Screen flicker on steam overlay

Tyrone Friskie

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Hello all i have ran into this issue recently where i will open up the steam overlay when playing a game and a gray line will flicker across the screen, i have noticed this occurs mainly if not exclusively when using the web browser on the steam overlay. The only other time i have seen this occur was when i was overclocking my GPU and the drivers crashed and "recovered" i went and watched a youtube video on my second monitor and this flickering occured on my main monitor which my graphics card is hooked up to, after restarting that issue went away.



Any tips? Could i have potentially messed up my graphics card when i overclocked it? (i am currently not running any overclock).



I was able to recreate this flicker by opening a youtube video inside the steam overlay and clicking in the same spot of the timeline of the video which causes these horizontal gray flickers to occur on random area's of the screen.

 

Tyrone Friskie

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but it seems odd that after i tried to search for people with similar issues i only found one person that has ever reported a issue of "flickering" on the steam overlay and said something along the line of it affecting AMD cards only.

I just find it odd i would have this insulated issue that only one other person has reported. Unless what im identifying as "flickering" should be identified as something else.

It just kind of worries me that something is wrong and it could cause damage or something