Steam Client Update Released

[Brick Tamland]

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

New Big Picture Mode

• Updated Big Picture is now available for testing. You can read more about it in this blog post. Modify your Steam client shortcut and add -gamepadui on the command-line to automatically start Steam in the new Big Picture Mode. Alternatively, pass -newbigpicture to start in Desktop mode and have access to the new Big Picture Mode at any time.
  

General

• Reduced client startup times for users with large game libraries
  
• Fixed issue where launching a game would take longer to start if there was no network connection
  
• Fixed VR flags not showing up in app details for some games
  
• Center the popup controller configurator window when viewing controller layout
  
• Fixed circular download progress indicator being broken in game entry list
  
• Fixed downloads page crashing when starting in offline mode
  
• Downloads page now properly responds to online/offline status
  
• Updated “Steam News” popup dialog (again)
  

Sign In

• Fix a case where if the sign-in UI had cached credentials which had become invalid, it could get stuck and not accept valid credentials thereafter
  
• Fixed an input focus bug requiring an initial click on the sign in UI before you could type your username or password
  
• Fixed issues with dragging or closing the sign in window, and related display scaling issues, on computers with nonstandard desktop scaling
  
• Fixed an edge case in handling of invalid cached credentials affecting reauthentication
  
• Fixed issue with sign in refresh UI when the user had already signed in once during the current session.
  

Steam Input

• Gyro Enabling: The "Touch" option is now available to controllers which do not have capacitive touch sensors - Moving joysticks out of their deadzone now counts as a "Touch".
  
• All controller types can each now optionally choose to use a Nintendo-style layout. This flips the A and B button and X and Y button universally in Steam and in games.
  
• The Xbox extended features driver has been updated for Windows 11
  
• Fixed hang when the Amazon Luna controller rumbles on macOS
  
• Fixed issue with the touch binding in As Mouse mode releasing before the end of a swipe
  

Remote Play

• Fixed occasional long hitches during Windows desktop capture
  
• Fixed glyphs for third party Nintendo controllers while streaming
  

SteamVR

• Fixed issue that caused some OpenXR app images to not appear properly in SteamVR
  

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