steam overlay not working.

[polo]

My steam overlay hasn't been working recently and I'v tried many things yet nothing has worked,
please leave your ideas on how I can make the steam overlay show, I have tried turning it on and off in settings, running GAMEOVERLAYUI as admin and reinstalling it.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Check what overlay hotkeys you set. You change this at all?

Do you have other apps that have overlays? If so it might be trying to interfere with Steam overlay.

Do you have overlay shortcut keys set same as for something else, that might be causing interference to opening it.

[polo]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Check what overlay hotkeys you set. You change this at all?

Do you have other apps that have overlays? If so it might be trying to interfere with Steam overlay.

Do you have overlay shortcut keys set same as for something else, that might be causing interference to opening it.

Changed it once to alt-1 to see if it would work

https://prnt.sc/t55a20 here are the apps i run, I used to have razer synapse but I removed it when i heard it would temper with the overlay

also, discord is shift-¬ thats the only shortcut key that I see. Thanks

[Ovzuu]

im have this problem on the second account

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by polo:

Changed it once to alt-1 to see if it would work

https://prnt.sc/t55a20 here are the apps i run, I used to have razer synapse but I removed it when i heard it would temper with the overlay

also, discord is shift-¬ thats the only shortcut key that I see. Thanks

Disable discord overlay, and see if anything changes.

[polo]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by polo:

Changed it once to alt-1 to see if it would work

https://prnt.sc/t55a20 here are the apps i run, I used to have razer synapse but I removed it when i heard it would temper with the overlay

also, discord is shift-¬ thats the only shortcut key that I see. Thanks

Disable discord overlay, and see if anything changes.

nothing seemed to change

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Here few things that comes to mind, some of them is up to you if you want to do it.

- Ensure the box is checked for "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game" under Steam settings under In-Game.

- Run Steam as Admin.

- Restart PC.

- Opt in beta, or if already in beta opt out instead. Steam settings under account, and you see the change button.

- Reinstalling Steam, to keep games is simple. Upload all your screenshots 1st so don't lose them. Next go to where you install Steam, move "Steamapp" folder outside of the "Steam" Folder, as "Steamapp" holds your games, and key files that tells your Steam client what games are installed, once it's outside of "Steam" folder, you can uninstall Steam, if "Steam" folder still remaining, delete it, then reinstall Steam, launch Steam, once client downloaded, do not login, just exit out of Steam, move back "Steamapp" folder back into "Steam" folder, then launch Steam, and login, and test to see if issue resolved.

[polo]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Here few things that comes to mind, some of them is up to you if you want to do it.

- Ensure the box is checked for "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game" under Steam settings under In-Game.

- Run Steam as Admin.

- Restart PC.

- Opt in beta, or if already in beta opt out instead. Steam settings under account, and you see the change button.

- Reinstalling Steam, to keep games is simple. Upload all your screenshots 1st so don't lose them. Next go to where you install Steam, move "Steamapp" folder outside of the "Steam" Folder, as "Steamapp" holds your games, and key files that tells your Steam client what games are installed, once it's outside of "Steam" folder, you can uninstall Steam, if "Steam" folder still remaining, delete it, then reinstall Steam, launch Steam, once client downloaded, do not login, just exit out of Steam, move back "Steamapp" folder back into "Steam" folder, then launch Steam, and login, and test to see if issue resolved.

tried everything yet still doesn't work. I also forgot to mention that the only game I have on my local drive is rust, the others are on my 1tb drive, i'm not too sure if that makes a difference

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Shouldn't matter what drive it's on, as Steam overlay is an overlay for whatever app it's running over on. Do

If you did do everything as you said, then this is what I can think of.
- Something broke that needed to running app correctly, such as driver.

- Something interfering with Steam overlay from being able to appar, or run. What you can try is running Windows in safemode with network enable, open Steam, launch game, and see if overlay works, as nothing should start up, or run in the background besides only Steam, and your game. If doesn't work, then something wrong on system software end.

To get into safemode on Windows, press Windows key + R key, a run commend will appar, type "msconfig" without quotes, you see a window appar, click the boot tab, now check box for safemode, and enable network, click apply, and restart, to undo safe mode, just repeat same thing to undo safe mode but disable safemode option. https://imgur.com/wEpCohw

[polo]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Shouldn't matter what drive it's on, as Steam overlay is an overlay for whatever app it's running over on. Do

If you did do everything as you said, then this is what I can think of.
- Something broke that needed to running app correctly, such as driver.

- Something interfering with Steam overlay from being able to appar, or run. What you can try is running Windows in safemode with network enable, open Steam, launch game, and see if overlay works, as nothing should start up, or run in the background besides only Steam, and your game. If doesn't work, then something wrong on system software end.

To get into safemode on Windows, press Windows key + R key, a run commend will appar, type "msconfig" without quotes, you see a window appar, click the boot tab, now check box for safemode, and enable network, click apply, and restart, to undo safe mode, just repeat same thing to undo safe mode but disable safemode option. https://imgur.com/wEpCohw

ok so i loaded it up and it put me to a stretched resolution where when the second i loaded steam up it would stop responding making it impossible to go to the library to run it..

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by polo:

ok so i loaded it up and it put me to a stretched resolution where when the second i loaded steam up it would stop responding making it impossible to go to the library to run it..

You can change the resolution to your native resolution.

If Steam just crashes when you launch it, then something wrong either you have a driver issue that need to be repair, or might be using out of date drivers, and may try updating Windows.