The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
General
Improved startup performance for users with large libraries that include non-Steam games.
In-Game Overlay
Adjusted Performance Monitor GPU Utilization measurement on Windows+NVIDIA GPUs to closer match some other tools. This will again shift the number to match task manager less, but match some other tools measurements more closely. The percentage you see will not change in many games, but may now show higher utilization in some games. We will update our Performance Monitor FAQ with more detail on the nuances of this measurement after this update gets some testing.
Linux
Fixed system display scale not applying in overlay.
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.
General
Fixed power and clock limits sometimes getting reset after sleep
Fixed a case where WiFi would fail to connect after sleep
Improved battery charge time estimation
Accessibility
Enabled multi-language support for the screen reader. The screen reader will default to the language configured under Settings->General.
The screen reader language may also be manually configured under Settings->Accessibility
Audio
Fixed volume jumping to 100% upon removing 3.5mm headphones
Fixed USB audio devices not being automatically switched to when connected
Removed non-functional "Pro Audio" profile setting in desktop mode, which would disable audio until deselected
Fixed audio glitches in Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Fixed audio distortion with the Steam Deck microphone in game recordings
Non-Deck
Fixed grip buttons after sleep on the original Asus ROG Ally
Improved support for the Lenovo Legion Go when using controllers detached in FPS mode
Added support for updated Legion Go Controller Firmware
We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.
General
Fixed an issue where selection would be lost when navigating back out of app details and other screens.
Added the percentage of the transfer remaining to the Steam Cloud upload/download text in the library.
Desktop Mode
Fixed Steam Deck compatibility and controller compatibility dropdowns in collection filter edit pane not updating if their corresponding filter was removed from the top bar.
Steam Input
Re-enabled rumble for the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller. Users should update the dongle to the latest firmware.
The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
General
Fixed Steam Deck compatibility and controller compatibility dropdowns in collection filter edit pane not updating if their corresponding filter was removed from the top bar.
In-Game Overlay
Fixed mouse input being offset when using the overlay in some games that render with a back buffer sized differently than the window. This impacted a small number of games in specific "fullscreen windowed" rendering modes where you can choose a non-native display resolution rather than common fullscreen, windowed, or borderless windowed modes.
Big Picture Mode
Fixed an issue where selection would be lost when navigating back out of app details and other screens.
Added the percentage of the transfer remaining to the Steam Cloud upload/download text in the library.
Steam Input
Speculative fix for rare crash when using gyro modes.
Re-enabled rumble for the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller. Users should update the dongle to the latest firmware.
With today's update, the Review Score shown to you for some games will be calculated from the reviews written in your language. This is part of our ongoing effort to ensure that Steam User Reviews are helping customers make informed decisions when considering the purchase of a new game. Read on for the details behind this change.
A Better Indication of User Sentiment
We launched Steam User Reviews almost twelve years ago to give customers a way to tell each other what they thought about a game, and whether they recommended it or not. A short time later we introduced the concept of a Review Score, which is a simple categorization based on the percentage of positive reviews. It is basically a signal of how happy the overall community around a game was with their purchase, and a useful tool for potential customers to predict their happiness with that game as well.
Steam's growth since then into an even larger global presence means customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game. There are a variety of reasons this may happen for a particular game, including translation issues, cultural references, poor network connections, and many others; things that the Overall Review Scores haven't been able to capture until now. Calculating a language-specific review score means that we can better distill the sentiment of these different groups of customers, and in doing so, better serve potential customers that belong to those groups.
Language-specific Review Score
When there are enough reviews written in a particular language, Steam will calculate a review score for that language. The Review Score displayed to users will be based on their primary language. What this means is that some languages may show more positive review scores, while others may show more negative ones, for the same game.
This change impacts games that have more than 2,000 publicly visible reviews, and with at least 200 written reviews in at least one language. We purposely made these thresholds higher than the 10 reviews required to calculate the Overall Review Score; this is because we wanted to be pretty confident in the language-specific score before showing it to users.
For games where Steam has generated language-specific review scores, you'll see this on the game's store page:
If you want to dig deeper into what's going on, you can click the "See language breakdown" link to see a more detailed view by language and what Review Score those customers will see.
Maintaining Trust
We realize that whenever we make changes to User Reviews, we're inviting some scrutiny into our motivations for making those changes. Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us, so we've erred on the side of being as transparent as possible. To that end, we've built many features in User Reviews that can be enabled or disabled, letting you access the raw reviews in many different ways.
At the same time, we want User Reviews to be useful to customers from the very start, without them having to twiddle with the many knobs the system has--this is the primary reason why the new language-specific review score system is turned on by default. If you want to go back to seeing the Overall Review Score based on all user reviews, ignoring your language, you can change that setting here in your Store preferences.
Have Feedback?
As always, we learn from your feedback, so please feel free to leave a comment below.
The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
Note: This update was re-released to fix a macOS issue causing some games to launch with the wrong process architecture. It was later re-released to rollback a GPU utilization monitoring change that needs more testing.
General
Fixed scaling of desktop on-screen keyboard when accessibility display scaling is enabled.
Fixed notifications and find-in-page popups intermittently failing to close or focus.
Remote Play
Fixed the guide button bringing Steam to the foreground while streaming from another computer
macOS
Fixed some games not launching properly on Apple Silicon machines.
Linux
Fixed Steam client failing to reload or showing dialogs unexpectedly after a render process crash.
The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
In-Game Overlay
Performance Monitor now supports CPU temperature on Windows and Linux, on Windows this requires a kernel mode driver, and there is an optional to disable if you don't want that. The driver is only installed and running when Performance Monitor is visible at full CPU detail levels and only if you don't disable the drive in the In-Game settings.
Fixed mouse input being offset on macOS when running certain games on high dpi displays.
Fixed game overview window failing to load if there is an issue loading data for popular or favorite guides.
This release includes a variety of bug fixes and quality of life improvements for SteamVR.
We continue to focus on OpenXR as our preferred API for new games and applications. SteamVR’s official OpenXR subforum is here and we’d love to hear your feedback, as well as suggestions for new features.
SteamVR:
Bindings can now have "Controller Offsets" (found in Options) that will apply to controller orientation across all input types (Legacy, SteamVR Input, OpenXR). This is in addition to individual "Pose Offsets" which will apply only to the specific pose you've selected. To add offsets to poses in the Controller Binding UI, click the gear icon next to a pose.
Slight reduction in dashboard startup time.
Fixed an issue with the Binding UI not being able to save bindings.
Minor SteamVR Input speed optimizations.
Made the Controller Binding UI smaller to improve usability in headset.
Added Pico Controller to the list of controller types you can simulate.
Fixed a bug with bindings that caused returnBindingsWith* options to be ignored.
Fix controller SVGs not rendering in the controller test UI.
Fixed some scenarios where the keyboard didn't work in the Binding UI.
Fixed an issue with modified bindings not working while Steam was offline.
Fixed always showing the "multitasking mode" button for all overlays, not just Desktop overlays.
Fixed sometimes showing the "show keyboard" button for overlays that don't support keyboard input.
Fixed initially showing double overlay control bars the moment you float a window in the world.
Fixed the overlay control bar not being visible at all in the Legacy dashboard.
Steam Link:
Slight reduction in startup time for Steam Link VR.
Reduced CPU utilization when streaming with Steam Link.
Fixed some minor performances hitches.
Resolved multiple crashes.
OpenXR:
XR_EXT_dpad_binding now correctly works on all appropriate controller types.
Fixed a bug where certain poses would not show up in the Binding UI when simulating controllers.
Developers:
When a user is using Steam Link, app developers can now retrieve the correct HMD type via Prop_ModelNumber_String, rather than it being misreported as a Quest 2.
OpenXR Developers:
Add support for XR_EXT_render_model and XR_EXT_interaction_render_model.
Return more realistic joint radii in xrLocateHandJointsEXT.
Fix render model UUIDs not generating correctly on Linux.
Fixed a bug where the valid and tracked flags were set on hand joints when the joint data were actually invalid.
Fixed a bug where hand tracking could return a XR_RUNTIME_FAILURE when it should have only been invalid poses.
Removed palm_ext/pose from vive_trackers to match specification.
Runtime now returns XR_ERROR_GRAPHICS_REQUIREMENT_CALL_MISSING instead of XR_VALIDATION_FAILURE if an app tries to create a session without first calling xr*GetGraphicsRequirement.
Added support for XR_SWAPCHAIN_USAGE_UNORDERED_ACCESS_BIT to the D3D11 path, which was previously ignored.
Minor input speed optimizations.
Fix SteamVR not returning XR_ERROR_EXTENSION_NOT_PRESENT when an OpenXR layer requests an unavailable extension.
Fix xrCreateActionSpace returning XR_ERROR_PATH_UNSUPPORTED when using Vive trackers
As always, if you are interested, we encourage enrolling into SteamVR Beta by right-clicking on SteamVR in your Steam library, clicking on "Properties" and selecting "Betas" from the list on the left hand side and then clicking "Beta" under Beta Participation. Additionally, if you use Steam Link for Meta Quest, you can opt into the beta here or in-headset by going to your library, clicking the "..." on Steam Link, selecting Settings and clicking the button to the right of "Installed Version Information."
Help & Information:
The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here.
If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a SteamVR System Report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues.
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