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Steam Deck Beta Client Update: November 27th

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

Game Recording
  • Fixed bug which applied background recording retention interval to manual recordings

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: November 25th

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

General
  • Fixed game notes being reset sometimes when enabling/disabling spell checking.
  • Fixed hardware video acceleration setting showing as enabled when GPU accelerated rendering in webviews is disabled (both must be enabled for hardware video acceleration to work).


Game Recording (Desktop Changes)
  • Fixed issue preventing audio capture by the steam overlay in some games on Windows
  • Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding
  • Fixed issue causing some users to encounter failures while exporting video clips


Remote Play (Desktop Changes)
  • Fixed issue preventing Linux users with Nvidia cards from using their GPU to accelerate video encoding

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: November 20th

[p]We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.[/p][p][/p][p]General[/p]
  • [p]Fixed audio desync that occurs for some game recording videos when played in Steam or Chrome browser[/p]
[p][/p][p]Desktop Mode[/p]
  • [p]Added settings button to allow resetting the game recording folder to the default path[/p]
[p][/p][p]Remote Play[/p]
  • [p]Fixed store and community features being disabled when streaming to a Mac[/p]

Steam Deck Client Update: November 19th

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

General
  • Fixed a regression in audio capture for Remote Play Together
  • Fixed issue causing some games to slow down after long play sessions.
  • Fixed some causes of rare crashes in Steam Client.


Desktop Mode
  • Fixed successive game recording exports after the first one sometimes exporting the wrong clip.