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FixedSteamFriendsUI is a project which makes Steam friends & chat work again after Valve broke it.
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Do you use a version of the Steam client released May 2023 or earlier?
Do you use the June or July 2023 client with the -vgui switch?
Do you use the August 2023 client with steam://restartinuimode/vgui?
If you answered yes to any of those, then you probably see this when you launch Steam:
This is Valve's handiwork. On September 21, 2023, Valve broke modern Steam friends/chat worldwide by updating it with exceedingly amateur untested code that causes a fatal error.
The error can be fixed in about 30 seconds by any Valve employee with at least 1 functioning finger and a keyboard, or in about 5 seconds by a normal human being. However, this is a very difficult and high bar to clear, since following Sept 21 2023 Valve has expended precisely zero effort to correct their error.
FixedSteamFriendsUI provides a patch for your Steam client which works around the issue. Once the patch is installed, you will be able to chat with your friends again like normal. The patch is semi-permanent, VAC-safe, and modifies only a single file where Steam is installed.