Steam overlay audio stuttering

[Gs]

Anyone ells have audio stuttering with the new UI overlay ?
every time i open the overlay, and open something on it it makes all the audio stutter. its really annoying to listen too

[Gs]

I seem to be the only one i guess

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by Gs:

Anyone ells have audio stuttering with the new UI overlay ?
every time i open the overlay, and open something on it it makes all the audio stutter. its really annoying to listen too

Can you reproduce the problem? Is it unique to a particular game, or does it occur with all games?

I just tried launching Astro Colony and opened the overlay and clicked some things, and besides a slight graphic stutter on the first, had no further problems.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Try any of these methods.
- Opt in/out of Steam beta, and test.

- redownload Steam client files, head to where Steam is located, delete everything except for Steamapp folder, and steam.exe file, then once done run steam.exe to check if issue gone.

- If using HDD, defrag it, it could be that issue.

- If you're using any listen to yourself software, or windows setting to hear yourself on mic, or using mixer to listen to another audio source on same audio channel ensure that not causing the problem.

- If nothing else works test by disable Steam overlay to see if it issue goes away, if the issue still there then it's not the Steam overlay, it's something else.

[Gs]

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

Originally posted by Gs:

Anyone ells have audio stuttering with the new UI overlay ?
every time i open the overlay, and open something on it it makes all the audio stutter. its really annoying to listen too

Can you reproduce the problem? Is it unique to a particular game, or does it occur with all games?

I just tried launching Astro Colony and opened the overlay and clicked some things, and besides a slight graphic stutter on the first, had no further problems.

Happens on all games, started when steam updated to the new ui, i went to the beta to see if it would stop but its still happening.

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Try any of these methods.
- Opt in/out of Steam beta, and test.

- redownload Steam client files, head to where Steam is located, delete everything except for Steamapp folder, and steam.exe file, then once done run steam.exe to check if issue gone.

- If using HDD, defrag it, it could be that issue.

- If you're using any listen to yourself software, or windows setting to hear yourself on mic, or using mixer to listen to another audio source on same audio channel ensure that not causing the problem.

- If nothing else works test by disable Steam overlay to see if it issue goes away, if the issue still there then it's not the Steam overlay, it's something else.

steam is installed on a ssd, already reinstalled steam once just to make sure, didn't fix it

If i disable steam overlay it goes away since it only happens when i open the overlay, if i'm just playing a game everything is fine until i open the overlay and chat to somebody, when i close it it goes back to normal which doesn't sound like a huge issue, but when i'm listening to some music it gets annoying really quick,

i changed many audio settings to see if it would make a difference but nothing seems to fix it, since it happened when steam updated the ui i guess i just have to wait for them to fix it, but since it seems to be a rare issue i doubt that it'l happen anytime soon.

[Numbox]

Having this issue as well. But it happens with other "overlay" apps as well, not just Steam it seems.

[Oles3n]

Bro which soundcard are you using?

[Zidake]

*bump*
no solution yet?

[Zidake]

Found a solution. I simply disabled the GPU acceleration in the Steam settings (Settings -> Overlay). Works fine for me. Hope this helps.

[Ίμπις]

Originally posted by Zidake:

Found a solution. I simply disabled the GPU acceleration in the Steam settings (Settings -> Overlay). Works fine for me. Hope this helps.

Thanks for this, this pointed me in the right direction and enabled me to remove some symptoms of the specific issue I am experiencing! However, your advice is only half correct for the current Steam version.

I realise your comment is over a year old, so potentially it has been outdated by Steam updates, however I wanted to update this thread with the current location and specific setting (December 2024), in case anybody is still having this problem. See below:

1. Click 'Steam' in top left of application.
2. Click 'Settings' from drop-down list.
3. Click 'Interface' (from list on left-hand side of pop-up window).
4. Scroll down to 'Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views' - disable this setting.

You will then be prompted to restart Steam. Do so. The overlay audio crackling issue should be removed.

In addition to this, the issue I was experiencing went a step further; I had audio crackling only when the overlay was open/displaying on my screen (following above steps fixed this). However, the crackling was constant (regardless of whether the overlay was open/displaying or not) when I enabled the Steam in-game recording tool. The above steps only fixed the former, not the latter for me.

[bronco]

I have this same problem and it is not consistent when using the Steam overlay right now (recent windows reinstall). Before the reinstall, the audio issue always went away when disabling the steam overlay. So I am waiting to try disabling the GPU rendering option.

Does anyone else also have the same audio issue when using the Discord overlay or Discord screen share options? The Steam overlay only causes this same audio issue, the Discord items disable the audio and cause consistent video and input stutters that are about .25-.5 seconds long.

[Lilibet]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.