Major Steam Beta UI Update

Ugly as hell. Didn't last 60 seconds on my pc.

jamesvdm said:

Ugly as hell. Didn't last 60 seconds on my pc.

Good luck avoiding it in the not too distant future

LMAO It even predicts the future:

Uber Philf said:

Hahaha, this is irritating as Sh*t, click it, then it freezes, then it starts updating my MW2..

It takes awhile to cache all the images and pages for each game but its running really well for me

********do not install this. It will mess up game files********

SIGH,

I tried explaining this on the Steam forum, the games are statically linked with Steam, You upgraded Steam and now the games also need upgrading.

It hasn't deleted jack shit, it hasn't messed up jack shit, its updating your games so they support the new Steam client or would you prefer you games dont work at all with the new client?

Uber Philf said:

BUT! why does 6.5GB of my game have to be redownloaded... just to work with the new steam? shouldn't it be a few small files, not 3/4 of a game..

Its down to how steam packs content files, locked to the client and the latter how it uses decryption keys unfortunately

Im having to re-download 8GB of MW2.

few things i dont like, the new game browser, is a little annoying to get to, use to take 1 click now takes 2, as its not as instantaneous. i liked the old list format for games, i could see them all, no scrolling needed and it separated my installed games. but otherwise its faster, cleaner and does now slow when useing the GUI in game. 9/10 for the beta. just needs tweaking to the game list and navigation.