Go to the settings & check to see if GPU accelerated rendering is activated. It was for me when I had that black screen, switching it off fixed it.
@lucifertdark thank you so much, was experiencing this on x11 on arch and downgrading my nvidia drivers to 545.29.06 had done nothing. Turning off GPU Accelerated rendering was the ticket!
Go to the settings & check to see if GPU accelerated rendering is activated. It was for me when I had that black screen, switching it off fixed it.
Worked perfectly, thank you for taking the time to reply.
@lucifertdark solution worked.
Is this something that should be closed, the original configuration seems like it broke in between updates @Wazzzzuzp
I don't think disabling GPU acceleration is a satisfying solution. The option is very much needed when you want to use Big Picture for instance. Without acceleration it lags terribly. That is to say we have only found a workaround and not an actual solution.
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Opened Steam today and it updated.
It installed the update and rebooted.
On reopening Steam was a black screen with working menus.
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