Freeze when opening steam overlay

[mlandalv]

Your system information

• System information from steam in a gist: link
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Problem started occuring after the March 15th update.

Open the steam overlay and a few seconds later the game will freeze. Happens both in menus and in-game.

I though this might've had something to do with the #1244 fix but the game hangs regardless of audio mode.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Start game
2. Open overlay and browse a couple of seconds

[kisak-valve]

Hello @mlandalv, the steam overlay is part of the steam client. Are you using the steam stable client or the steam beta client? Are other games affected as well?

~I was unable to reproduce this issue in a timely manner on my Gentoo no-steam-runtime system with the 375.26 nvidia driver.~

Update: To reproduce, open the steam overlay, view community hub, leave on a gif for up to 5 minutes. Confirmed on Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu 16.04/16.10

The steamwebhelper process appears to go unresponsive while using about 80% of a core. This is most likely not related to video drivers.

[mlandalv]

I'm using the stable. I can dig more into this tomorrow and rollback to 375.26 and see if that helps.

[mlandalv]

Doesn't seem to be related to CSGO. Crash occurs in Super Meat Boy too.

For me it doesn't take more than 5-10 seconds before the game crashes. Crash occurs with and without steam native.

[swervem8]

Any fix to this?

[lukaskj]

I'm experiencing the same issue now. And just opening the overlay with chats.

Steam Stable Ubuntu 16.10 Kernel 4.8.0-46-generic

[af7567]

I have the overlay crash too, but it happens in csgo, white noise 2 and distance so it must be a steam bug. I am also using the steam stable client. I have to kill the game executable to be able to get back to steam and relaunch the game.

Slackware64-current Kernel 4.10.6 Nvidia 378.13 drivers

[kutuzof]

Yeah, I'm getting this too. My problem is that now I can't close Steam because it says I should first close TF2, but TF2 is frozen and the ubuntu task bar will only let me try to close Steam.

Ubuntu: 16.04.02 Kernel: 4.8.0-54-generic Nvidia 370.66

[mlandalv]

Probably same as this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4933

[DanielPower]

I'm experiencing this issue as well. I'm pretty sure it never happened before about a month ago. It's been happening pretty frequently lately though.

[GiulianoCTRL]

Same issues on my Arch install with Steam-stable. However, CS:GO seems to be working fine, while Hitman^TM freezes immeadetly on pressing Shift+Tab or stutters on notification pop up.

[g0ga]

Still happens both CSGO and Portal2

[ozrak]

Same issue for me on Arch and CS:GO. If i recieve a message or open overlay in-game it freezes and I can't alt-tab or switch to any other window either. Probably same as https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4933

[nightsky30]

I'm seeing this as well in game with the overlay. I have to kill csgo and restart. System Info: https://gist.github.com/nightsky30/5cae2bb13932b0dbde200910673cde8f

[DanielPower]

I haven't experienced the issue in a couple months. So I'm not sure if it's been fixed for me, or if I've been lucky, since it seemed to be very random even when it was happening.

[PewieStiffin]

I still have this issue, does anyone know if theres been a fix yet?

[Belval]

I have this issue, please fix or provide steps so I can fix the problem myself.

[DanielPower]

This issue just happened to me again when I tried to sell an item on CS:GO. The moment the overlay and web browser popped up, the game completely froze and I had to force kill the process.

[gsgleason]

Me too, thanks.

[mlandalv]

Yay, this seems to be fixed with today's Steam Client update!

[kisak-valve]

Per https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4933#issuecomment-389368082, please opt into Steam's beta client and retest this issue.

[kisak-valve]

Closing as fixed in the 2018-05-15 Steam client beta.