- Steam App
- Texplore (4197100)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 19 April 2026 - 14:53:47 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
🎮 Fixed Steam Deck crash at 20% loading (both new games and saved runs) Huge thanks to the community member who helped us track this one down! After a lot of back-and-forth troubleshooting, a player noticed the screen would briefly flicker or black out right at the 20% loading mark — right before the crash. That observation turned out to be the key to finding the real cause. What was actually going wrong: The game has an options menu (for resolution, display mode, vsync, etc.) that gets quietly loaded in the background both on the main menu AND in the in-game pause menu. Every time this options menu was created — even while hidden — it would re-apply your display settings, which tells your monitor/compositor to reshuffle the window mode. On most hardware, this caused a brief, mostly-harmless screen flicker you might not even notice. But on Steam Deck, doing this in the middle of a scene ...