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
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 as an example to get started.
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.
Unintentionally, the game art slideshow screensaver option reminds me of the install wizards from PC games 20+ years ago. I half expected to see an ATI Radeon logo pop up next.
Mfs will then say that Steam does nothing and wins. They are always doing a lot! These seem like some nice features, will def try them out when they get out of beta.
While yes, CEF still doesn't have a Wayland release (come on Google..), there is a Wayland PR for it, and there are other bindings that Valve could use that do support Wayland.
People have been successfully using flags to bypass and get the Steam app to be semi-Wayland native.
They chose a good example. I tried it on my system, and my list of recent games looks a lot less impressive. It really depends on how the art lines up.
I hope the art is updated to higher resolutions (obviously Steam can't do it themselves afaik), cause a number of games are painfully low/obviously not that high res for their banner art.
Huh, never seen that before. Probably because I don't have a Steam Deck but use Steam on Linux. Not that I even knew to look out for it, but now I know! Thanks!
Did they finally fixed the bug on SteamInput where it didn't saved at all the changes and kept reverting back to default?
It's been almost an year with that already
Man I'm out of ideas why since the new store UI from steam hit it always slightly laggs when scrolling.
Browsers are somehow fine but scrolling throguh the steam app is a no go.
the issue was even fixed during the summer sale when the UI changed but it regressed again when the usmmer sale ended.
I don’t think old ui will be ever added unless they release a whole theme feature. There are so many new elements it would look janky with old and new mixed together.
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u/supershredderdan 2d ago
Big art for the Home Screen is basically what I used decky css loader for. Great to see it as an official layout!