New UI entirely broken for me

[adrastia9]

Pages go black randomly and I can't search for anything. I had to log into Firefox in order to even get here because I can't get into the community at all. The small tabs at the top no longer work and the larger tabs below it are semi-functional with the aforementioned black page problem.

I was able to launch games without an issue. I'll probably download a random demo later so see if the store still works correctly for me. But the Steam browser itself is just not working right at all for me. Maybe it's my very outdated hardware. But that's not a fixable issue right now. I'm curious if anyone using modern hardware is having similar problems.

[ReBoot]

Toggle the HW acceleration setting for web views (and restart Steam).

[AustrAlien2010]

Somehow that setting was enabled automatically after updating, even if you had it disabled.

You may be able locate that setting, if you to go to Steam: View: Settings: Interface. And disable it from there.

[adrastia9]

How do I get to settings if the tabs to get to them do not work for me at all? Is there a workaround for that?

[SomeGuy712x]

Ugh, I'm having super bad flickering and unresponsive lagginess with this new update too. I hope I can somehow manage to get to the HW acceleration setting that ReBoot mentioned and disable it.

EDIT: Nope, absolutely nothing was remotely functional for me with the new UI. However, in another thread, someone mentioned adding -vgui to the end of the shortcut (so that the shortcut leads to: "C:\<path_to_steam>\steam.exe" -vgui), and I tried that, and returned to the previous UI, which is properly functional for me.

[adrastia9]

I tried big picture mode but it doesn't have those settings. I thought it would work. There has to be some way.

Editing to add this:
I just found a workaround of sorts here: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/6516193260168441850/

You just create a shortcut like this on your desktop: "C:\<path_to_steam>\steam.exe" -vgui

You can access the old UI. Dunno how long it will work. But you'll be able to access the settings that way and things should run smoothly.

[AustrAlien2010]

I found something that you can do if you cannot change the Hardware Acceleration settings in Steam for some unknown reason.


What you could do:

Shut Steam down.

Open Regedit.
(Press Windows-key + R, and type 'regedit' in the textfield.)

Navigate to the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER >> Software >> Valve >> Steam

And look for:

GPUAccellWebViews
GPUAccellWebViewsV2
GPUAccellWebViewsV3

It will show REG_DWORD: 0x00000000 (1), if the hardware acceleration is on.
It will show REG_DWORD: 0x00000000 (0), if the hardware acceleration is off.


You can manually change these values to disable or enable hardware acceleration.



Remember that making changes to your registry is not without risk. Do this at your own risk.