Can Steam please do something about the notifications bug? It's super annoying and has been a problem for a very long time.

[darthokkata]

Notifications while playing a game often don't go away. They just stay in the corner, often covering important hud information.

It's super frustrating and the only way to make them go away is to shut down the game and restart, and it happens frequently.

It's not just achievement notifications either, though that is frequently when it occurs. I've had it happen with the controller notification when steam recognizes a gamepad. This has occurred with both the Steam Controller and PS4 controller. The little blue notification pops up and just stays there.

Fix this already, I've seen complaints about this bug going back as far as 2013.

[Xpliciit]

Presumably this for a certain game and should be posted in that games forum.

It's not something I have ever come across so maybe a simple verify cache would work on the game in question.

Right click game > properties > local files > verify integrity of game cache

[PsydeFX]

Someone pointed this out in Gabe's AMA and he said that it's something they'll consider

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5ooglq/all_ama_q_with_answers/

[darthokkata]

Originally posted by Xpliciit:

Presumably this for a certain game and should be posted in that games forum.

It's not something I have ever come across so maybe a simple verify cache would work on the game in question.

Right click game > properties > local files > verify integrity of game cache

You presume incorrectly. This happens in all games, recently it's happened to me in The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth, DOOM, Just Cause 3, GTA V, Deathspank ToV, Bioshock Remastered, and Skyrim.

That's just recently, I've had it happen in lots of other games as well over the past few years. This is a Steam issue, not a game issue.

This has been going on for a while now, and games started in Big Picture Mode are particularly prone to it, but I've had it happen with games launched from the regular Steam client as well.

I am not the only one who has this issue. There are complaints about it going back as far as 2013.

It doesn't happen every time there's a notification, more often than not notices go away the way they're supposed too, but it does happen frequently enough that it's an issue and it needs to be fixed.

[Washell]

Try deleting everything in your steam folder except steam.exe, \userdata and \steamapps. That will force a reinstall of steam without losing all your games and probably fix this issue.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by darthokkata:

You presume incorrectly. This happens in all games, recently it's happened to me in The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth, DOOM, Just Cause 3, GTA V, Deathspank ToV, Bioshock Remastered, and Skyrim.

There's somethign wrong with your drivers then. the overlay and notifications don't stay on top by default.

The only time there's an issue where a game may have non-rendered 'black bars' down the top and bottom where the notifications may stay simply because the game isn't refreshing the rendering of the screen in the black bar areas.

Your symptoms are non-standard. It would seem like you have an issue with either your steam install or possibly your video drivers are corrupted causing issues with normal overlay API calls.

Fix this already, I've seen complaints about this bug going back as far as 2013.

There is no way you have data to support this. The only 'bug' is a feature request to not have notifications pop up at all. No reports have ever surfaced of notifications not disappearing after the normal 2-3 seconds after they pop.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by PsydeFX:

Someone pointed this out in Gabe's AMA and he said that it's something they'll consider

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5ooglq/all_ama_q_with_answers/

That is the option to disable popups entirely

The OP is talking about notifications that don't go away at all

This behavior is not normal

[darthokkata]

Originally posted by Washell:

Try deleting everything in your steam folder except steam.exe, \userdata and \steamapps. That will force a reinstall of steam without losing all your games and probably fix this issue.

Nope. I've done that several times since this started happening. Like I said, it's not a new thing that just started happening. This has been going on for a few years now.

It comes and goes, but reinstalling doesn't fix it. It won't happen for a month or two, then it'll happen several times in a short period of time. Sometimes a few times in one day, and it'll happen on and off for a month, and then it will be fine for a month or two before it pops back up again. Restarting Steam does not clear it up.

It's not super fequent to be honest. Most of the time the pop up does go away as it should. Still, not being able to see how much ammo I have or some other hud element and having to save, back out of the game, and restart to clear off the clutter in the way is a pain.

My drivers are always up to date and the timing of this doesn't seem tied to that either. This has been happening across a few years worth of regular driver updates.

I've cleaned out my drivers several times. I always use DUU to remove drivers completely when I update them because not doing so has caused issues in the past that aren't related to this. That hasn't been a problem since I started doing that a couple of years ago.

The game doesn't lock up or suffer performance wise. The notification for an achievement or that the Steam Controller or PS4 controller has hooked just gets stuck and stays there.

Backing out to the Steam Client doesn't suggest anything is wrong with Steam itself. Everything works, I can move through menus and do things, but the notification is still stuck in the corner when I return to the game.

Only shutting down the game and restarting it makes the notification go away, and it's not happening in any particular game.

Honestly, I'm all for being able to disable pop ups in game. That would effectively fix my problem.

[Fallton]

Originally posted by darthokkata:

Notifications while playing a game often don't go away. They just stay in the corner, often covering important hud information.

It's super frustrating and the only way to make them go away is to shut down the game and restart, and it happens frequently.

It's not just achievement notifications either, though that is frequently when it occurs. I've had it happen with the controller notification when steam recognizes a gamepad. This has occurred with both the Steam Controller and PS4 controller. The little blue notification pops up and just stays there.

Fix this already, I've seen complaints about this bug going back as far as 2013.

A year later and this problem still exists. I’m having the same issue with all of my games. I have this same issue no matter which of my computers I use. But it seems to happen only when I’m using any controller. I’ve tried turning of the Steam Overlay on both of my PCs and that didn’t help because I couldn’t even use my controllers or any letters on my keyboards when in a game. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling steam on both but it still happens.

My main PC runs AMD processor and AMD video card. My secondary runs on Intel with Nvidia graphics. Both PCs have fully updated drivers and the AMD runs Windows 10 and the Intel runs Windows 7. Since this happens on both of my PCs and I can confirm that it at least has something to do with the overlay.

Anyone else having this issue while using any controllers while using Steam’s Overlay?

[darthokkata]

It still happens to me, but not nearly as frequently as it used too.

Still annoying, but less of a problem on my end these days.

[Yogurt]

Happened to me today... When I was streaming. When a notification came up saying "Broadcasting changed encoding to Best Performance", it would NOT go away. I had 2 of these up and some other notification blocking more, I don't remember what the other was. They weren't completely stuck either. It wasn't like a graphical issue. They actually did move up and then back down when I received a message from a friend. But they still would not go away. It's been a huge annoyance in Boi Afterbirth+ because I cannot see my pills or cards.

[Longhaul]

Have never had this happen... at all in the whole time i have been playing here.

[ElitOnTheRocks]

Happened to me 4 times last night and once already this morning in two different games. It does seem to be linked to using a controler, wired xbox one controler for me.

[instyne]

I had this happen a few days ago while playing Fallout 4, just before the latest F4 update, it stayed up for about 5 minutes. This happened while I was in the " Minutemen take NukaWorld battle, a modified Open Season quest. No fun at all.

[pdonettes]

Still a problem for me also. It’s so frustrating. It seems to hapoen most frequently in games that I don;t use a controller for, such as Kerbal space program and Civ 5. I just did this search because I am sick of having to restart, and there is no other way to make it go away. Is there still nothing that can be done?

[Mr.TomB]

Pls Devs get your shizzle fixed PLs ty cant even watch my friends stream without the performance change popup ruining her game because the popup blocks important game imformation TY