Steam Deck Beta Client Update: October 2nd
The Steam Deck Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
General
Game Recording
Steam Input
Note: This update was re-released October 3rd with the following additional change:
General
- Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 126.0.6478.183
- Fixed games stored on an external drive still showing as available when the drive is removed.
- Fixed some miscellaneous common crashes.
- Make the enter action on the login password entry attempt to login rather than requiring navigation to the "submit" button.
- Detecting and passing commands to an already running Steam client is significantly faster.
- Improve compatibility for native titles that have not been reviewed yet by launching them in the same runtime environment as reviewed titles.
Game Recording
- Added video previews to the Background Recording items in the media manager when hovering them with a mouse or focusing them in BPM.
- Added video previews to the Background Recording items in the app details page's screenshot section when hovering them with a mouse or focusing them in BPM.
- Added a setting to record microphone input alongside gameplay audio.
- In per-game settings, add the ability to record a specified game indefinitely with no specified time limit.
- Integrated the list of games where recording is disabled into the per-game settings.
Steam Input
- Fixed crash occurring when querying community controller configurations in the configurator.
Note: This update was re-released October 3rd with the following additional change:
- Fixed regression in beta that prevented game recording and remote play from using the GPU encoder.