Steam Client update fixes Vulkan games hanging

22 Oct 2026 at 7:06 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

An annoying bug I've run into a few times recently has been solved - Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab should be fixed with this new Steam Client update.

Released October 21st, it's a small update overall but an important one, especially with the updated certificate revocation lists. If you missed the news recently, 8 compromised TLS certs were discovered and announced by eMudhra. What's the issue? As they said: "An attacker with the private key of any of the compromised intermediate CAs could impersonate any website or service" - oh dear.

All the Steam changes are below.

Key Changes

General

• Fixed some cases the Steam Service Error dialog was showing incorrectly if you quit/restarted Steam quickly.
• Fixed an error displaying dates for users in British Columbia.
• Updated certificate revocation lists.

Remote Play

• Fixed a memory leak using NVENC to stream H.264 using unlimited bandwidth from Windows computers.

Linux

• Fixed Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab.
• Fixed a case where Steam updater UI would fail to show for some users.

MacOS

• Fixed client crash when opening some browser windows.

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