Closed Fix: Steam thinks its running in compatibility mode

MiniLink · Dec 24, 2013

After today's update i noticed the Diagnostic button in the Starbound Launcher and it told me that steam is running in compatibility mode but after checking the options and the steam.exe setting it wasn't active so i looked it up and found this post.
It worked for me and steam is no longer in compatibility mode.

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Fix: Steam thinks its running in compatibility mode
Hi
Just thought I would post a solution to a problem I had with Steam on Windows 7 RC x64 (but I believe it can happen in vista as well)
Everything was working in steam for weeks until I went to close it down last night, when I exited steam windows poped up with a message stating it was going to apply compatility settings to steam as it detected a problem (no cancel or way to stop it doing this)
When I relaunched steam it poped up with a message telling me:
Running Steam in Windows compatibility mode is not recommended. Please remove any Windows compatibility settings for all users under file properties for Steam.exe and restart Steam. Press 'Cancel' to premanently ignore this warning and continue.

Reinstalling steam made no difference as well as trying to set compatibility settings under the shortcut. I eventually had a go of the application compatibility tool microsoft gives out to see that the settings saved on the machines local database and that triggering when I ran steam. I had a hunt through the registry and found the area where the keys are kept and deleted the key and my problems were gone.

To fix the issue:

Hit start->run->regedit

Go to key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers

Look for a entry with your path to steam.exe

Delete that entry

If you dont find it there try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers

Hope this helps if you get the issue.

Please feel free to register and say hello here and if you have any other problems in general please try a new post, you never know.
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Also thx to RvLesh for posting this
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RvLesh said: ↑

Steps to disable Compatibility Mode for Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=153387315

You also want to check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WoW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Compatibility Assistant\Layers if you're using a 64-bit version of Windows.

Also look for and remove Starbound.exe and Launcher.exe entries.
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