Fullscreen video turns screen into a strobe light

[gfaster]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1715635533
• Distribution:

OS: Linux 6.1.90, NixOS, 23.11 (Tapir), 23.11.6869.651b4702e27a
Host: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. STRIX Z270E GAMING
DE: Plasma 5.27.11 (Wayland)
WM: kwin
CPU: Intel i7-7700 (8) @ 4.200GHz
Resolution: 3840x2160, 2560x1440
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Rev. A (driver version 535.129.03)

# configuration.nix
programs.steam = {
    enable = true;
    gamescopeSession.enable = true;
};

• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Have you checked for system updates?: No - but new system
• Steam Logs: I have created them, but I am not willing to upload publicly - is there a direct upload portal?
  • I noticed in the webhelper.txt logs, WasHidden was oscillating rapidly on and off - changing ~320 times per second
  • in the steamwebhelper.log - there's a ton of AbortError: the play() request was interrupted by a call to pause()`
• GPU: NvidiaGeForce RTX 2080 Rev. A (driver version 535.129.03)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

On the steam store page for 4D golf, I tried to full screen the video and it locked up my screen and started strobing.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, I can only guess how many words a video is (WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS):

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/assets/26206127/8dfcf08a-0467-4383-9f31-af48f9d178a5

• This occurs on both my monitors
• It's worth noting that I appear to be suffering from #9209 as well

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Fullscreen the trailer video on any game's store page

[s-20]

Also happening to me on Bazzite (UniversalBlue/Silverleaf base).

[rph-r]

Same for me on Mint 21.2. It happens since some months, before it was ok

[thesimpledev]

I am having the same issue anytime I am on a store page and try to use the full screen button on a video. System Information Below.

Computer Information: Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Model: 0N92RM Form Factor: Laptop No Touch Input Detected Processor Information: CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Brand: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H CPU Family: 0x6 CPU Model: 0xba CPU Stepping: 0x2 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 4800 MHz 20 logical processors 14 physical processors Hyper-threading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Unsupported 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: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 6.9.3-76060903-generic X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server Release: 12101004 X Window Manager: GNOME Shell Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20240610.91380 Video Card: Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 550.67 OpenGL Version: 4.6 Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz VendorID: 0x8086 DeviceID: 0xa7a0 Revision Not Detected Number of Monitors: 4 Number of Logical Video Cards: 1 Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 2280 Primary Display Size: 13.23" x 8.27" (15.59" diag), 33.6cm x 21.0cm (39.6cm diag) Primary VRAM: 6141 MB Sound card: Audio device: Realtek ALC289 Memory: RAM: 31765 Mb VR Hardware: VR Headset: None detected Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Total Hard Disk Space Available: 951238 MB Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 386269 MB Storage: Number of SSDs: 1 SSD sizes: 1024G Number of HDDs: 0 Number of removable drives: 0

[edgarogh]

Also happens on fullscreen YouTube videos in guides. (Mint 21.3 here, RTX 3050M, 144Hz FHD screen, NVIDIA On-Demand profile)

[FanboyStudios]

I am also having this issue.

Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon, GTX 1070 running in NVIDIA Prime Profile Performance Mode.

#10597 - Same sort of issue.

[samw-26]

I have the same issue on steam version 1747701111 running Linux Mint 22.1. My graphics card is a RTX 3060 Mobile and I am using NVIDA Prime Profile performance mode.

I also found that when launching steam from the terminal or from a desktop shortcut, the issue does not occur. The issue only occurs for me when launching steam from the application menu or panel.

[edgarogh]

Since people were saying that Right click > Run with dedicated GPU made the problem disappeared, I tried to make this permanent. I seem to have fixed the issue by adding DRI_PRIME=1 to the environment variables in Steam's .desktop file.

On Mint, the "Menu Editor" app makes this really easy. Although I'm not 100% sure that this will survive app updates.

[jerume]

Since people were saying that Right click > Run with dedicated GPU made the problem disappeared, I tried to make this permanent. I seem to have fixed the issue by adding DRI_PRIME=1 to the environment variables in Steam's .desktop file.

On Mint, the "Menu Editor" app makes this really easy. Although I'm not 100% sure that this will survive app updates.

It doesn't work for me. Only by opening a terminal and launching steam does the job. What is strange is if i change the property of the steam icon in the main mint desktop menu, and choose " launch from a terminal", it still doesn't work.

[kalzun]

Same thing occurs on a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04.03.

steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1751405894
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (RADV NAVI22)

Works fine when running from terminal.