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Valve released and then rereleased a fresh stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements.

The initial launch came with some problems on both Desktop and Steam Deck. The rereleased update fixes a "display issue on game details page for games with queued updates" across both. But for Steam Deck, there were bigger problems with these two issues quickly getting solved:

  • Fixed TDP and GPU clock performance settings not working.
  • Fixed crash loop at startup when Wifi Debug Mode setting is enabled.

As for the rest of the stable update this was specific for the Steam Deck:

  • 'Enable Steam Play for all other titles' is always enabled on SteamOS, updated the UI accordingly to stop showing a non functional toggle.

And all these apply across all supported systems:

General

  • Fixed brief layout shift of elements (one or two frames) when navigating back to the library section.
  • Fixed Steam Client window focusing multiple times on startup.
  • Fixed Update News window being covered by Steam Client window at startup.
  • Fixed notifications displaying in wrong position in some games.
  • Fixed some instances where windows fail to render after display events.
  • Fixed game content switching from private beta to default branch in some cases
  • Fixed child accounts in a family getting additional playtime after switching to offline mode.
  • Fixed in-game friends sometimes not showing up in the "Friends Who Play" section of the game details page.
  • Improved accuracy of download progress and time estimates. Accuracy will improve over the course of more downloads.
  • Improved consistency and clarity of download/install/update UI:
    • Byte counts, when displayed, refer to the number of bytes to download.
    • Progress bars and percentages, when displayed, refer to the total progress of the install/update, which includes work before, after, and during the download. The exception is the top (blue) progress bar on the downloads page, which shows the bytes downloaded.
    • Time remaining estimates refer to the total progress of the install/update. These estimates will be very rough at first but will become more accurate as Steam learns more about the performance of the user's network and disks.
Big Picture
  • Fixed issue that could allow the keyboard to cover the target text area when summoned from a game.
macOS
  • Added Steam Overlay support for games using HDR rendering.
Linux
  • Improved the download speed of Steam client updates.
  • No longer applying compatibility tool filtering to shortcuts.
  • Fixed a rare issue where non-steam Protons could get assigned an incorrect compatibility tool.
  • Fixed initial positioning of dropdown menus.
Remote Play
  • Fixed controller input when streaming S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
  • Fixed sending a Remote Play Together invite from a VR game streaming to a headset
Steam Input
  • Fixed crash when using DualSense controllers, related to gyro timestamp calculation.
  • Fixed adaptive trigger effects with the DualSense Edge controller.

Sources: Desktop Changelog | Steam Deck Changelog

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R Daneel Olivaw 23 hours ago
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as a person with very slow internet (yay merica) I like all the updates to the downloads/install/update ui because I spend so much time staring at that.
grigi 21 hours ago
When I was in South Africa, you'd start a download, and go to bed. Then be disappointed as one forgot to block the system from going to sleep.
When moving to the UK the cheapest broadband solution was only a literal 60× faster (and a quarter the price) than what I had, I started wasting time waiting for games to download.

Such is life :shrug:

Edit: I once went to a friends job which was at a datacentre, plugged my notebook in, and was astounded that I got a full 100mbit download speed!
Life was simpler back then, I expected less from everything.


Last edited by grigi on 2 Apr 2025 at 7:17 pm UTC
chr 9 hours ago
@grigi Very relatable.

I recently had an analogous experience when switching back to an older laptop due to previous one's screen being broken. I uninstalled Steam on it. Even the browsing experience is so slow that one of my apartment mates told me in a solemn voice "I'm sorry for your loss" 😂.

But this experience has made me more peaceful. I'm less in an ADHD rush to click, view, interact constantly.


Last edited by chr on 3 Apr 2025 at 6:53 am UTC
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