Steam Root?

Fl4THeAd

<div class="IPBDescription">freaky text error.</div> Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

Talesin

System specs?

Off the bat, I'd lean toward that looking like a Wine or WineX problem. It can 'slip' on some pointer assignments, which looks to be what happened, taking handle names and instead of resolving them properly, using it as a literal.

Marine0I

ditto for me - windows xp - I think it has a lot to do with that steam patch they recently released.

Fl4THeAd

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Wine or wineX? Don't understand that.

edit: does the same thing in default skin.

Fl4THeAd

Ok even freakier. How this fixes it. I don't really know, but it works.

<a href='http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22276' target='_blank'>http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread....&threadid=22276</a>

DY357LX

Someone posted a fix for this earlier today, something to do with
deleting a clientregistry.blob file or something.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=49194' target='_blank'>Original topic here.</a>

Javert

Back up the file before deleting. But yes, that is the correct fix.

What had happened was that you updated Steam (and usually that'd be a good thing but...)