An example of some of the glitchy menus, fwiw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwFuCqakOf4
Might need to watch that in 60fps to see them
And some more; in this one you can sometimes see flickering over on the lefthand side of the screen, too. Again, might need to watch in 60fps. Also, it looks worse "live"; the video capture doesn't get all the flickers.
I suppose a full system info dump hadn't been put in here yet, so here's mine:
Steam Version: 1687386907
Steam Client Build Date: Wed, Jun 21 4:18 PM UTC -08:00
Steam Web Build Date: Wed, Jun 21 5:26 PM UTC -08:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient020
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model: TUF B450-PLUS GAMING
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
CPU Family: 0x17
CPU Model: 0x8
CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3400 MHz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
"Arch Linux" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.3.9-arch1-1
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12101008
X Window Manager: IceWM 3.4.0 (linux-gnu/x86_64)
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20230509.49499
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.54.03
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1c03
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.04" x 11.26" (22.95" diag), 50.9cm x 28.6cm (58.3cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 6144 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x
Sound card:
Audio device: Nvidia GPU 84 HDMI/DP
Memory:
RAM: 32025 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 583502 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 50592 MB
Storage:
Number of SSDs: 4
SSD sizes: 1000G,1000G,0B,0B
Number of HDDs: 0
Number of removable drives: 0
And, for good measure, some recent steam logs which I noticed was asked-for when submitting a semi-related bug:
steam-logs.tar.gz
Sure would be nice if this was dealt with. Pretty sick of bright flashes all over the screen. Valve seems to think "Flash Bang as a feature" is a "thing."
The rect draw "flash" is still an issue on top of the clicking through menus...I wonder how many years this will go on...place your bets!
This is still an issue. Menus are all drawn at screen coordinates 0x0 before being moved to where they should be creating the now "classic" nagging flashes.
Steam Beta Branch: Steam Beta Update
Steam Version: 1741737356
Steam Client Build Date: Tue, Mar 11 14:39 UTC -08:00
Steam Web Build Date: Tue, Mar 11 17:45 UTC -08:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient021
Still alive and well...
Steam Beta Branch: Steam Beta Update
Steam Version: 1743221926
Steam Client Build Date: Fri, Mar 28 21:53 UTC -08:00
Steam Web Build Date: Thu, Mar 27 14:17 UTC -08:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient022
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4f64ce6c-5b24-4dc7-8809-05814d40e0c2
You can see the nasty white rect draw flashes in the menus and mirrored at co-ordinates 0x0 with the offset of their draw position relative to the steam window.
You may also notice LIBRARY is selected yet it still shows Downloads...I have to click on Library more than once to make it actually change. Every since the "UI feature parity" BS to add GPU acceleration the UI is a mess. Menu click through is still there even with the compatibility turned on, rect flashes, unresponsive menu items (click it does something, normally just reloads what is loaded rather than what was clicked on). UI "Squash" (shown in the first screenshot/OP off my roommates machine), Cloud Sync constantly reenables itself then nags you next launch about being unable to sync...Steam is a dumpster fire and these tickets are years old already!
For the record when I first opened this both my roommate and myself were running nVidia GPU's. I however am now running an AMD Radeon...same same. So on the topic of system specs etc this clearly has little to nothing to do with system spec or setup for anyone that might say it's our setups/hardware. Different GPU's, GPU brands, drivers, wildly different environments. @apocalyptech is on IceWM, I'm on CTWM, @Shannibelle is on XFCE. I've experienced this on multi GPU (nVidia) machines, GTX cards, Quadro cards, Radeon cards, Intel CPU's, AMD CPU's...Steam is just broken.
As a note for this post enabling GPU acceleration seems to fix this...but for the reason I have it disabled in the first place it breaks other things. @apocalyptech and @Shannibelle will have to weigh in on if they also have it disabled but it should work either way...and it used to. There are many reasons why someone could/would want GPU acceleration disabled...much like I want cloud sync disabled...There are options for these things but they often do not work or constantly reset themselves. For myself given Steam with the UI update iirc 2 or 3 years ago the client 100% broke due to GTK dependencies. Steam no longer worked -at all- if run on an XScreen other than 0.0 and would wrongfully attach to the wrong GPU even when run on 0.0. If it chose the GPU for 0.1 (like Counter Strike 2 does https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/3395) but was then run on 0.0 it would never launch. Like wise if you launched on 0.1 and it chose the GPU for 0.1...it still would not launch...[slow clap for Valve]. So GPU acceleration disabled and launch for 0.0 you can finally launch the "Steaming Pile." [Bonus slow clap for Valve.] [ see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9942 : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9591 : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9980 ]
Your system information
Steam Client Build Date: Wed, Jun 14 14:18 UTC -08:00
Steam Web Build Date: Wed, Jun 14 15:41 UTC -08:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient020
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
She expects when she clicks on various UI to not be blasted by white flashes (she is photosensitive) or to deal with lingering black squares.
She expects Steam to remember it's position/size on reopen. (it no longer does)
*I am reporting this for my roomate.
Steps for reproducing this issue: