Steam Deck News

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.
  

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

General

• Fixed a bug that could cause some local screenshots not to appear in the media manager, if the user had few screenshots saved to steam
  
• Fixed a bug that could delete a workshop file if the file had failed a file validation check and had been reacquired
  
• Fixed a bug that could leave some local screenshots undeleted after attempting to delete multiple at one time
  

Game Recording

• Improvements to UI behaviors when finalizing the beginning and end of a clip
  
• No longer warp the play head to the beginning/end of a clip when setting the beginning/end of a clip via the UI buttons
  
• Fixed a bug where using the hotkey to add a user marker would drop the marker at the wrong location
  
• Increased the minimum background recording time to 15 minutes, to give the user time to edit recent clips before the recorded video ages out
  
• Added a warning to the user if game recording has been turned off to prioritize broadcasting
  
• Ignore user marker shortcut key if game recording is disabled
  
• Added the ability to save a specific frame of a video as a steam screenshot
  
• Improved default naming of clip files to improve readability and sortability. Steam will also scan game state descriptions to apply to default clip filename, if available
  
• Fixed an exception thrown if the user canceled a clip save in the file picker dialog
  
• Updated message displayed when there is no recent other session where the user can send a clip