Valve put out another Steam Beta Client with minor Steam Play changes

I've been hit by the issue of continuous re-downloading.

MHWorld kept re-downloading again and again - I've now tried to uninstall and reinstall.
Thankfully I'm on a 1 GBps - again, for this to fully work had to disable IPv6 and enable only IPv4 (another bug/issue with latest steam release - but this may be due to ISP problems?)

Not the smoothest beta released :)

READ THIS QUOTE PPL

Fellow Linux users:

Watch out, you might lose gamedata if you've had set to use Proton for all games and/or use Proton for native games! Steam is currently re downloading a lot of games for me and other people report the same.

When you start steam after the update, all Proton specific settings are set to default and by that it will delete all Windows games and redownload the Linux files of native games you set to use with proton.

To reduce the amount of lost data, when you start the client after the update, go straight to the Steam settings > Steam Play and enable Proton for all titles and restart the client. The faster you can do that, the less data steam is able to delete.

After the restart you also need to go to the native games you use with Proton and set them to use Proton again, also restart Steam after that.

(Emphasis mine)

Oh wow, that's pretty brutal. :O


Last edited by dpanter on 19 January 2019 at 11:22 am UTC

well 70gig of redownload has started :( my 10M line is being pushed but it is what it is· As long as these are few and far between.

I've been hit by the issue of continuous re-downloading.

I couldn't switch from native to Proton with Dying Light, it just kept re-downloading again and again. I had to uninstall the game and clear download cache (Steam menu/Settings/Downloads) before it could be installed properly.

This is what a beta is for though remember, here be dragons.

Added the ability to force Steam Play compatibility tools for non-Steam game shortcuts

Again I am pleased - I would say pleasantly surprised, but it is not that surprising by now - by Steam making it easier for people to play non-Steam games. :)

I've reanabled steam-play for all games after this beta and now, Steam wants to re-download most of my "windows" games. Is there a way to avoid that? Because they are still on my HDD. And that's a lot of Go!

Added the ability to force Steam Play compatibility tools for non-Steam game shortcuts

Again I am pleased - I would say pleasantly surprised, but it is not that surprising by now - by Steam making it easier for people to play non-Steam games. :)

Valve is basically the most benevolent DRM provider out there. If it wasn't for the DRM I suppose only Free Software only people would have anything to complain about at all. If GOG adopted Valve's attitude about everything else(while keeping their DRM free stance) or Valve adopted GOG's DRM free stance(While still keeping all their work on Linux, Proton, DXVK etc) it would be the best possible combination.


Last edited by Kristian on 19 January 2019 at 12:10 pm UTC

I've reanabled steam-play for all games after this beta and now, Steam wants to re-download most of my "windows" games. Is there a way to avoid that? Because they are still on my HDD. And that's a lot of Go!

Same here, but when I had checked all the settings again and allowed the updates to run, they just completed instantly (similar to the old 0-byte ones) so nothing new was actually downloaded.

I think it's borked the steam servers, I have a load of pending downloads, but nothing's actually downloading because "content servers unreachable". :(

I've reanabled steam-play for all games after this beta and now, Steam wants to re-download most of my "windows" games. Is there a way to avoid that? Because they are still on my HDD. And that's a lot of Go!

Same here, but when I had checked all the settings again and allowed the updates to run, they just completed instantly (similar to the old 0-byte ones) so nothing new was actually downloaded.

After yesterday's client beta update, I got several 0 byte downloads -- but after today's update, it's trying to download the windows-only titles all over again. I *have* restored all my settings.

Easiest way to avoid redownload is:
1. download the update - do not restart steam!
2. switch to offlinemode - will restart steam
3. redo the steamplay settings the way they were before the update
4. restart in online mode again


Last edited by Schattenspiegel on 19 January 2019 at 12:49 pm UTC

I've reanabled steam-play for all games after this beta and now, Steam wants to re-download most of my "windows" games. Is there a way to avoid that? Because they are still on my HDD. And that's a lot of Go!

Same here, but when I had checked all the settings again and allowed the updates to run, they just completed instantly (similar to the old 0-byte ones) so nothing new was actually downloaded.

I've got some of my games that have been deleted, like Red faction guerrilla remarstered (30Go) or Street fighter 30th anniversary (5Go). For the other games it's just a few 100Mo to download. Pfeww!!! With games like Doom or GTAV, it could have been a lot worse.

I am eagerly awaiting the ability to manage the feature and version in the BPM settings.

Added the ability to force Steam Play compatibility tools for non-Steam game shortcuts

Ok, now this is a killer feature for me. I have numerous Lutris or PlayOnLinux shortcuts for non-Steam Wine games that I run from Steam interface.

Well, this update broke this new feature on SteamOS for me. Move or Die (which has been broken on SteamOS for a few months now) worked with SteamPlay yesterday but doesn't start today. :-(

I had to close my session and log back again (in fact I even rebooted my computer) because after the update I couldn't run the games with steam play. But now, it's working great as before.

Well, this update broke this new feature on SteamOS for me. Move or Die (which has been broken on SteamOS for a few months now) worked with SteamPlay yesterday but doesn't start today. :-(

You have to enable SteamPlay again.

I think it's borked the steam servers, I have a load of pending downloads, but nothing's actually downloading because "content servers unreachable". :(

Enable ipv6?

It just straight up wiped a lot of my games; I check the game folder and it's empty :C Fucking weak, man. I just turned off the beta, now I'm too scared to switch it back on.