Major Steam Beta UI Update

[dmex]

I thought I would share this major development with Steam today





I dont want to give away all the surprises and hidden things.

If you want to try it out, goto settings and on your account tab select Beta Partitipation and join the beta

Edit: Full details here: http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdate/

Steven

 

[Lordbob75]

Looks cool, I will try this, thanks.

~Lordbob

 

[dmex]

Looks cool, I will try this, thanks.

~Lordbob

They also dumped IE from the overlay and Steam and use WebKit and Chrome as their web rendering engine

 

[Lordbob75]

Looks cool, I will try this, thanks.

~Lordbob

They also dumped IE from the overlay and Steam and use WebKit and Chrome as their web rendering engine

Well it certainly looks better.

I kinda like it so far.

~Lordbob

 

[sygnus21]

Any "gaming" issues? Hate to try this out only to find my games no longer work! My beta testing days aren't what they used to be. No patience.

 

[dmex]

Any "gaming" issues? Hate to try this out only to find my games no longer work! My beta testing days aren't what they used to be. No patience.

Overlay performance is way better and I have yet seen any problems with my games.

A full list of changes and updates can be found here towards the bottom of the page under the category "Everything, Always, Forever": A Brand New Steam

 

[sommarblond]

It's buggy as hell at the moment thou, but it sure got a nice facelift.

 

[sygnus21]

It's buggy as hell at the moment...

Care to explain what you mean?

 

[sommarblond]

It's buggy as hell at the moment...

Care to explain what you mean?

I would love to. Since it's the first public Beta released, there's nothing more to expect. The most known bug and perhaps biggest is most people can't even open steam because it crashes as soon as it starts, me included. You can take a look at their forum for other bugs and solutions. The Steam 2010 UI update - Steam Users' Forums
The biggest bugs is suppose to be fixed within an hour or two.

Edit: The fix is out already.

 

[sygnus21]

Thanks.

 

[jamesvdm]

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

 

[dmex]

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]

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:

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

 

[dmex]

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

 

[Uber Philf]

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

Now it's deleting all my MW2 game files, then re-downloading them, now i tried to reinstall it, then it wouldn't play, then i did a verification on the MW2 files, 110 files are missing, then it starts downloading those file, equivalent to 6.5gb.

I fully regret doing this, and i am now bald.

 

[jamesvdm]

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

 

[dmex]

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]

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?

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..

 

[dmex]

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.

 

[cloud8521]

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.