News – Steam Client Update Released

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A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

Games to Play Together

• You can now add Friends as a filter under Advanced Filtering in your Library. It will show games you have in common.
• Right-click on any user in Chat or your Friends List to Find Games to Play Together and it will auto-populate your filter while also applying the Multiplayer tag.
• Right-click a Group Chat header to do the same with smaller group chats or voice channels (8 members or less)

General

• In-game purchases on Mac and Linux will now use the updated purchase approval dialog
• Reduced network usage at startup
• Fixed issue causing games which are currently updating to not change to playable when going into Offline Mode unless Steam is restarted
• Fixed link to downloads page not appearing at client startup if no downloads are ongoing
• Fixed input of characters using AltGr on Windows in the Steam Login dialog and Steam Chat and web browsers in the Steam Overlay
• Fixed community broadcast pop-out and closing of the mini-player view
• Fixed client update dialog sometimes failing to display update notes
• Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 85.0.4183.121

Remote Play

• Greatly improved capture performance in Vulkan games
• Fixed Remote Play launch hanging when the remote game had a cloud sync pending
• Fixed black screen when streaming to a Linux computer

Steam Input

• Steam no longer ignores PS4 controllers when DS4Windows is running, allowing DS4Windows to remap them normally
• Added support for the Hori Fighting Stick ?
• Added support for Kinvoca Joy-Cons controllers
• Default the names of generic gamepads to the device name reported over USB
• Fixed not being able to press the mic button on PS5 controllers
• Fixed displaying the name of Nintendo Online NES controllers
• Fix an issue where Switch controllers could show up w/ a duplicate device
• Fixed issues w/ Alt-Tabbing via Guide Button Chords
• Added experimental support for PS3 controllers on macOS
• Bring various bug fixes from the Steam Deck beta branch to fix those while streaming from the Desktop client
• FlickStick Upgrade (inherited from CS:GO)
  • New angle snapping options for initial Flick-Turns (None, 180, 90, 60, 45, Forward Deadzone Angle).
  • Tunable Forward Deadzone Angle.
  • Rapid consecutive Flick-Turns will be fully respected (the previous Flick-Turn was interrupted in the last version)
  • Flick-Turn Duration becomes a tunable smoothing factor (low pass filter), instead of a fixed duration. The time to complete a turn is relative to the size of the angle being turned.
  • Flick-Turn is smoothed based on how far the stick is thrown past the inner deadzone, for a less “surprising” Flick-Turn threshold.
  • Sensitivity Setting becomes “Pixels Per Revolution” (This setting was previously pixels per half revolution).
  • Sweep rotation sensitivity and smoothing can be tuned independent of Flick-Turn.
  • More gradual rotation when stick is partially-thrown

Steam Overlay

• Fixed web browser crash when loading certain blank URLs

macOS

• Fixed incorrect placement of “Restore Window” button when client window is maximized

Linux

• Fix entering characters in Steam Overlay that use an AltGr key sequence

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