Steam Beta adds explainers to Steam Deck performance menu - plus fixes for Desktop too

Valve has released a new Beta for the Steam Deck and Steam Desktop that improved numerous bugs, and for Steam Deck makes the performance menu a little easier to understand.

Changes for the Steam Deck:

General

• Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 109.0.5414.120.
• Updated the quick access performance menu with descriptions for each setting, including how they affect the system and the expected power/performance/visual quality tradeoffs.
• Fixed a case where the sdcard was set as the default install location on reboot.
• Fixed a case where the network status icon would fail to render for virtual networks.
• Fixed store button on main menu remaining disabled in Family View even if store permissions were granted to the account.

Steam Input

• Fixed occasionally creating an extra virtual controller that is non-responsive.

Here's an example of the new performance menu descriptions:

This is really great, because the option names by themselves are not easy for a lot of people to understand, and this should just help make the features more accessible. The menu itself also has fancy new icons:

For Steam Desktop here's the Beta changes:

General

• Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 109.0.5414.120
• Fixed issue where clicking on Voice Chat invitation notifications did not open chat

Big Picture Mode

• Improved the display in the "Controller Configuration" tab when there are no controllers attached or the active controller is opted out of Steam Input

Remote Play

• Greatly improved performance when using hardware encoding with AMD video cards on Windows

SteamVR

• Improve layout and imagery for some of the dialogs that show up when launching VR games.
• Clicking on items in the control bar (e.g. a download in progress) will correctly switch to the Steam tab
• Show reloading message when SteamVR quits before reloading the Steam window
• Steam now only reloads every fifth time that SteamVR quits

Linux

• Known issue: when dismissing a dropdown menu, the steam client may incorrectly start blocking mouse input.