ok so its been going on for about a month now and i just want it gone finally, basically whenever playing any source game under its linux release which is steam linux runtime or native (not forcing steam play AND NO PROTON) if i just play minding my own business and take a screenshot the game freezes for like 2 secs then goes back to normal with the fps counter going from under 10 to normal over 60 again and its been going like this ever since the scream fortress 2 update released (somewhere around that) which only happens to linux releases of the games as launching in proton experimental or GE doesn’t have this issue

HOWEVER some games don’t run under proton for various reasons which forces you to run the native release, or maybe you just prefer it but either way native linux version having this issue makes gameplay with it unbearable especially in games that require constant interaction + screenshots or you just like takin em and ive been looking to this day for anyone to help me…

the games that have this me issue are: Team fortress2 that can’t be played under proton = yes Left 4 dead = yes but can be ran under proton garrys mod = ? was broken on native and could still be counter strike source = yes but not as sewere (doesnt stutter that long) and mostly just source games under native in general for now can’t confirm other so at least hotline miami 1 doesn’t do it under native

to make it clear once again SOURCE GAMES UNDER NATIVE LINUX VER keep stuttering whenever i take or upload a screenshot to the steam cloud or just save it locally by taking it with the screenshot key or command

and it ISN’T HAPPENING TO ANY SINGLE ONE OF MY PROTON GAMES… i already fully reinstalled steam from scratch and did the same to my distro which both didn’t help, also steam linux runtime is displaying as scout 1.0 for some reason which didnt happen before this issue

HARDWARE PROBE FOR SPECS LOGS ETC: before and after reinstalling both steam and distro from the start

before: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=fd52faa27e after: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=088efe59ae

TL;DR shortified version of this post: any native linux source game takes a 2 sec freeze which i assume has something to do with steam caching the screenshots since it happens on either taking a screenshot or uploading one to the steam cloud with every single one slapping you with a freeze, this doesn’t happen to proton games so its a native release issue only and also steam linux runtime showing as steam linux runtime 1.0 scout when it was showing without the 1.0 scout part before this issue in the steam play menu