Steam Overlay Freeze and Black Screen

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󠁳⁧⁧vip4r 23 May @ 1:49am

Hi everyone, while playing games for about 2 days, when I open the overlay with shift+tab, the whole computer freezes and after 20-30 seconds the black screen appears. It occurs in all games. The only solution is to restart it by pressing the case button, no key combination works and does not respond.

"I don't use Steam in beta version, I use it in normal version. I uninstalled my graphics driver with DDU and installed the latest version but the problem persists."

Specs:
RTX 4070 Super
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
32RAM
Windows 11 24H2
Graphic Driver: 576.52

And some threads opened on Steam about this error in recent days:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/forum/1/601905151053177514/

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/730/discussions/0/594023708174121698/

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/forum/7/626674265675069798/

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oMendigoVoador 23 May @ 7:24pm

bro, same here with 7800x3d and 4070ti super.
try the december nvidia driver and lemme know if fix it

Jason 24 May @ 1:45am

yea bro it happens to me and wont get fixed until I reboot my pc from case. I mean what are we even supposed to do

bloodaxel 24 May @ 2:26am

Same here. Happened twice with me, I notice that both times system crashed exactly when I opened someones profile, I guess this issue connected with steam browser somehow, makes me sick really

Jason 24 May @ 5:49am

Originally posted by bloodaxel:
Same here. Happened twice with me, I notice that both times system crashed exactly when I opened someones profile, I guess this issue connected with steam browser somehow, makes me sick really

You're telling the exact same thing that is happening to me, whenever I try to open someones profile or try to open screenshots it just crashes out

Kanonymous 24 May @ 10:19pm

this is happening to me, five time since few weeks... But I'm in beta version.

Brakston 25 May @ 12:01pm

Go to Steam > Settings > Interface

Then disable “GPU accelerated rendering in web views"

A 4E YA SRAZU 25 May @ 12:19pm

Exactly the same problem, 1-in-1 computer configuration as yours, December driver 566.36 does not fix anything, it seems that the problem is in the steam client itself.

Sinctova 29 May @ 6:16am

Having this problem currently aswell, any fixes?

⤜ Shuhrat Glazkov ⤏ 29 May @ 10:11am

sam problem over here. just disabled overlay for the time being

Kribs 29 May @ 1:04pm

I had the same problem multiple times. I may have found a fix. At least i tried to reproduce the problem again but I couldn't also limited testing in cs2.

I went to Steam Settings -> Interface -> DISABLED "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views (requires restart)" AND "Enable smooth scrolling in web views (requires restart)"

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RPG Gamer Man 29 May @ 2:25pm

Turn off all overlays. Then turn them on one at a time while testing steam with each turn on of each overlay. One of them might be causing the issue. This will be the only way to find out which one is causing it.

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sargent balls 29 May @ 11:22pm

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:
Turn off all overlays. Then turn them on one at a time while testing steam with each turn on of each overlay. One of them might be causing the issue. This will be the only way to find out which one is causing it.

Tried it, doesn't work for me, even when all overlays turned off, and applications like Discord disabled, the problem still occurs(at least for me)

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