Steam Client Update Released

[Brick Tamland]

An update has been released for the Steam Client and will be automatically downloaded.

 

General

• Fixed in-game overlay sometimes not activating on first hot-key press after game launch

• Games can be preloaded to any available Steam Library folder

• Fixed downloading games in development

• Fixed some cases where Steam wasn't asking the user if they wanted to let the game update when re-launching after a game crash

• Fix "Recently Played" list generation

• Removed defunct Media filter from the library filter menu

• Added Tools to the Installed and Recently Played library lists

• Fixed a bug in the in-game overlay which could lead to a game crash in ShellExecute calls with unexpected parameters

• Changed in-game overlay to prefer first created and still in-use swapchain and avoid presenting on multiple swapchains at once

• Fixed memory issue and crash when voice API's were sent corrupt data, thanks to Luigi Auriemma from Revuln for the report

• Fix buffer overflow from malformed voice packets

• Fixed installing games with very large files from retail disc

Big Picture

• Added new library section for browsing and managing user screenshots

• Decreased sensitivity of trigger buttons for fast paging in library all games view

• Decreased sensitivity of analog triggers for mode switches in daisywheel text input

• Fixed hotkeys involving ctrl/alt/shift modifies not functioning in the in-game overlay as intended

• Windows: Ensure that we try to forcefully take window focus back on game exit, which deals with some cases where games with launchers could lead windows to restore focus to a random non-Steam window

• Windows: Performance improvements for the in-game overlay in D3D9ex, D3D10, D3D10.1, and D3D11 game

• Fix a case where the system context menu for the Big Picture window could be activated on game exit and input would then go to it rather than Big Picture

• Fix the Remove Friend and Block All Communication buttons in the Profile actions section to function

• Fix a rare crash during login inside of Big Picture if Steam is set to start up in Big Picture mode

In-Home Streaming

• Worked around a crash in the latest NVIDIA driver (337.88)

• Implemented brightness controls for games like Dark Souls II and Thief

• You can toggle windowed mode on the client with Alt-Enter and resize the streaming window

• Desktop shortcuts will stream games if they are currently available for streaming

• Added 2 streaming EULA dialog so you dont have to go to the remote computer to accept it after installing a game

• Fixed the menu bar showing on the client on Mac OS X 10.6

• Worked around NVIDIA driver crash when streaming games from laptops with NVIDIA GPUs

• Fixed the escape key canceling fullscreen mode on Mac OS X

• Fixed window size when leaving fullscreen mode on Mac OS X

• Streaming uses UDP ports 27031 and 27036 and TCP ports 27036 and 27037

• Implemented streaming controller support for games using the Unity engine

• Fixed black screen with some launchers when using the Windows 7 Basic theme

• Fixed "The streaming client exited unexpectedly (2)" in some cases where D3D9 and OpenGL arent available

• Added support for XInput based arcade sticks and wheels on Windows clients

• Added support for NVIDIA hardware encoding for D3D fullscreen games on GeForce 650+ cards and the latest beta NVIDIA driver (340.43)

• Enabled fast desktop capture on Optimus laptops with the latest beta NVIDIA driver

OSX

• Fixed a crash affecting some users running OS X Mavericks

• Fixed crash plugging and unplugging a game controller

• Fixed incorrectly ellipsizing strings in labels

Virtual Reality

• Added support for VR mode on Linux

• Added support for VR mode on OSX

 

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