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Has anyone else ran across this? Every time I close a game and try to go back to the home page, I just get a blank, black screen. It's still on, and I can move the mouse cursor and see it, but everything else is basically frozen. No steam menu or system menu will pop up, only the cursor.

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[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes but it depends on the game. Steam will often tell you in the steam deck compatibility area of a particular game, that the game may not close gracefully and that you might have to crash it. It can also happen with non-steam like games installed via Lutris or something from the Epic games library.

There have been a few occasions when I've had to use the power button to reboot in order to recover from a crash.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my Decky plugins was causing this to happen regularly on mine, and not with any specific game

[–] taggart_mccallister@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This was the problem! Updating the plugins fixed it.