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Oct 4, 2024

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: October 4th

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

General

Fixed Steam not being able to connect to SteamVR with error "SteamVR Failed to initialize: VR API not loaded (101)"

Game Recording

Fixed a regression from October 2nd's beta client which was causing some recordings to incorrectly fall back to using the CPU to encode video while playing a game, resulting in an increase in CPU usage.
Fixed an issue causing exporting a clip to file, clipboard or chat to fail or sometimes crash.
Fixes some cases where the clip export dialog did not appear.

Steam Input

Fixed a regression from the October 1st Beta Update which caused per-controller preferences to not get loaded in some cases.

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Oct 3, 2024

SteamOS 3.6.17 Beta: End of the End of the Line

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

Wireless

Fixed a problem where Steam Deck would be unable to connect to certain Wi-Fi 7 access points

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Oct 2, 2024

SteamOS 3.6.16 Beta: End of the Line

Fixed a system crash when hotplugging a second display in Desktop mode

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Oct 2, 2024

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: October 2nd

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

General

Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 126.0.6478.183
Fixed games stored on an external drive still showing as available when the drive is removed.
Fixed some miscellaneous common crashes.
Make the enter action on the login password entry attempt to login rather than requiring navigation to the "submit" button.
Detecting and passing commands to an already running Steam client is significantly faster.
Improve compatibility for native titles that have not been reviewed yet by launching them in the same runtime environment as reviewed titles.

Game Recording

Added video previews to the Background Recording items in the media manager when hovering them with a mouse or focusing them in BPM.
Added video previews to the Background Recording items in the app details page's screenshot section when hovering them with a mouse or focusing them in BPM.
Added a setting to record microphone input alongside gameplay audio.
In per-game settings, add the ability to record a specified game indefinitely with no specified time limit.
Integrated the list of games where recording is disabled into the per-game settings.

Steam Input

Fixed crash occurring when querying community controller configurations in the configurator.

Note: This update was re-released October 3rd with the following additional change:

Fixed regression in beta that prevented game recording and remote play from using the GPU encoder.

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Sep 23, 2024

SteamOS 3.6.15 Beta: Zoomer Edition

Fixed a crash when using the magnifier tool while game recording is active

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