After being in Beta since the end of July, Valve has now released a big update to the stable version of the Steam client for everyone which has the new Downloads Page & Storage Management.
The new Downloads Page is actually a big improvement overall. Allowing you to drag and drop games around in the list. It now also correctly shows the total progression based on the downloading and disk allocation. You will also see a new (i) icon you can hover over on some updates which shows different types of content included and plenty more tweaks as you can see in the below shot:
Another big one is the overhaul of the Steam library folder management with the new Storage Manager. Instead of a plain list it now gives you easy access to each folder you have set up. From there you can repair folders, make them default, see when you last played each game and how much space they take up and more. It's another big improvements for the Steam client overall.
For Linux specifically there's these changes:
- Fixed regression causing too many open file handles error during downloads of some games
- Library pinning process is significantly faster at startup after runtime updates
- Restore compatibility with NixOS (steam-runtime#431)
- Make /usr/share/nvidia available to the container if using the NVIDIA proprietary driver, so that app-specific profiles can be applied (steam-runtime-tools#73)
- Silence most LD_PRELOAD warnings
- SDL 2.0.16 now available in sdk and runtime
- Fix web views incompatibility with distro host freetype (steam-for-linux#7935)
There's plenty of other smaller bits like support for the current set of PowerA Xbox Series X controllers, bug fixes for Remote Play Together, Valve removed the Recent Friend Activity library shelf and more. See the release notes.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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slaapliedje Sep 11, 2021
Quoting: x4merLike it needs to wake up Neo?Quoting: SchattenspiegelInteresting: with SSD + HDD(raid0) ~ 1 minute
with SSD only ~ 12 seconds
to load the client.
Edit:
And for reasons unknown the loading time stays at 12 second after remounting the HDDs even after rebooting
Thank you very much! I would never have tried that.
HDD went to sleep and motor powered down? When remounting, the drive would be woken up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9XP96PW6us
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furaxhornyx Sep 11, 2021
Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: AussieEeveeCast 'im out! Tar! Feathers! Wailing! Gnashing of Teeth!!!Quoting: EhvisThis storage manager thing looks like it was created with the Steam Deck in mind.I was thinking that too. But it's very fast and responsive, at least on Windows (don't judge me!).
For some reason I read this with an Ork voice in mind
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Quoting: x4merQuoting: SchattenspiegelInteresting: with SSD + HDD(raid0) ~ 1 minute
with SSD only ~ 12 seconds
to load the client.
Edit:
And for reasons unknown the loading time stays at 12 second after remounting the HDDs even after rebooting
Thank you very much! I would never have tried that.
HDD went to sleep and motor powered down? When remounting, the drive would be woken up.
Interesting idea, but shouldn't that be way faster than a minute?
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Quoting: dpanterPrivacy?QuoteLibrary: The Recent Friend Activity shelf has been removed.But why?
I actually would buy a lot more games if I could just filter out some of the statistics it publishes about me. I mean, talking for a friend, because I do not play nor have the games I talk about.
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Quoting: SchattenspiegelSince they seem to be using chromium as their UI engine, I wonder if it is because they never ever purged or reindexed the database. About all browsers use an sqlite3 database, and they mostly use it as inser and forget.Quoting: x4merQuoting: SchattenspiegelInteresting: with SSD + HDD(raid0) ~ 1 minute
with SSD only ~ 12 seconds
to load the client.
Edit:
And for reasons unknown the loading time stays at 12 second after remounting the HDDs even after rebooting
Thank you very much! I would never have tried that.
HDD went to sleep and motor powered down? When remounting, the drive would be woken up.
nope: I had the slow start problem for quite a few months now (one of the Steam patches). Neither library repair, changing between beta and stable client nor removal/addition of the Steam-libraries was able to fix it. It seems starting Steam with HDD (containing one of the libraries) unmounted caused some configuration file to be rewritten which fixed the problem.
I used to have a shell script that traverses al sqlite3 databases, reindex/vacuumed them, filtered some urls from the history and so on. I mean, no should know your political preference by looking in your history.
These days however the history is uploaded to the google cloud for offline analysis.
But back to what I mean to say: maybe, just maybe they added a field and hence needed to rebuild the database ;-).
Last edited by Ardje on 13 September 2021 at 8:36 am UTC
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As long as I can not fix my steam controller settings from the desktop variant, I would not even bother to look.
I do hope that steam os 3 and accompanying client release will merge all in one client engine with just different themes.
Last edited by Ardje on 13 September 2021 at 8:38 am UTC
I do hope that steam os 3 and accompanying client release will merge all in one client engine with just different themes.
Last edited by Ardje on 13 September 2021 at 8:38 am UTC
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Quoting: ArdjeQuoting: dpanterPrivacy?QuoteLibrary: The Recent Friend Activity shelf has been removed.But why?
I actually would buy a lot more games if I could just filter out some of the statistics it publishes about me. I mean, talking for a friend, because I do not play nor have the games I talk about.
I have a short friends list, but one of them is a former boss still working in my company. I do know these thoughts. If I would play such despicable games, that is, of course.
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slaapliedje Sep 13, 2021
Quoting: EikeHa, we probably all have some of those games in our libraries because of Humble Bundles or something. I generally just leave myself logged out of the Friends thing anyhow, especially when in VR, as having the pop ups mid-game saying so and so just logged in, or is playing whatever game, is rather annoying.Quoting: ArdjeQuoting: dpanterPrivacy?QuoteLibrary: The Recent Friend Activity shelf has been removed.But why?
I actually would buy a lot more games if I could just filter out some of the statistics it publishes about me. I mean, talking for a friend, because I do not play nor have the games I talk about.
I have a short friends list, but one of them is a former boss still working in my company. I do know these thoughts. If I would play such despicable games, that is, of course.
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