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Steam Background Recording on Steam Deck freezes on a frame a couple of seconds after launching game

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12993 · opened 2026-03-16 by ericswpark · updated 2026-08-06 · 1 comments · github
Eericswpark 2026-03-16 github

Your system information

  • SteamOS version: 3.7.20
  • SteamOS build: 20260108.1
  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1773426488,
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): SteamOS Holo
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: AMD (Steam Deck OLED)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

This appears to be a regression of https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12072

A couple of seconds after launching the game, the background recording will stop and freeze at a frame. Audio continues to get normally recorded. I tried manually stitching together the video inside the ~/.local/share/steam directory following this guide but it still results in the same video where the video stream appears to show the single slide.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Launch game
  2. Play for a bit
  3. Check background recording. Screen will be frozen in the recording but audio should be fine
NNincolP 2026-08-06 github

This is still an issue as of today, with the latest Steam OS build even on beta branch.