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Misty_TTM

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Registered: 2023-12-02

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Steam overlay not working

Hi there, I've spent the last hour looking through the docs and also on the forums and I can't seem to find anyone who's had the same problems as me with the steam overlay. I'm using KDE as my desktop and I think at one point I was getting steam notifications, but now I no longer get any notifications from steam. On top of this pressing shift+tab in any game doesn't bring up the overlay. Opening links in game only opens the steam client. I'm not quite sure what I need to provide here to help solve this issue so help would be more than appreciated

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,580

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Re: Steam overlay not working

What is your graphics hardware and driver?

lspci -knn -d ::03xx

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Misty_TTM

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Registered: 2023-12-02

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Re: Steam overlay not working

What is your graphics hardware and driver?

lspci -knn -d ::03xx

I'm using a NVIDIA GTX 1650 mobile GPU, and I believe I'm using the proprietary drivers? although I'm not entirely sure on that one

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] [8086:9bc4] (rev 05)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Video
	Subsystem: Dell CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] [1028:0a64]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f9d] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [1028:0a64]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Last edited by Misty_TTM (2023-12-03 05:20:12)

Misty_TTM

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Registered: 2023-12-02

Posts: 3

Re: Steam overlay not working

I checked again today, and I am recieving steam notifications both in game and on my desktop, so only the steam overlay is missing.

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,580

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Re: Steam overlay not working

A quick search suggests some problems between the Vulkan drivers used by Steam and NVIDIA's drivers. Does the overlay work if you run steam from the iGPU (just for testing purposes)?

I have zero motivation for fixing NVIDIA's problems though, sorry. You probably shouldn't have given money to a company that hates the open source community.

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