with this issue would be much appreciated, or at least any way that I may be able to prove that the drive is faulty so I can claim under warranty.

Sorry for the big wall of text!*Redface*Redface*Redface

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Windows 10 vs Steam Games

Hi Antonio,

Just to verify your concern, you are having trouble launching games on your PC that you purchased from Steam. Is this correct? If so, kindly provide us with the following information I have listed below:

• What games are you trying to launch that you are having issues with?
• Can you try launching other games like the default Windows games? (i.e. Solitaire)
• Are you getting any error messages when launching these games?
• What are the troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

Please advise. we'll keep an eye out to your response.

 

Add Minecraft to Steam Store

I think I understand two parts from the original request.

• It should be possible to buy Minecraft over Steam. But I can understand that this would mean a lot of legal discussions and contracts, as well as an internal conflict since Steam is essentially a competitor to the Windows Store Games section.
• It should be possible to add the game starter to an external application. This is not possible for the Windows 10 edition of Minecraft, it only works for the Java edition.

You could at least try to fix the second part of this request. So anyone could add Minecraft to an external application such as Steam:

Add Non-Steam Games to a Library. Any means to start Minecraft for Windows 10 via, say, an .exe file, could accomplish that. Sadly, Minecraft for Windows 10 uses some other "magic" to get it started, as it links to the Store (Minecraft.lnk properties shows
Microsoft.Minecraft UWP_<something>), where UWP is short for Universal Windows App. Nice, but not very helpful for classic program starters...