voice chat blacked out

[TAKM]

Hey guys,So when I join voice chat in a group channel the window turns black and overlays / draws over other windows and can't be moved. I've had multiple others on my friends list with a range of hardware and software configs reproduce the issue and yet there's little to nothing to be found about it via google. Have restarted steam ofc, restarted the PC, cleared steam browser cache, opted in and out of beta, and reinstalled steam, all to no avail. Worth noting that we created a new (test) group chat thinking maybe this one is just bugged but it happened with that one as well. Its not a huge issue at the end of the day as I have a workaround but it's not pretty and the ♥♥♥♥♥ still broke - more annoying than anything is it being consistently reproducible by everyone I've asked to join comms yet there's no chatter at all about it! Any help appreciated.

[kos]

same problem here, https://ibb.co/ySR9L4G

[Zee_]

My friends and I started having this happen to us tonight as well.

For us it is guaranteed for the chat window to go to black whenever we start or join a voice chat channel. It should be noted that the voice chat works, but you can't see anything in the window once you start/join a voice channel.

I found we can get the window to come back if we close Steam Chat via the taskbar or task manager then click the button to leave the voice channel. But of course that only let's us see who's in chat and use text, the second we rejoin a voice channel the chat window will go black again.

It started happening to all of us around the same time yesterday evening (around 6pm est), so I'm gonna go and say it's something on Valve's end. There's just too many variables for it to be anything else since we all live in different parts of the country, have different ISPs and different builds.

I also tried all the usual fixes (cleared cache, opted into beta, opted back out when that didn't work, etc. etc.) and they just aren't working this time around (they have in the past when this bug would show up). Which once again leads me to think it's on Steam's end.

[Atheos]

same

[ghostlyInferno]

please help
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[cutfrom]

Same here

[76561198377214084]

same here thats why ive never been in a groupcall with my friends

[яна]

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[[HD] Mega Man Expert]

Not sure if this would help anyone but it happened recently to me when I join voice calls in group chats. Group chat goes black, have to leave the voice chat, refresh steam and it would come back until I joined chat.

Found that if I go to my friends list settings (Gear Icon) -> Chat tab -> set "Disable animated room effects" to "On". Then leave voice chat, and close the Steam Client WebHelper browser via task manger (Exiting and restarting steam works too). Then you should rejoin the voice chat room without any more black window in the text chat and window.

Hopefully this helps as it helped my two other friends who got the dreaded black chat window.

[TAKM]

HD Mega Man Expert eredeti hozzászólása:

Not sure if this would help anyone but it happened recently to me when I join voice calls in group chats. Group chat goes black, have to leave the voice chat, refresh steam and it would come back until I joined chat.

Found that if I go to my friends list settings (Gear Icon) -> Chat tab -> set "Disable animated room effects" to "On". Then leave voice chat, and close the Steam Client WebHelper browser via task manger (Exiting and restarting steam works too). Then you should rejoin the voice chat room without any more black window in the text chat and window.

Hopefully this helps as it helped my two other friends who got the dreaded black chat window.

Alright so this is kinda weird, I looked at that setting and it was already set to on so I switched it off. that caused the window to black out but it showed an error code that read
Error Reference: Chat_7075780_bb4d61253a913bfe
Cannot read property 'display_name' of undefined
I restarted steam and it's all working normally now so thanks.

[Zee_]

HD Mega Man Expert eredeti hozzászólása:

Not sure if this would help anyone but it happened recently to me when I join voice calls in group chats. Group chat goes black, have to leave the voice chat, refresh steam and it would come back until I joined chat.

Found that if I go to my friends list settings (Gear Icon) -> Chat tab -> set "Disable animated room effects" to "On". Then leave voice chat, and close the Steam Client WebHelper browser via task manger (Exiting and restarting steam works too). Then you should rejoin the voice chat room without any more black window in the text chat and window.

Hopefully this helps as it helped my two other friends who got the dreaded black chat window.

I haven't changed anything on my end since my previous post in this thread but chat is working fine for me tonight. No clue what changed in the last 18 hours, but meh, I'm not gonna question it.

One of my friends still has a blacked out chat window when using voip though. I'll pass this suggestion along and see if that fixes it for him.