Steam Deck News

The Steam Deck Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed Steam not being able to connect to SteamVR with error "SteamVR Failed to initialize: VR API not loaded (101)"
  

Game Recording

• Fixed a regression from October 2nd's beta client which was causing some recordings to incorrectly fall back to using the CPU to encode video while playing a game, resulting in an increase in CPU usage.
  
• Fixed an issue causing exporting a clip to file, clipboard or chat to fail or sometimes crash.
  
• Fixes some cases where the clip export dialog did not appear.
  

Steam Input

• Fixed a regression from the October 1st Beta Update which caused per-controller preferences to not get loaded in some cases.
  

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

Wireless

• Fixed a problem where Steam Deck would be unable to connect to certain Wi-Fi 7 access points

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

External Display

• Fixed a system crash when hotplugging a second display in Desktop mode

The Steam Deck Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

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.