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Steam softcrashes on arch hyprland after launching any game

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13212 · opened 2026-05-15 by ooogerman · updated 2026-05-15 · 1 comments · github
Oooogerman 2026-05-15 github

Your system information

ryzen 7 7800x3d
32gb ddr5 6000mhz cl30 ram
rtx 4070 super

  • Steam client version (build number or date): beta may 14th
  • Distribution Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes but issue existed while i wasnt in beta too
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
    *There are so many logs i dont know which one to attach, i will attach if told what one to send tho
  • GPU: Nvidia

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

dont soft crash when i interact with a game

when launching a game, im not sure exactly what causes it as sometimes it happens after launching and sometimes it only happens after closing, but steam will essentially soft crash and not let you do anything, you can bring up certain menus but they dont do anything and going onto a different game page in your library will result in a blank screen with the steam logo and bufferring circle around it in the top left, sometimes you can wait a couple minutes and it will fix itself and sometimes it doesnt fix itself at all

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. open steam via any method
  2. launch a game or close a game
  3. try to interact with steam
Wwereii 2026-05-15 github

disable gamerecording

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