Steam Deck News

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed formatting of links in news posts
  
• Fixed a beta client only issue where a game may freeze while trying to set an achievement. This could affect games such as Elden Ring and Dark Souls.
  

Game Recording

• Improved the display of background recordings in the Post Game Summary on library game pages, especially for footage recorded at 21:9 or wider aspect ratios.
  

Desktop Mode

• Timer UI updated to use icons for buttons so that it works better across all languages.
  
• Timer no longer has a Clear button since the new UI doesn't need it.
  

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable channel.

General

• Fixed an issue where demos would not show a play button after changing accounts.
  

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Improvements to keyboard event tracking and audio latency in updated SDL build
  
• Improved timeout logic when establishing initial connection from UI layer to steam client's API layer
  
• Improved client startup performance
  
• Fixed controller input no longer going to game after resuming from sleep if a wake movie is set.
  
• Fixed broken thumbnail for screenshots from non-steam game shortcuts uploaded to steam, when viewed from another computer
  
• Fixed a case that game server / server browser lists would re-fetch when only re-ping on existing list was requested
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur at exit while cleaning up websockets
  
• Fixed some games with achievements showing as "No Achievements" when sorting grids or shelves by achievement percentage.
  
• Fixed certain apps disappearing from Recent Games after a client restart.
  

Game Recording

• Improved thumbnail smoothness when mouse tracking across different highlights / regions on the timeline
  
• Added a max framerate setting. Currently supports 30 or 60 fps.
  
• Fixed issue preventing default .mp4 file extension from being applied to user saved files if the user did not type an extension along with the filename
  
• Fixed a bug causing the live timeline edge to deviate from the actual live edge of the current recording
  
• Fixed a bug that caused clips to lose their thumbnails when sent from one computer to another.
  
• Fixed game timeline markers not being downloaded in rare cases.
  

Desktop Mode

• Fixed Ctrl-F not focusing search box in library
  

Clock and Timer

• New Clock app in the Steam Overlay that can optionally be pinned on top of games.
  
• Improved Timer UI.
  

Big Picture

• Add warnings to game recording overlay page when broadcasting / remote playing
  

Remote Play

• Simplify encoding options to a hardware encoding enable checkbox
  

Steam Input

• Fixed for SIAPI GetMotionData not returning any information on every controller but the first one plugged in.
  
• Fix for Okami HD Brush and Fishing Rod game actions
  

Note: This beta was re-released with additional changes:

• Fixed save file dialog in overlay sometimes replacing part of the file name with the file extension.
  
• Fixed an issue where demos would not show a play button after changing accounts.