Steam Client Beta Group

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

Homescreen - Big Picture Mode

• Added a new 'Big Art Mode' option for the home screen. This can be enabled in Settings > Home.

• Added Personal Calendar to the Recommended tab on the home screen

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Screensaver - Big Picture Mode

• Added a new screensaver feature, accessible in Settings > Customization. There are two screensavers available:

  • The default is a game art slideshow that can be configured to show artwork from recently played games and your recent in-game screenshots.

  • A retro inspired bouncing logo screensaver

• Big Picture mode can also load custom screensavers. Similar to startup movies, they can be placed in the config\\uioverrides\\screensavers directory in your Steam install directory (e.g. C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam or ~/.steam/root). You can use the bouncing logo screensaver (in the steamui\\screensavers directory) as an example to get started.

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General

• Improved Steam Client startup performance

• Fixed a case where after server maintenance some users might fail to auto-reconnect to Steam

• Fixed bug where being prompted to refresh credentials more than once could trigger an immediate restart

• On Windows, using the systray menu to exit while the Steam window is minimized will no longer flash the window visible briefly

• Dialogs that appear for serious error conditions now stay above the main window

Game Recording

• Fixed some cases where playback would jump to an unexpected point in the timeline when reaching the end of a play session or clip

• Decreased performance impact of game recording for some D3D12 games on Windows

In-Game Overlay

• Fixed frame rate hitches in D3D11 and D3D12 games when taking screenshots on Windows

• Fixed rendering the overlay and using other overlay related features (screenshots, game recording, etc.) in Vulkan games that create multiple windows.

Big Picture Mode

• Added explicit warning text to power menu confirmation dialogs when proceeding will shut down an active game

• Updated default artwork when an app does not have library or hero artwork

• Reorganized the idle timer settings when on battery and AC power

Steam Input

• Improved CPU performance at runtime and in configuration loading

• Added information about which configurations are compatible in the configurator browser when using a game that requires Steam Input API

• Fixed the controller support widget showing "This game doesn't support controllers" for unreleased games that don't have controller support information yet

• Fixed controllers not using the desktop configuration on the desktop UI login window

• Added the missing settings for adjusting emulated joystick adaptive centering on trackpad

Linux

• Improved download speeds on high latency connections.

• The "Select compatibility tool" dropdown is now always visible.

  • The recommended compatibility tool, or steam runtime for native games, now shows at the top of the list as the "Default" option.

  • Compatibility tool aliases, e.g. "Proton Stable", can now be selected from this dropdown.

• The SteamOS compatibility dialogs will now show in desktopUI when installing games not verified for that HW

• On Desktop Linux we will now show the SteamOS unsupported dialog when installing games that are known to not work with Proton

• Improve distro information collection for hardware survey, preferring data from /etc/os-release.

SteamRT3 Experimental Beta

• Fixed "Add a Non-Steam Game" showing an invalid list of applications.

• Fixed the "Run Steam when my computer starts" toggle.

Remote Play

• A PIN is no longer required to download an app to a remote device. A PIN is still required to Install and Stream from a remote device.

• Adding Download Complete notification for a remote download if you initiated the download on your current device.