Opening Dota 2 results in Steam showing a bunch of messages, then becoming unresponsive on Ubuntu 24.04

[tgabore]

Whenever I open Dota 2, Steam shows a bunch of random messages(e.g. Remote Play not working, Gampad driver Installing, System Information log) and sometimes even a Steam shutting down dialog, then the UI becomes greyed out, but can be Stopped by ending the Steam process.

Them game still runs without a problem.

The problem appeared after the Dec 3. patch, without other software or hardware changes.

My specs are Ryzen 2600, 16 gb ram and a Radeon 590.

[TTimo]

Hello,

Please make sure you are not using Ubuntu's snap repackaging of the Steam client before reporting issues. If you are, please uninstall and follow the official installation instructions: https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/

If you are experiencing this with an official install of the steam client, please provide logs - see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/blob/master/issue_template.md for details.

[staticf0x]

I can confirm it's not snap, same issue happens on Fedora, steam installed from rpm.

[tgabore]

I'm pretty sure I've solved it. According to the logs, it was gameoverlayui.so crashing, so I opened a game that didn't crash(Half-Life), closed all open tabs and then went through the Game Recording tutorial, then turning it off.

Haven't had a crash since.

The crash ended up getting triggered by other games, but not older and 2D titles. It just happened that DotA triggered it almost every time and the games I've had installed just didn't trigger it, so I assumed it was DotA, but the problem is with the steam overlay and game recording.

[staticf0x]

I have the Game Recording turned off, but it still happens anyway.