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Steam Client Update - May 20th

[p]A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.[/p][p][/p][p]General[/p]
  • [p]Improved controller hotplug detection for some third party devices.[/p]
  • [p]Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games or switching to/from Big Picture Mode.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed game preloads showing 0bps disk activity.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Steam Overlay[/p]
  • [p]Fixed links opened from chat window showing in desktop browser rather than overlay browser.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Big Picture Mode[/p]
  • [p]Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Server Browser[/p]
  • [p]Fixed bug causing bots to contribute to the player count.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Steam Input[/p]
  • [p]Speculative Fix for rare Dualsense Edge gyroscope related bug.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Linux[/p]
  • [p]Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed when necessary.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed game recordings containing a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width was not a multiple of 64.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed Game Recording and Remote Play video streams showing green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Steamworks API[/p]
  • [p]GameOverlayActivated_t is now sent to the current VR app when the SteamVR Dashboard is opened or closed.[/p]
[p][/p][p]VR[/p]
  • [p]Fix a case where the Steam Link VR client would get a key mismatch error on stream start.[/p]
  • [p]Steam will no longer occasionally reload itself when SteamVR closes.[/p]