Steam Deck News

SteamOS 3.4.9 has just been released to the Stable channel as an update to all Deck users. The update contains the following changes:

• Fixed a GPU driver crash with Starfield
  
• Fixed hangs on reboot when switching from upcoming Beta OS releases.
  

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.

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

Remote Play

• Fixed occasional crash directly launching a game from the Steam Link UI
  
• Added support for HEVC video encoding when streaming to macOS
  

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.

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

General

• Fixed issue where some steam:// protocol handlers were not handled correctly due to case sensitivity. Example: steam://url/communityfilepage/ was not working correctly.
  
• Fixed issue with steam://connect/:/ was not handled.
  
• Fixed a case where the System Report upload process would proclaim success even though the operation failed.
  
• Added a "Save To Desktop" option to the System Report dialog.
  

Steam Cloud

• Fixed a case where Steam Cloud saves could be synced to a computer that did not have the game installed if the game was available for streaming from another PC
  

Desktop Mode

• Fixed clicking "Play Game" links in event news causing client popup windows to close.
  
• steamwebhelper support dialog is now shown if the main client window cannot be created at startup.
  

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.

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

Desktop Mode

• The overlay tabbed browser will now wait until the overlay has been activated for the first time before restoring saved tabs.
  
• Added an option to In Game settings that allows toggling whether overlay browser tabs will be restored when starting a game.
  

Steam Input

• Reduced lag when switching between pages in the "Edit Layout" view for configurations with large numbers of action sets/layers/mode-shifts