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Jul 19, 2024

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 19th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

Fixed formatting of links in news posts
Fixed a beta client only issue where a game may freeze while trying to set an achievement. This could affect games such as Elden Ring and Dark Souls.

Game Recording

Improved the display of background recordings in the Post Game Summary on library game pages, especially for footage recorded at 21:9 or wider aspect ratios.

Desktop Mode

Timer UI updated to use icons for buttons so that it works better across all languages.
Timer no longer has a Clear button since the new UI doesn't need it.

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Jul 16, 2024

Steam Deck Client Update: July 16th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable channel.

General

Fixed an issue where demos would not show a play button after changing accounts.

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Jul 16, 2024

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 16th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

Improvements to keyboard event tracking and audio latency in updated SDL build
Improved timeout logic when establishing initial connection from UI layer to steam client's API layer
Improved client startup performance
Fixed controller input no longer going to game after resuming from sleep if a wake movie is set.
Fixed broken thumbnail for screenshots from non-steam game shortcuts uploaded to steam, when viewed from another computer
Fixed a case that game server / server browser lists would re-fetch when only re-ping on existing list was requested
Fixed a crash that could occur at exit while cleaning up websockets
Fixed some games with achievements showing as "No Achievements" when sorting grids or shelves by achievement percentage.
Fixed certain apps disappearing from Recent Games after a client restart.

Game Recording

Improved thumbnail smoothness when mouse tracking across different highlights / regions on the timeline
Added a max framerate setting. Currently supports 30 or 60 fps.
Fixed issue preventing default .mp4 file extension from being applied to user saved files if the user did not type an extension along with the filename
Fixed a bug causing the live timeline edge to deviate from the actual live edge of the current recording
Fixed a bug that caused clips to lose their thumbnails when sent from one computer to another.
Fixed game timeline markers not being downloaded in rare cases.

Desktop Mode

Fixed Ctrl-F not focusing search box in library

Clock and Timer

New Clock app in the Steam Overlay that can optionally be pinned on top of games.
Improved Timer UI.

Big Picture

Add warnings to game recording overlay page when broadcasting / remote playing

Remote Play

Simplify encoding options to a hardware encoding enable checkbox

Steam Input

Fixed for SIAPI GetMotionData not returning any information on every controller but the first one plugged in.
Fix for Okami HD Brush and Fishing Rod game actions

Note: This beta was re-released with additional changes:

Fixed save file dialog in overlay sometimes replacing part of the file name with the file extension.
Fixed an issue where demos would not show a play button after changing accounts.

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Jul 10, 2024

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 10th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

Fixed a bug that could cause some local screenshots not to appear in the media manager, if the user had few screenshots saved to steam
Fixed a bug that could delete a workshop file if the file had failed a file validation check and had been reacquired
Fixed a bug that could leave some local screenshots undeleted after attempting to delete multiple at one time

Game Recording

Improvements to UI behaviors when finalizing the beginning and end of a clip
No longer warp the play head to the beginning/end of a clip when setting the beginning/end of a clip via the UI buttons
Fixed a bug where using the hotkey to add a user marker would drop the marker at the wrong location
Increased the minimum background recording time to 15 minutes, to give the user time to edit recent clips before the recorded video ages out
Added a warning to the user if game recording has been turned off to prioritize broadcasting
Ignore user marker shortcut key if game recording is disabled
Added the ability to save a specific frame of a video as a steam screenshot
Improved default naming of clip files to improve readability and sortability. Steam will also scan game state descriptions to apply to default clip filename, if available
Fixed an exception thrown if the user canceled a clip save in the file picker dialog
Updated message displayed when there is no recent other session where the user can send a clip

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Jul 2, 2024

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 2nd

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

Game Recording

Fixed bug that prevented creating clips from working on exFAT filesystems.
Fixed a couple of cases that could cause an empty entry to appear in the Post-Game Summary on a game's library page, instead of a background recording highlight.

Desktop Mode

Fixed collection names not being editable.

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