PC crash when i open steam chat

[Lushi]

Hello,i have experienced this a lot of times and it keeps getting annoying. Especially in RP moments.

When im opening steam chat by Shift + Tab my gmod just freezes and the sound is bugged(i hear the last sound constantly) and then my screen just goes black. I cant even turn the PC off by pressing the button on the system block so i just have to unplug it.

Had anyone experienced it? It gets annoying,it happened to me like 3 times in RP when i was raiding/getting raided. And it often resulted in my friends getting stuck inside my property.

Pls help

 

[chopperr]

Go into the Steam settings -> In Game -> Overlay Shortcut keys, then change the keybind.

If that doesn't work, just disable it and alt tab to the steam chat app itself and respond there

 

[omega]

I had a similar thing but it instead happened when I attempted to tab out, changing my display thing from fullscreen to borderless fixed it for me

 

[Lushi]

I had a similar thing but it instead happened when I attempted to tab out, changing my display thing from fullscreen to borderless fixed it for me

when i changed it to borderless my pc turned off

edit: nvm i pressed the turn off button with my leg

 

[Ailohas]

I hade this problem, my solution was to update my graphics drivers and it hasnt crashed so far.

 

[chopperr]

when i changed it to borderless my pc turned off

right click gmod in steam > properties > launch options > put this in "-windowed -noborder" without the "

 

[24k3]

Hello,i have experienced this a lot of times and it keeps getting annoying. Especially in RP moments.

When im opening steam chat by Shift + Tab my gmod just freezes and the sound is bugged(i hear the last sound constantly) and then my screen just goes black. I cant even turn the PC off by pressing the button on the system block so i just have to unplug it.

Had anyone experienced it? It gets annoying,it happened to me like 3 times in RP when i was raiding/getting raided. And it often resulted in my friends getting stuck inside my property.

Pls help

me and @6tens have the same issue pls help

 

[Ailohas]

I hade this problem, my solution was to update my graphics drivers and it hasnt crashed so far.

I was mistaken. My best guess is that maybe its a bug?

 

[Bertie]

@Lushi a few things you could try is

- Make sure your gmod is running in windowed borderless either in launch options or in game as @omega said

- try tabbing out in game and turning off and on steam overlay

- updating graphics drivers

- possibly another overlay conflicting with steam overlay (if it happens in other games other than gmod)

- make sure you’re running gmod on the chromium branch

- lastly try verifying integrity of files

If none work I have no idea hopefully one does work for you

 

[Exana]

Try disabling these two options in your steam settings

 

[MILKY]

1. disable steam overlay (most common fix)

• right click gmod in steam > properties
• uncheck “enable steam overlay while in-game”
• launch and test again

2. check your steam beta settings

• open steam > settings > interface
• look for “Beta Participation”
• set it to “None – Opt out of all beta programs”
• restart steam
  (also check gmod betas too)
• right click gmod > properties > betas
• make sure it’s set to “none” unless you're intentionally using a specific one

3. update your gpu drivers

• go to nvidia / amd / intel’s site
• get the latest drivers for your graphics card
• install + restart

4. verify gmod game files

• steam > right click gmod > properties > installed files > verify integrity
• this checks for any broken files

5. disable other overlays (discord, geforce, etc)

• stuff like discord overlay or shadowplay can mess with gmod
• try turning them off while playing

6. launch options for gmod
try using these in gmod’s launch options: -windowed -noborder -novid -nojoy

7. install / update directx + visual c++ runtimes

• DirectX End-User Runtime
• Visual C++ Redistributables (2015–2022)
  
  
  Hope it works out

 

[Ailohas]

From my understanding multiple people are suffering from this issue so frankly it might not be a system or file error but more of a bug in garry's mod

 

[Lushi]

Go into the Steam settings -> In Game -> Overlay Shortcut keys, then change the keybind.

If that doesn't work, just disable it and alt tab to the steam chat app itself and respond there

forgot to mark as solution but this helped

 

[JRW]

just stop metagaming

 

[WATER BEAN]

wha

Go into the Steam settings -> In Game -> Overlay Shortcut keys, then change the keybind.

If that doesn't work, just disable it and alt tab to the steam chat app itself and respond there

what key because i tried diffrent and it still does it Shift+caps

shift+tab
shift+z
and it happpends everytime