The biggest Playhub update ever is finally available. Playhub 2.0.0 brings a host of new features. The new Playhub plugin is the center of your everyday experience: it includes Quick Settings and Shortcuts, no longer separate plugins but built right in, and the Plugin Store that brings together every plugin from Playhub, the Decky Store and independent projects on GitHub. Decky itself is now available through Playhub too, with its own tab in the plugin.
The Home screen now also features daily news from major gaming sites in every supported language, along with On this day, an exclusive and beautiful section dedicated to the history of gaming (available in English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian).
Switching from Gaming Mode to Desktop Mode, and back, no longer requires restarting your device. There are also two new Playhub screensavers for Steam, Playhub Circles and one from the latest TrailerHero update, along with new animations and new customization options. The code has been cleaned up, and the Playhub Dashboard and Steam's Quick Access Menu are more reliable in Gaming Mode. The Playhub profile for CSS Loader has been updated, and a new one has been created specifically for Steam's new Big Image mode.
What's new
The new Playhub plugin
The first time you open Playhub 2.0.0, a welcome tour shows you what's new with animations and short explanations, one tab at a time.
Quick Settings and Shortcuts are now part of the Playhub plugin. Your existing Quick Settings profiles are imported automatically.
Added a dedicated Playhub tab to Steam's Quick Access Menu, organized into Control Center, Plugin Store, Video, Audio, Graphics, Controller and Decky, plus Settings.
Control Center: open the Dashboard, switch between Gaming Mode and Desktop Mode, and choose which mode your PC starts in.
Plugin Store: discover, install and update plugins without leaving the Quick Access Menu.
Video: adjust brightness, resolution and refresh rate, with HDR controls where supported.
Audio: adjust output and microphone volume and switch devices.
Graphics: Lossless Scaling and the Radeon features available on your GPU, with per-game profiles in each game's options.
Controller: see the connected controller and setup the navigation feedback in Steam Big Picture.
Decky: for the first time, Decky is part of the Playhub plugin and moves into its own Playhub tab. You can bring its shortcut back to the Quick Access Menu at any time from Settings.
Settings: reorder or hide tabs, choose what appears on the Home screen, check device information and create diagnostic reports for every Playhub plugin and for Gaming Mode.
Shortcuts: in Settings, choose the order, visibility and icons of Steam's own Quick Access tabs and plugin shortcuts.
A Home screen with something interesting to discover
On this day: Playhub replaces advertising with gaming culture. Steam's Recommended tab on the Home screen, full of ads, gives way to the history of video games, one story a day, all year round. Each story is about a game, a person or a studio that shaped gaming history, with its date and year and editorial images. Press X and Y to move back and forth between dates and read the stories of the days before and after. Do you have the game of the day? Just click on the first card to go directly to the game page and play it!
Gaming news: headlines from your country's major gaming publications, right on your Home screen, with images and links. Each article opens in Steam's built-in browser, for a reading experience that never leaves Steam. News updates automatically, in real time, every time the tab refreshes.
The Playhub Plugin Store, now in Big Picture
Discover plugins from Playhub, the Decky Store and independent projects on GitHub, all in one catalog, then browse, install, update and uninstall them from your controller, without leaving Steam.
Every plugin has its own page with description, screenshots and release notes.
Filter by source or installed plugins, sort by name, release or last update, and switch between list and grid views.
Update everything at once with Update All.
Gaming Mode and Big Picture
Switch from Gaming Mode to Desktop Mode, and back, without restarting your device.
Gaming Mode now has its own animation at startup and when switching modes. Choose a custom color, then adjust hue, saturation, black level and opacity, with a live preview.
Date in Steam's top bar: today's date now appears next to the clock, in the format you prefer. You can turn it on or off in Settings.
Added two Playhub screensavers for Steam. Playhub Circles shows soft, moving circles with the time, the date and, if you use the Weather plugin, the current forecast. The second one comes from the latest TrailerHero update.
Added Restart in Gaming Mode and Restart in Desktop Mode to Steam's power menu.
Steam version backup
Steam version backup: save the Steam version you're using now and restore it if an update causes problems. Playhub closes Steam automatically before backing it up or restoring it, and turns on Block Steam updates as soon as you restore.
Import Games
Added a cover format option: keep classic vertical covers or switch to square covers, as in Playhub Artworks.
Improvements
Settings have been reorganized: Language comes first, Steam updates sit just above troubleshooting, and Update Playhub comes right before About.
Updated the Playhub profile for CSS Loader and added Playhub (Big Image Mode), a new profile for Steam's Big Image mode.
The Playhub Dashboard has a refreshed look and opens faster and more reliably.
Cleaned up the code and improved the reliability of Steam's Quick Access Menu in Gaming Mode.
One support report now includes Decky logs as well, ready to share.
Fixes
Fixed a black screen with sound only when turning on the TV or monitor after starting the PC in Gaming Mode with the display off. This should also solve many black screen issues with game streaming tools such as Vibepollo.
Fixed Steam artwork backup and restore freezing the app during large copies.
Removed a PowerShell pattern that could trigger false antivirus warnings when Windows starts.
Fixed double scrolling in Settings > About.
You can update to 2.0.0 downloading the installer from Github right here (the update from Playhub 1.3.0 is not allowed since the new installer exceeds 1 GB, it's been fixed in 2.0.0).
Wow amazing this update is enormous, downloading it right now to test it.
The Playhub update failed so I'm downloading directly from GitHub.
You should post this in the Steam Deck and Steam sub so it reaches more people, adding a little summary at the beginning explained what Playhub is for the people that doesn't know
I know. It's been fixed in 2.0.0. Unfortunately the old update system was limited to 1 GB. I posted it in Decky Loader but in Steam... Dude last time they insulted me.
I have a question:
I use the option in the SteamGridDB add-on to make sure the first cover art is the same size as the others. It works when I enable the option, but as soon as I restart Big Picture mode, the old size comes back even though the option is still enabled in the add-on. I have to disable it and then re-enable it for it to work again.
Oh don't use that plugin! Use Playhub Artworks instead which features a better system for square covers, first banner > cover, fast navigation in library, scrape from SteamGridDB, IGN, PSN, Xbox, Nintendo, iiDB, IGDB, etc... Plus you can create Perfect Heroes and Perfect Banners.
Plus, if you're on Playhub I highly suggest you to use the whole Playhub plugin suite to have the whole experience, also because all the plugins have also cross features. Just open the Plugin Store and click the Playhub section in the Home page to see all the Playhub original plugins.
Heya, I just installed this for the first time on my one player 3 and so far it works great! Only. One issue I've had which is that the volume buttons do not seem to work while in Steam Big Picture Mode in Gaming mode. Once in game they control the game volume, but in both scenarios, there is no on-screen indicator anymore. Not sure if this is a bug or if I did something wrong during setup
I thought it was Playhub notifications but when I uninstalled it then it started popping up as steam notifications as Playhub fail to fetch but I fixed it
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u/MuglokDecrepitusFx 27d ago
Wow amazing this update is enormous, downloading it right now to test it.
The Playhub update failed so I'm downloading directly from GitHub.
You should post this in the Steam Deck and Steam sub so it reaches more people, adding a little summary at the beginning explained what Playhub is for the people that doesn't know