How to display only the Installed games?

[anon8431]

It's incredibly difficult to tell the difference between what is, and what isn't installed.

Is there a way to only list the installed games, as at least used to be possible?

If not, there needs to be before this is deployed to everyone.

[Adam Beckett]

This is ridiculous!

I too am trying to find my installed games ... and the ONLY way so far, I found, is to switch to "Big Picture Mode" where the "Installed games" is still a clickable option.

I would like to punch some Valve UI Designer in the face.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Right above the search bar, button on the right.

[The King Striker]

There is a small button that looks like a play button below the 'home' button, toggling this on will only show your installed games. I understand finding this button can be a nightmare but I personally don't switch that much between those views so having it be a big button would feel wasteful.

[anon8431]

Thanks, found the button. All good.

[Plaid]

Also, the button below that allows to filter by "installed locally" and "ready to play"

I'm not used to having it this good.

[Timothy]

If you want a shelf you can use sort by 'Size on Disk' and it puts the installed games at the top. Not perfect but better than before

[nu1mlock]

Using the filter next to the search bar is only temporary and will be reset next time you enter your library. Clicking the "play button" close to the search bar is being remembered. As an FYI I guess.

[Plaid]

Originally posted by nu1mlock:

Using the filter next to the search bar is only temporary and will be reset next time you enter your library. Clicking the "play button" close to the search bar is being remembered. As an FYI I guess.

Ah okay. Thanks for the heads up.

[Shadow]

Also, the games not installed still show dimmed in the left list and with an icon (a down arrow like thing) in the main view at right. That icon is very dimmed and can be invisible if the artwork is too bright though. That could use some work maybe

[KingOfRage]

This needs more polish, shelves not clearly differentiating installed and not installed games is very problematic.

[NotRandomEnough]

The whole "Installed Locally" thing is nice and all, but it removes categories from the library list. That needs some serious overhaul. I want to maintain my library categories like in the old "Installed" filter and just see the installed games. Why change it to this ridiculous new filter that either gives me all of my hundreds of games with no idea what's what or gives me a blob of installed games with no categories so I can't easily remember what game is what? Bring back the old "Installed" filter.

[orbatos]

The small shows "ready to play" games, which is NOT the same as "installed games". IN order to show installed games, make a dynamic collection with that option checked.

I'll not that this is stupid, as whether a game is installed shouldn't be a similar criteria to the genre of game you are searching for.

[WarriorParasaurolophus]

Originally posted by Helping Hoof:

The whole "Installed Locally" thing is nice and all, but it removes categories from the library list. That needs some serious overhaul. I want to maintain my library categories like in the old "Installed" filter and just see the installed games. Why change it to this ridiculous new filter that either gives me all of my hundreds of games with no idea what's what or gives me a blob of installed games with no categories so I can't easily remember what game is what? Bring back the old "Installed" filter.

yes. I want to see what's installed locally on my computer, listed in its categories. I don't mind the new interface, but either this feature is broken or it's not as easy as it needs to be. I either get stuff in my categories (including stuff installed on other machines, which I don't want), or I get a single catagory for installed locally, ignoring any category tags I put in.

This more than any other issue makes me want to go back to non-beta. If I can't easily find what I'm looking for, there's a design issue. And to be clear - if I had to do some special filter (that i could save as an easy to click button), to get this, I would be fine (slightly annoyed, but fine), but right now I don't see any way to get this functionality that was there before.

[Sazzouu]

Originally posted by orbatos:

The small shows "ready to play" games, which is NOT the same as "installed games". IN order to show installed games, make a dynamic collection with that option checked.

If you don't have shared libraries or use remote play or only use your account one machine it bascially is the same as "installed games"

[NotRandomEnough]

I mean, the problem with me not being able to find my games just makes me add a shortcut so I can launch the game with the Steam API being an afterthought. Effectively that means I don't see the abhorrent beta client for more than a second while the actual game loads... I don't think that's what Valve had intended.