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

General

• Fixed clicking the buttons in the footer causing the glyphs to change back to gamepad

• Fixed a clicking the back button in the footer not working if nothing on the page had digital navigation focus

• Fixed the Steam logo spinner moving during the login flow

• Added delaying dimming the screen or displaying the screensaver when the Steam Store, web browsers or other apps request to disable monitor sleep and screensavers while playing video.

Steam Input

• Added support for the user-invoked On-Screen Keyboard in the desktop overlay

• Fixed issues with button and slider sizing in the configurator when opened in the desktop overlay

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

General

• Avoid stealing activation when the Steam main window opens, if another window was activated during startup/login.

Big Picture Mode

• Fixed clicking the buttons in the footer causing the glyphs to change back to gamepad

• Fixed a clicking the back button in the footer not working if nothing on the page had digital navigation focus

• Fixed the Steam logo spinner moving during the login flow

• Added delaying dimming the screen or displaying the screensaver when the Steam Store, web browsers or other apps request to disable monitor sleep and screensavers while playing video.

Steam Input

• Added support for the user-invoked On-Screen Keyboard in the desktop overlay

• Fixed issues with button and slider sizing in the configurator when opened in the desktop overlay

• Fixed Windows handheld controllers having priority over docked controllers in Steam Input API games

Remote Play

• Increased Pyrowave encoding priority to handle encoding GPU-heavy games on Windows

• Improved Vulkan capture performance

• Added support for zero-copy Pyrowave encoding of Vulkan games on Windows and Linux

Game Overlay

• Improved scaling of Performance Monitor FPS line graph for various text scaling settings values

SteamOS 0.4.2 (for Steam Frame) has just been released for all users.

This update is for the Steam Frame Beta channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

Streaming:

• Improved audio reliability while streaming

• Improved connection reliability while streaming (including "protocol error 17")

General

• Improved user proximity detection

This OS release includes SteamVR (2.18.1)

SteamOS 0.4.1 (for Steam Frame) has just been released for all users.

This update is for the Steam Frame Beta channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed "Return to Gaming mode" when starting up directly into Desktop mode.

• Fixed rare cases of other network interfaces causing disruption of wireless dongle connection.

• Spectator view is now smoothed by default. Spectator view can be accessed on PC via Steam > Settings > Remote Play, or any device that supports Steam Link to preview what the Steam Frame user is seeing in headset.

• Users can now specify their Dominant Eye in VR Settings. This controls which eye is used for spectator view, screenshots, etc.

• Added option to disable spectator view smoothing under VR Settings > Developer (in headset).

• Fixed an issue where the dashboard would recenter unnecessarily for some users.

• Improved focus handling and gamepad navigation in the dashboard.

• Fixed a case of dashboard panels flickering.

• Miscellaneous performance and stability improvements.

• Updated embedded browser (CEF) with crash fixes and Linux H.264 detection fixes.

• Fixed the keyboard not appearing while streaming.

• Audio: downmix and binaural rendering now have matching volume across all formats.

• Improved proximity sensor detection model.

This OS release includes SteamVR (2.18.1)