Steam won't open.

[ConnorBlags]

Steam has worked for the past 6 months perfectly. Tried to open today and i get the same issue;

"Steam encountered an unexpected error during startup (0x3008).

Choose one of the following;
Restart Steam
Restart Steamwebhelper
Exit Steam "

None of which worked.

I have attempted to redownload Whisky, I have attempted to re download Steam, Then Re-run/bottle steam.

Has anyone had this before and know how to fix?

[AaronKelley]

See #1336.

[Aaru1801]

Same Issue 😭. And the dev said that he is partially discontinued this project 😭.

[Lancelotbronner]

@Aaru1801 Where did you see that? I had been working on a v2 of Whisky with an updated Wine so I can probably keep maintaining it.

[Aaru1801]

@Lancelotbronner i saw it on another post
someone posted an image of discord of you saying that i will be maintaining it but i wont update the wine and dont expect me to and dont ask about it either.

[MLnick]

Where did you see that? I had been working on a v2 of Whisky with an updated Wine so I can probably keep maintaining it.

@Lancelotbronner if you fork this project and create an updated maintained branch the community would love you! I've tried Kegworks and it works - but somehow Whisky just seems to be so much simpler and work out the box for a lot of stuff.

If we can get Whisky to be on a Wine version just one less than Crossover (which Whisky originally aimed for and also Kegworks, so as to allow Crossover to be the cutting edge commercial version) - that would be amazing!

[Chipmunks356]

I got the same issue here, I thought it was because of the new macos update.

[pavela82]

The same problem has just appeared. Steam does not start. The child is sitting next to me and crying that he can't play mechwarrior :(( This is a disaster! I've been using this for over a year now and everything worked. What should I do, what is the alternative?

[Chipmunks356]

The same problem has just appeared. Steam does not start. The child is sitting next to me and crying that he can't play mechwarrior :(( This is a disaster! I've been using this for over a year now and everything worked. What should I do, what is the alternative?

I mean there is crossover, you can use the free trial and run some code to keep the trial going forever. It ends every 14 days but it seems like a pain to do it every two weeks.

[pavela82]

The same problem has just appeared. Steam does not start. The child is sitting next to me and crying that he can't play mechwarrior :(( This is a disaster! I've been using this for over a year now and everything worked. What should I do, what is the alternative?

I mean there is crossover, you can use the free trial and run some code to keep the trial going forever. It ends every 14 days but it seems like a pain to do it every two weeks.

Thanks, we'll try. I didn't know there was anything except Whiskey)

[Lancelotbronner]

Where did you see that? I had been working on a v2 of Whisky with an updated Wine so I can probably keep maintaining it.

@Lancelotbronner if you fork this project and create an updated maintained branch the community would love you! I've tried Kegworks and it works - but somehow Whisky just seems to be so much simpler and work out the box for a lot of stuff.

If we can get Whisky to be on a Wine version just one less than Crossover (which Whisky originally aimed for and also Kegworks, so as to allow Crossover to be the cutting edge commercial version) - that would be amazing!

Knowing there's some interest is going to help me with motivation!
I'm currently in Uni so I'll resume work this summer.

[djmati149]

Steam has worked for the past 6 months perfectly. Tried to open today and i get the same issue;

"Steam encountered an unexpected error during startup (0x3008).

Choose one of the following; Restart Steam Restart Steamwebhelper Exit Steam "

None of which worked.

I have attempted to redownload Whisky, I have attempted to re download Steam, Then Re-run/bottle steam.

Has anyone had this before and know how to fix?

Hi, I found a solution to the problem. Just change the bottle configuration from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1. Set MSync and everything should work. The problem I haven't found a solution to is the resolution in the game. Tested on Desperados 3. If Retina mode is not enabled, the Steam window looks normal but the resolution in the game itself reaches a maximum of 1440x900, while after enabling Retina mode, the Steam window has very small letters but the resolution in the game can be set to a larger one, e.g. the one our display/monitor has. Changing the dpi in Whiskey has no effect.

Tested on MacBook Air 13.3'' M1 8/256GB

[adamkingdotnet]

Hi, I found a solution to the problem. Just change the bottle configuration from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1. Set MSync and everything should work.

This worked for me too. Started with a fresh Windows 10 bottle, installed Steam fully, and then switched to Windows 8.1.

M1 MacBook Air, Sequoia 15.4

[maia-s]

Changing it to Windows 8.1 worked for me too. There's a banner on top of Steam that says "Steam will stop running on Windows 8.1 in 0 days" (links to this), but it works fine (for now). I didn't have to make a fresh bottle, changing my existing one with games installed worked. The display settings in some games got reset but configuring them again fixed that.

[JacobSteinebronn]

Changing it to 8.1 worked, for getting steam to run, but the game I've been running (Satisfactory) crashes on startup now. It used to work beforehand :(

[BigJyugo]

Ive changed it to 8.1 and its still saying theres an error :(