Steam Api init failed: k_ESteamAPIInitResult_FailedGeneric: No SteamClient023

[kasimir-spellgarden]

Hi,

after trying to figure out what is happening I am trying it here, maybe some of you have encountered this issue before. A few users have reported that the game crashes or freezes and it turns out that for them the SteamAPI.InitEx() fails with code "No SteamClient023". I have not been able to find out what that means exactly. I can't find any documentation from steam that mentions this (except random players beeing annoyed that the game doesn't start)

I also happens very rarely, like 1 in a 100, so I can't really test this. It only ever happened to me once and after restarting the PC it never showed up again. But after two people have reported the same issue I feel I am doing sth wrong.

The consfusing part is that SteamAPI.IsSteamRunning() return true, but then the SteamAPI.InitEx fails.
I am using .NET: 2025.163.0 in my game atm. (DLL: 10.24.16.75)

The wild thing about this is that SteamAPI.RestartAppIfNecessary((AppId_t) steamID) does not fail, so it kind of is properly connected, but also not?

Would it be safer to just use the old Init() function without an error message or will that not make a difference? Should I rather downgrade to an older version?

[Akarinnnnn]

According to this link

It basically means your player's steam don't support such version of underlying Steamworks API adapter. You don't have much can do. Try ask Valve what happening?

[hedgehog1029]

Also seeing this as a modder, running a Windows game on Linux - I guess SteamClient023 is the interface version, but it doesn't seem to be sent directly in the InitEx call so I guess it's inferred?

I can only assume that some part of the stack is out of date. My client appears to be fully up to date (on the beta branch, even) but maybe there's a steamclient.so somewhere that is behind a version?

[Akarinnnnn]

SteamClient023 is referred by constant STEAMCLIENT_INTERFACE_VERSION here, it's in startup process:

Steamworks.NET/com.rlabrecque.steamworks.net/Runtime/Steam.cs

Lines 407 to 409 in a503766

	using (var pchVersionString = new InteropHelp.UTF8StringHandle(Constants.STEAMCLIENT_INTERFACE_VERSION)) {
	m_pSteamClient = NativeMethods.SteamInternal_CreateInterface(pchVersionString);
	}

[hedgehog1029]

Yeah, but it isn't directly referenced in the first part of the InitEx call, which is the bit that generates the error message. If it was failing in CSteamAPIContext.Init() then the error would be "[Steamworks.NET] Failed to initialize CSteamAPIContext"

[Akarinnnnn]

Yeah, but it isn't directly referenced in the first part of the InitEx call, which is the bit that generates the error message. If it was failing in CSteamAPIContext.Init() then the error would be "[Steamworks.NET] Failed to initialize CSteamAPIContext"

It used internally by libsteamapi.so