A fresh Steam Beta Client finally fixes Unreal Engine screenshots on Linux

By Liam Dawe - 26 April 2018 at 8:43 am UTC | Views: 10,080

Nothing huge here, but it's nice that Valve have finally fixed another issue that plagued Linux users for some time.

For those who don't know, Steam has a built-in screenshot tool (Hit F12 while in-game) and you can then upload them to Steam directly for others to see. The problem is that UE4 games would just give a completely black shot and it's been a bug since as far back as 2014 (possibly even earlier) so it's good to see it squashed.

Here's the full changelog:

Steam Overlay

Fixed screenshots for titles using Unreal Engine 4 in OpenGL mode
Fixed OpenGL API errors for applications using Core contexts

In-Home Streaming

Fixed black/green output for titles using Unreal Engine 4 in OpenGL mode
Fixed upside-down output for some OpenGL titles

That said, Valve still need to solve this bug in relation to their screenshot tool not working a lot of the time for Linux users, but it's likely quite a low priority.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Steam, Unreal Engine

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riusma Jun 17, 2018

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Quoting: riusmaWould be interesting to know if it also fix screenshots for SOMA (non-UE4 game affected by which seems to be the same bug)! :)

Screenshots (via Steam) are now fixed in SOMA (so it was a bug similar to the one affecting UE4 on Steam)! :)

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