Steam Deck News

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

General

• Adjusted the recent games page header so that it's visible when changing selection.
  

Steam Workshop
Added functionality that allows swapping the items in your subscription list quickly using collections:

• Added ability to save the filtered list of items to a new or existing Workshop collection. This will overwrite the contents of the collection with the contents of the list.
  
• Added ability to overwrite the user's subscription list to just the contents of a Workshop collection.
  
• Added ability to add items from a collection to the user's subscription list.
  

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

General

• Fixed consistency of application fade-ins/fade-outs
  
• Fixed slightly blurry image when streaming from the Deck with Steam Remote Play
  
• Fixed crashes when streaming to/from the Deck with Steam Remote Play
  
• Fixed black screen when launching Forza Horizon 4 and other titles on Steam Deck OLED
  
• Added a timeout to the boot selection screen
  

Firmware 120 (LCD) / 107 (OLED)

• Fixed several USB compatibility issues
  
• Developer note: This changes the default USB mode back to XHCI (host-only) while issues with dual-role device mode are investigated

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

Desktop Mode

• Fixed regression causing Steam client to become unresponsive when switching to Big Picture mode.
  

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

General

• Reduce the amount of black screen flashes that happen when opening the Steam interface while playing a game with a custom screen refresh rate setting.
  
• Replaced Nearest scaling mode with Pixel, a pseudo-bandlimited filter for upscaling pixel art to non-integer factors without introducing aliasing. Integer scale factors will still be Nearest.
  
• Fixed "Friends who Play" section not refreshing until the client was restarted
  
• Fixed a crash in "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" when switching maps.
  
• Fixed situations causing the Steam client to only download the Windows version of a title and later attempting to run it without Proton.
  
• Reset the HDR Visualization setting to None for all users.
  
• Moved the HDR Visualization setting from Display->Advanced to Developer settings.
  

Steam Workshop

• Re-designed the Workshop subscriptions list (accessible from Game Properties). It now includes the ability to sort by subscription date, last updated, size, name, and load order.
  
• Added ability to change the local load order of Workshop item subscriptions.
  
• Added ability to set the local order based on any Workshop item dependencies (must be set on the Workshop items themselves).
  
• Added ability to disable Workshop item subscriptions, which will hide them from the game.
  
• Added the ability to filter the Workshop subscriptions list by tag name. Use the same search field for filtering items by name.
  
• Show the name of the Workshop item being download in the game's tooltip on the Downloads page.