Steam's beta overlay crashed Vulkan games, and Valve's own note records the fix

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 05 Oct, 23:44 UTC

Valve's Steam client beta changelog of October 1 carries a single line about Vulkan: "Fixed crash when Vulkan games recreate their swapchain". Reports of games dying within seconds of launch had been arriving on Valve's own Linux tracker since 08:54 UTC on September 30. Valve posted that note on…