Steam New UI 2023 How to revert

[Milca_11]

I just got the new Steam Update and i hate the interface, is there some tool i can use to revert the UI back or an alternative perhaps?

[Green Tea]

jesus fuc­k dude I wish the hell we could man, this is literally the worst edition yet, such a deaf company I swear
♥♥♥♥ steam royally, never giving these shlubs a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cent again, I'm just gonna start "buying" a game then refunding it without deleting it, already did it with rimworld and a few other games, this sh­it is so frustrating, especially when they go out of their way to fix previously working workarounds to their inability to design a proper half decent UI

[THAC0]

Originally posted by Green Tea:

jesus fuc­k dude I wish the hell we could man, this is literally the worst edition yet, such a deaf company I swear
♥♥♥♥ steam royally, never giving these shlubs a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cent again, I'm just gonna start "buying" a game then refunding it without deleting it, already did it with rimworld and a few other games, this sh­it is so frustrating, especially when they go out of their way to fix previously working workarounds to their inability to design a proper half decent UI

3rd

[thefunnyfritz]

bump, nothing was wrong with the old ui, change scares me

[vhytom]

The new UI is also broken and causes errors, it tries to steal control away when your mouse so much as brushes across it. I tried opening my steam friends list and accidentally moused over one of the buttons on the main window and it shoves the friends window to the background and forces the client to the front.

This entire thing is unacceptably bad and is making steam horrible to use.

[RiO]

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

[Milca_11]

Originally posted by RiO:

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

YOOOO That actually did the trick! Thank you man!

[Milca_11]

Originally posted by Green Tea:

jesus fuc­k dude I wish the hell we could man, this is literally the worst edition yet, such a deaf company I swear
♥♥♥♥ steam royally, never giving these shlubs a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cent again, I'm just gonna start "buying" a game then refunding it without deleting it, already did it with rimworld and a few other games, this sh­it is so frustrating, especially when they go out of their way to fix previously working workarounds to their inability to design a proper half decent UI

Refer to

Originally posted by RiO:

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

I just tried it and like a miracle it worked

[Milca_11]

Originally posted by RiO:

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

I don't know for how long this fix will last but i will put it in an Even simpler step by step form for the less experienced of Us



#1 locate the Steam Shorcut
#2 Right click on the Steam Shortcut
#3 In the Popup menu click on "Proprieties"
#4 In the box that has "Target" at the start (below target location) click on the box and go to the end by pressing the right arrow
#5 Press space and type "-vgui" without the "" mark
#6 at the bottom of the window beside "OK" and "Cancel" pres "Apply"
#7 Restart steam by closing it from the tray or task manager
#8 Enjoy a better ui Experience

-Thanks to RiO for the original answer

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Originally posted by RiO:

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

The -vgui argument works with GNU/Linux executables as well.

[fmis]

don't think this works with windows 11, pain

[Milca_11]

Originally posted by fmis:

don't think this works with windows 11, pain

I am on widnwos 11 and it works
did you follow the steps here precicely?

Originally posted by Milca_11 OwO:

Originally posted by RiO:

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

I don't know for how long this fix will last but i will put it in an Even simpler step by step form for the less experienced of Us



#1 locate the Steam Shorcut
#2 Right click on the Steam Shortcut
#3 In the Popup menu click on "Proprieties"
#4 In the box that has "Target" at the start (below target location) click on the box and go to the end by pressing the left arrow
#5 Press space and type "-vgui" without the "" mark
#6 at the bottom of the window beside "OK" and "Cancel" pres "Apply"
#7 Restart steam by closing it from the tray or task manager
#8 Enjoy a better ui Experience

-Thanks to RiO for the original answer

[Vendetta]

"C:\your location example\Steam\Steam.exe" -vgui it will look like this when done. worked great for me HEY STEAM! know your role, you are a game launching interface. Nothing more. Stay outta the way. You got one job!

[zero254]

Originally posted by RiO:

steam.exe -vgui forces Steam to start with the previous stable UI.

This works but you know they're going to try to take this away because they hate the end user.

[fmis]

Originally posted by Vendetta:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -vgui it will look like this when done. worked great for me HEY STEAM! know your role, you are a game launching interface. Nothing more. Stay outta the way. You got one job!

just doesn't seem to work for me, i'm probably being absolutely stupid though

[fmis]

Originally posted by fmis:

Originally posted by Vendetta:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -vgui it will look like this when done. worked great for me HEY STEAM! know your role, you are a game launching interface. Nothing more. Stay outta the way. You got one job!

just doesn't seem to work for me, i'm probably being absolutely stupid though

turns out i'm stupid, wont work if you launch it from taskbar :3