A Steam Engine Instance already exists

steamclosed reviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#226 · opened 2012-12-21 by originalred · updated 2013-01-23 · 1 comments · github

Ooriginalred 2012-12-21 github

Got the message

"Fatal Error: Steam failed to load: *SteamStartEngine(0xffc53b50) failed with error 1: A Steam Engine Instance already exists"

today when clicking on the "Group chat" link on http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410 (linktarget=steam://friends/joinchat/103582791433699581) from Google Chrome.

Steam was running (obviously)

Opensuse 12.2 x64 via http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam

Ddavidw-valve maintainer 2013-01-23 github

This seems to work for me right now. I'm closing it. Please re-open if you can still reproduce it.

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