Steam Client Update Released

[Brick Tamland]

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

 

Big Picture

• - Enabled new community and profile features. Market, game hubs, workshop, and inventory are now available natively in Big Picture mode

• - Made holding down the Guide button on a game controller for more than a second jump you right to the Exit menu

• - Updated the Friends interface to make more options natively available

• - Updated the System Menu (accessed by the Guide button on a game controller) to let you more easily navigate within Big Picture

• - Added support for German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian keyboard layouts in the on screen keyboard

• - When holding either trigger keys with the on screen keyboard the shifted mode now stays set

General

• - Updated the web component to CEF version 43.0.2357.81

• - Updated the downloads page to show disk usage as MB/sec

• - Fixed the friends menu items in the right click system menu not setting state correctly when selected

• - Fixed some cases where audio in other applications would get muted by Windows when using games with Steam Voice

• - Fixed showing launch option for additional DLC before content finished installing

Steam Video

• - Added a custom video player for watching streaming videos

• - Enabled playback in Big Picture including controller support

In-Home Streaming and Broadcasting

• - Fixed crash when video recording starts in some D3D11 games

• - Fixed minimizing game window when live broadcast starts

Overlay

• - Improved the friends UI performance with very large friends lists

Windows

• - Fixed bugs when maximizing windows on a secondary monitor which is larger than the primary monitor

SteamOS, Linux and Mac OS X

• - Fixed having to unlock the web player when watching broadcasts each time Steam is launched

 

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