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Steam Client Update Released


Brick Tamland
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Steam Client Update Released

 

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

 

General

  • Fixed loading Workshop items in offline mode

  • Fixed rare corruption of downloaded workshop content

  • Removed out of date chat dialog notice about "new" item trading feature on first use

  • Hid unrelated Steam Overlay UI when authorizing an in-game transaction

Broadcast

  • Added automatically lowering encoding settings if machine is unable to encode at the minimum required frame rate

  • Added mini mode for viewing a broadcast so viewers can continue to watch a broadcast while also using the Steam Client window

  • Added pop out button to move viewing a broadcast from the Steam Client window to a new window

  • Added viewing a broadcast through Big Picture

  • Added support for recording only game audio from 64-bit processes on Windows 8

  • Fixed needing to approve the first viewer of a broadcast twice

In-Home Streaming

  • Fixed regression recording audio on Linux

  • Fixed crash when In-Home Streaming host machine failed to initialize Nvidia hardware encoding or had SLI enabled

  • Fix capture logic for windows which span multiple monitors

  • Add support for games which directly set the mouse cursor position

  • Implemented streaming controller support for Far Cry 4 and Gone Home

In-Home Streaming & Broadcast

  • Fixed audio crackle and audio loss experienced by some users after 20+ minutes of streaming on Windows

  • Extended DirectX 10/11 video recording to support additional games, including Cities: Skylines

  • Fixed recording audio on computers that have been running for a significant amount of time without a reboot (multiple weeks)

  • Fixed rare crash when audio recording device returned incorrect timestamps

Big Picture

  • Added support for the new Steam controller. The older generation Steam controller is no longer supported.

  • Fixed current view in the web favorites page being incorrect if you closed multiple tabs at a single time

  • Fixed possible process hang when stopping video playback

  • Fixed regressed layout of movie player controls

  • Fixed rare blank UI if you hit escape at the wrong time during the splash screen

  • Added hardware pages in Steam Store

  • When launching a game that is already running, attempt to switch to that game instead of showing an error message

Windows

  • Fixed blocking problem affecting some uses of peer-to-peer networking API

Linux

  • Fixed some web pages not displaying if the content was static

  • Fixed some games failing to draw text

 

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