Valve has released a fresh Steam Client Beta for both Desktop PCs and Steam Deck, and with it there's some useful bug fixes and an interesting new screenshot adjustment for Steam Deck.
The Desktop Steam Beta changelog is as follows:
General
- Fix an error when launching some games that was introduced in the previous beta
Steam Input
- Fixed swapped A/B buttons when using Nintendo GameCube controllers
- Reset Camera Horizon: Increase maximum delay to allow for a more consistent behavior on lower/less consistent frame-rates.
Linux
- Fixed a case where the window may become unresponsive until resized.
That Linux fix is especially good, because honestly I thought I was going mad with how Steam was being so unresponsive lately, and couldn't figure out what was causing it and it seems others I spoke to saw it working fine. Turns out it was a bug and now it's fixed.
Meanwhile over on Steam Deck, you may have noticed a while ago with SteamOS 3.5 that screenshots no longer showed any of the Steam UI, including a removal of the performance overlay from screenshots. I did speak to Valve on this, and it was intentional, but I requested an option to have it back and now they've delivered!
Having the choice is good for people who want to show Steam UI (like the performance overlay) for whatever reason.
Steam Deck Beta changelog:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.General
- Fixed a bug that prevented the framerate limiter from applying changes.
- Fixed screenshots not including Steam user interface elements.
- Added an option to Settings->In Game to hide Steam user interface elements from screenshots.
- Fix an error when launching some games that was introduced in the previous beta
Steam Input
- Fixed swapped A/B buttons when using Nintendo GameCube controllers
- Reset Camera Horizon: Increase maximum delay to allow for a more consistent behavior on lower/less consistent frame-rates.
That Linux fix is especially good, because honestly I thought I was going mad with how Steam was being so unresponsive lately, and couldn't figure out what was causing it and it seems others I spoke to saw it working fine. Turns out it was a bug and now it's fixed.Oh thank God that wasn't just me! It's been driving me mental, too!
That Linux fix is especially good, because honestly I thought I was going mad with how Steam was being so unresponsive lately, and couldn't figure out what was causing it and it seems others I spoke to saw it working fine. Turns out it was a bug and now it's fixed.
The funny thing is it was already fixed some updates ago but then it returned. I'm glad it didn't take ages to fix it this time
Philadelphus 12 Mar 2024
Dana Souly 12 Mar 2024
But still, XFCE, i3wm and other similar tiling window managers are having massive problems with Steam at the moment.I don't see any problems on Xfce.
Dana Souly 12 Mar 2024
Maybe you're using Steam in another way than me?But still, XFCE, i3wm and other similar tiling window managers are having massive problems with Steam at the moment.I don't see any problems on Xfce.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10544
Maybe you're using Steam in another way than me?I'm not experiencing any of that, myself. Mint Xfce, stable Steam client, Intel iGPU.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10544
Is it an Nvidia issue?
Or it could be a distro issue, seeing as we're both running Mint and they're on a rolling release distribution. And I'm running the Steam Beta client if that makes any difference.Maybe you're using Steam in another way than me?I'm not experiencing any of that, myself. Mint Xfce, stable Steam client, Intel iGPU.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10544
Is it an Nvidia issue?
Dana Souly 13 Mar 2024
I'm not experiencing any of that, myself.
Or it could be a distro issueOkay, i really thought this was a Steam related issue with XFCE after I read this bugreport.
Then I need to dig deeper afterall.
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