Steam leaving black spot on screen

[21's bitch]

It started happening recently (days/weeks), for some reason sometimes i find a weird black mark on the right center of my screen that overlaps everything else except the mouse cursor.

I quickly found out it isn't my display (since the cursor covers it just fine) and thought it could be something going on with my GPU and started freaking out.

For the first time i tried closing Steam (and nothing else) just for the sake of testing, and the mark indeed disappeared.

Could it still be related to my GPU or something else, or is it a Steam related issue? Has anyone else experienced this?

[ReBoot]

Disable hardware acceleration for Steam, see if that changes things. Also, update your graphics driver.

[21's bitch]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Disable hardware acceleration for Steam, see if that changes things. Also, update your graphics driver.

Thanks for the tip, can you tell me how to please?

My drivers are update.

[ReBoot]

Settings->interface

[21's bitch]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Settings->interface

Yep i had "Enabled GPU accelerated rendering in web views" On, toggled it Off now.

[rawWwRrr]

Can you post a screenshot of it?

[21's bitch]

Originally posted by ʀᴀᴡWᴡRʀʀ:

Can you post a screenshot of it?

Sorry it's gone now, when (if) it happens again i will take a screenshot for sure.

It's a very small black mark, kinda in the shape of a triangle.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧the.jester]

Judging by the position, it sounds like it could Nihamic Audio overlay / sonic studio overlay not playing nicely.

[Loku2]

had the same issue and turning off gpu acceleration fixed it. i had no idea steam was causing it until i stumbled this thread(yes i know its a year old)

[SteveLosive]

This should be added to the FAQ. Thank you so much, I was lost until I found this discussion.

[[PdAM] Ghivvex]

Thank you very much, I've changed that setting and the black dot has simply disappeared.
I changed my monitor because of this problem and when it popped up with the new one, I died.

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Disable hardware acceleration for Steam, see if that changes things. Also, update your graphics driver.

[SteveLosive]

Originally posted by Ghivvex:

Thank you very much, I've changed that setting and the black dot has simply disappeared.
I changed my monitor because of this problem and when it popped up with the new one, I died.

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Disable hardware acceleration for Steam, see if that changes things. Also, update your graphics driver.

Same bro

[swiss_cheese88]

this happened to me, i just task killed steam and it went away

[smeebo]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Can you post a screenshot of it?

https://prnt.sc/17ps8tg
I have this issue but I solved it by closing "steamwebhelper" in task manager. I was just wondering if other people had this issue but similar to this guy I thought I was having hardware issues lol.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by zzz:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Can you post a screenshot of it?

https://prnt.sc/17ps8tg
I have this issue but I solved it by closing "steamwebhelper" in task manager. I was just wondering if other people had this issue but similar to this guy I thought I was having hardware issues lol.

It has been posted multiple times in the bug report forum the past 6 months.

[Chris Delpinsky]

Thanks, you saved me! I was looking for an answer on Google when I came across your message...unbelievable.