I have found that crashes with steam aren't generally steam, but
rather hardware or something else.  I certainly hope an
uninstall/reinstall resolves the issue, but I wouldn't be holding my
breath on it.

To answer your question, worst he'll do is lose his save games and
have to download stuff again.  You can generally back up the save
games though.  Backing up the games might be counter productive if you
think it's steam causing the crashes, you might want to download the
games again just to be sure.

Have you tried to do "Verify Integrity of game Cache"?


Christopher Fisk



On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Thane Sherrington
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a friend who uses Steam, but he's having some problems with it
> crashing so he wants to uninstall and reinstall.  If he does, will he lose
> the games he's downloaded, or should he back them up?  (I know nothing about
> Steam.)
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