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Steam Client Beta Update - Nov 24th

24 November, 2015 - Pierre-Loup

The beta has just been updated with the following changes:

Big Picture

Expanded the Resume and Explore part of Library, adding more rows based on what your friends are playing, what games have updated, and others.

Steam Controller

Added a new touchpad mode, Mouse Region. This lets a touchpad be mapped to a configurable, fixed region of the game window, such that touching the pad in a given zone will always position the mouse cursor to the same matching spot in that region. This can be used to improve accuracy and responsiveness in top-down action games and strategy games. Mouse Region modes can warp the cursor to and from their region when they are activated through mode-shifts, which can be useful for holding a button to activate a smaller Mouse Region above the minimap in a strategy game. The regions are also reshapable, allowing a configuration to temporarily activate a horizontal, flat Mouse Region on top of a skillbar in a roleplaying game.
Added support for visualizing small Mouse Region modes in the Controller HUD.
With this client, a new firmware for the controller has also been released with improved touchpad finger tracking and various other bug fixes.

In-Home Streaming

Modified all capture paths to use NVENC when available. Side-by-side comparisons show significant improvement in both quality and latency.
Reworked AMD hardware encoding to improve smoothness and reduce hitching.
Known issue: the specific combination of AMD hardware encoding + client-side hardware decoding still results in black frames/flickering. We are still investigating along with AMD, but for now we recommend that you disable either hardware encoding or client-side hardware decoding as a workaround.

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36 Comments

Lazio 28 Nov, 2015 @ 4:59am

leo

Dentifrice 25 Nov, 2015 @ 5:07pm

Can't have my games in NVIRF (for the one support it of course), now it seems i'm always NVENC (which is really not good, lag, bad quality, etc..) GTX 770

Now I force NVFBC so I get something better...

Au Auuอิอิ 25 Nov, 2015 @ 3:48pm

wow

vOKama 25 Nov, 2015 @ 3:13pm

Michelangelo , controller by itself allows switching between profiles on the fly, but I believe that it requires developers to program such instructions right into the game.

MR.Homikator 25 Nov, 2015 @ 11:36am

Frazer

25 Nov, 2015 @ 9:16am

The Mouse Region stuff sounds nice.

Michelangelo 25 Nov, 2015 @ 7:34am

Good point that Mouse Region Feature!! thanks!

I´m still struggling and missing the Right Stick. In games like SW Battlefront, when I climb into a ship, the "soldier" profile is useless!!.. maybe you should add a way to "switch profiles" on the fly.
And also add a feature that really replaces a phisical RIGHT STICK with the RIGHT TRACKPAD...because today... I have to switch to a 360 controller to fly the ships.

THANKS FOR READING VALVE!!

eee rok 25 Nov, 2015 @ 6:25am

Я 2 рампаги сделал:3

anonymous 25 Nov, 2015 @ 4:03am

どーも

Ashen One 25 Nov, 2015 @ 3:58am

аниме говно

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