Steam Community in-game overlay not working in TF2

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2339 · opened 2013-04-24 by DarthBrandon · updated 2013-04-24 · 2 comments · github

DDarthBrandon 2013-04-24 github

I don't know if it was the 4/24 patch or if it's because of upgrading to the Steampipe beta, but the Steam Community in-game overlay (Shift+Tab) is no longer working in Team Fortress 2 on Linux. I still have the overlay enabled in Steam settings, and it's checked in the TF2 properties, but it's not functioning. The little pop-up about the overlay also doesn't show when loading TF2, so it seems completely disabled.

Don't know if this is a Linux issue or something across all platforms.

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 2801 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-40-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11103000
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-04-16

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GT 240/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0xca3
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1280 x 1024
Desktop Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Primary Display Size: 14.80" x 11.85"  (18.94" diag)
                                        37.6cm x 30.1cm  (48.1cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC888

Memory:
RAM: 5927 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 187359 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 87700 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Sun Apr 21 19:40:05 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130421153953_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-eb8976dd-49f0-4092-b58b-2a6642130421
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Wed Apr 24 18:58:39 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130424145828_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-f52beea1-4ec7-45c2-88ba-9c2282130424
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DDarthBrandon 2013-04-24 github

Well, I guess it may have been a temporary thing. The Steam beta prompted me to apply an update, and while it didn't seem to do anything, the overlay once again worked afterwards. So I guess I jumped the gun a bit.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-04-24 github

There was a problem with file permissions in the first beta client today which was fixed in the second, so you may have played with the first and then been fixed by the second.

Nothing extracted yet.