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08-28-2013, 05:29 PM
A new Steam Client update has been released and will be automatically downloaded. The specific changes are listed below.
Steam
Fixed a bug which prevented the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Privacy Agreement from being displayed when creating a new account
In addition, this update includes all changes from the previous release this morning:
Steam
Fixed some cases that may have been the cause of non-Steam game shortcuts disappearing
Change Steam to not require a restart when going from offline mode to online mode at login time
Fixed cases where the client could become stuck in Offline Mode
Fixed a bug that prevented login after encountering a network error
Library now always shows free games if you own any of its DLC
Fixed crash on startup if you ran two steam:// commands quickly
Fixed a potential crash shutting down Steam or halting content downloads
Improved Steam Client responsiveness when performing network uploads
Fixed a bug which caused Workshop and Steam Cloud file uploads to fail
Fixed a crash when downloading or updating games
Fixed a crash when quitting some multiplayer games
Changed Steamworks API calls to fail fatally if Steam.exe has crashed so that the game will fail in a user visible manner (vs some games appearing to run but failing to save progress to Steam Cloud and users later discovering all progress was lost)Fixed loading sound caches for Zombie Panic Source Mod
Big Picture
Work around a regression caused by recent versions of GeForce Experience which prevented the guide button from working on X360 controllers
Fixed a bug where a X360 controller assigned a player index > 0 by XInput may not be used properly on Windows
Decreased texture memory usage and increased performance in some scenarios where parts of the UI are transformed offscreen
More aggressive caching of custom font data leading to improved rendering perf in some transitions in/out of text heavy UI on Windows
Added new multi-user login and create account UIs
Added shutdown UI
Added Go Offline / Go Online to the Quit UI
Added network connectivity error UI during login
Changed Web Browser behavior when using a keyboard/mouse to not allow over scroll and to behave more like a normal browser in terms of scrolling, gamepad behavior is unchanged
Fixed a Web Browser bug where links that open in a new tab/popup could initially load very slowly
Fixed a bug in the Web Browser where scrolling via any input method would cause the underlying browser implementation to believe the mouse cursor had centered on the screen and would then cause spurious hover/tooltip display in some pages
Fixed an issue that could cause overlay notification messages to stop appearing randomly after some period of gameplay time
Fixed styles regression with main menu buttons jumping to the right on transitions back from deeper UI
Fixed styles regressions transitioning in and out of “New for you” display
Fixed styles issue making prices get truncated in the store view at times when a featured game had a long title/descriptionBig Picture store can show Linux support icons
Linux/Mac OS X
On OS X 10.9 point to the new Preference location for the Accessibility interface
Fixed particle system fuzziness in Big Picture on Linux and OSX to match Windows
Updated Steam Client to use the latest version of SDL2
Fixed a memory leak during voice communication on Linux
Fixed a crash in the Big Picture web browser on Linux
Improved Big Picture OpenGL rendering, added support for more complex gradient types, fixed inset shadow renderering and fixed jittering of some effects due to float to int rounding
Fixed overlay crash on non-Steam app shutdown on Linux
Fixed Steam crash on Linux systems with no USB support
Fixed Linux display of game shortcut names for games with non-ASCII letters in the name
Fixed some Big Picture crashes playing YouTube video on Linux
Improve Steam client support for XFS and large drives on LinuxFixed web browsing while in offline mode to load the proper offline mode page
More... (http://store.steampowered.com/news/11346/)
Steam
Fixed a bug which prevented the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Privacy Agreement from being displayed when creating a new account
In addition, this update includes all changes from the previous release this morning:
Steam
Fixed some cases that may have been the cause of non-Steam game shortcuts disappearing
Change Steam to not require a restart when going from offline mode to online mode at login time
Fixed cases where the client could become stuck in Offline Mode
Fixed a bug that prevented login after encountering a network error
Library now always shows free games if you own any of its DLC
Fixed crash on startup if you ran two steam:// commands quickly
Fixed a potential crash shutting down Steam or halting content downloads
Improved Steam Client responsiveness when performing network uploads
Fixed a bug which caused Workshop and Steam Cloud file uploads to fail
Fixed a crash when downloading or updating games
Fixed a crash when quitting some multiplayer games
Changed Steamworks API calls to fail fatally if Steam.exe has crashed so that the game will fail in a user visible manner (vs some games appearing to run but failing to save progress to Steam Cloud and users later discovering all progress was lost)Fixed loading sound caches for Zombie Panic Source Mod
Big Picture
Work around a regression caused by recent versions of GeForce Experience which prevented the guide button from working on X360 controllers
Fixed a bug where a X360 controller assigned a player index > 0 by XInput may not be used properly on Windows
Decreased texture memory usage and increased performance in some scenarios where parts of the UI are transformed offscreen
More aggressive caching of custom font data leading to improved rendering perf in some transitions in/out of text heavy UI on Windows
Added new multi-user login and create account UIs
Added shutdown UI
Added Go Offline / Go Online to the Quit UI
Added network connectivity error UI during login
Changed Web Browser behavior when using a keyboard/mouse to not allow over scroll and to behave more like a normal browser in terms of scrolling, gamepad behavior is unchanged
Fixed a Web Browser bug where links that open in a new tab/popup could initially load very slowly
Fixed a bug in the Web Browser where scrolling via any input method would cause the underlying browser implementation to believe the mouse cursor had centered on the screen and would then cause spurious hover/tooltip display in some pages
Fixed an issue that could cause overlay notification messages to stop appearing randomly after some period of gameplay time
Fixed styles regression with main menu buttons jumping to the right on transitions back from deeper UI
Fixed styles regressions transitioning in and out of “New for you” display
Fixed styles issue making prices get truncated in the store view at times when a featured game had a long title/descriptionBig Picture store can show Linux support icons
Linux/Mac OS X
On OS X 10.9 point to the new Preference location for the Accessibility interface
Fixed particle system fuzziness in Big Picture on Linux and OSX to match Windows
Updated Steam Client to use the latest version of SDL2
Fixed a memory leak during voice communication on Linux
Fixed a crash in the Big Picture web browser on Linux
Improved Big Picture OpenGL rendering, added support for more complex gradient types, fixed inset shadow renderering and fixed jittering of some effects due to float to int rounding
Fixed overlay crash on non-Steam app shutdown on Linux
Fixed Steam crash on Linux systems with no USB support
Fixed Linux display of game shortcut names for games with non-ASCII letters in the name
Fixed some Big Picture crashes playing YouTube video on Linux
Improve Steam client support for XFS and large drives on LinuxFixed web browsing while in offline mode to load the proper offline mode page
More... (http://store.steampowered.com/news/11346/)