diff --git a/hosts/common/features/gaming/steam.nix b/hosts/common/features/gaming/steam.nix
index df37a33..c0f16ce 100644
--- a/hosts/common/features/gaming/steam.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/features/gaming/steam.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
-_:
+{ pkgs, ... }:
 
 {
   programs.steam = {
     enable = true;
     remotePlay.openFirewall = true;
+
+    # Steam's UI (store/library/Big Picture) is a Chromium/CEF app. On NVIDIA +
+    # Wayland its GPU child process intermittently trips the CEF GPU sandbox and
+    # crashes (cef_log: "GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=8704");
+    # Chromium then permanently falls back to CPU rendering for that session
+    # (--disable-gpu), which turns Big Picture into a slideshow at our 4K/HiDPI
+    # scale. Streaming (NVENC + game load hammering the GPU at once) is a common
+    # trigger. -cef-disable-gpu-sandbox drops the sandbox around *only* Steam's
+    # own UI renderer so the GPU process stops crashing and Big Picture stays
+    # hardware-accelerated. extraArgs bakes it into `exec steam ... "$@"`, so it
+    # applies to every entry point (desktop, CLI, Sunshine's Big Picture tile) —
+    # launch flags only take effect on the invocation that first starts Steam.
+    package = pkgs.steam.override { extraArgs = "-cef-disable-gpu-sandbox"; };
   };
 
   hardware.steam-hardware.enable = true;