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All games hanging on startup after reformat

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  • SSD
  • Games
  • Hard Drives
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August 3, 2014 11:59:37 AM

Earlier i reformatted my SSD containing my OS (Win7 64bit). All of my games were kept on my other internal 1TB hard drive.

I have just reinstalled Steam and now whenever i try and launch a game, whether it's a big demanding game or a 100mb indie game, everything will hang on launch for about 30-45 seconds. I didn't have this issue before my reformat and everything launched almost instantly.

I have just installed the latest drivers for everything after this fresh install too so i'm clueless as to what could be causing the issue.

Any help would be very appreciated.

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August 3, 2014 2:51:33 PM

Just an update, i have just installed a few more games to test and a few of them are not doing it, thus it cannot be an issue with say 3D apps in general. Still any kind of steps to troubleshoot would be great as i have no clue what to do next.
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August 3, 2014 2:56:14 PM

have u installed the motherboard drivers..
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August 3, 2014 3:24:37 PM

prit87 said:
have u installed the motherboard drivers..


Hi, thanks for your reply. This issue is driving me insane since i literally did not have the issue 24 hours ago before i reformatted. Yes, i have a Gigabyte Z87X-D3H so i went here and installed from the top of the list downwards. I downloaded the drivers i thought i required, skipped the Intel INF installation and the SATA/RAID driver only.

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August 4, 2014 10:52:58 AM

Still having the issue, although i have managed to find a weird symptom. It is only for steam based games. If i run the same game via steam, it will hang but if i run the .exe without steam open it launches instantly as you would expect. At the end of my rope trying to find a fix or some kind of troubleshooting. Have reinstalled OS twice now and still regretting the initial reinstall that caused this error!
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