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Steam Next Fest Developer Q&A Session

April 28 - jennyj | 5 Comments

Join us August 18, 2026 at 10am Pacific time for a virtual Q&A session about Steam Next Fest

Are you considering participating with a free demo in this edition or a future edition of Next Fest? Tune in and join members of the Steam team live in a virtual Q&A session where we answer developer's questions about Next Fest.

During this one-hour session, we're available to answer game developers' questions about registering, participating, or getting the most out of having a demo in Next Fest. Join us August 18, 2026 here on Zoom[valve.zoom.us].

You can also check out past recordings of our live Q&A sessions here on the Steamworks YouTube Channel.

Steamworks SDK 1.65 has been released

July 23 - boyd | 12 Comments

Steamworks SDK v1.65 has been released, and is available for download from https://partner.steamgames.com. Like any Steamworks SDK release, updating is recommended but not required - older versions will continue to work without issue.

Notes:

This SDK version was re-released July 27th with rebuilt Win32 steam_api binaries.
This SDK version was re-released July 31st with a fix to ISteamApps::GetBetaInfo not setting the punTimestampUpdated out parameter.

Release Notes

Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck

Removed ISteamUtils::IsRunningOnSteamDeck(). Please use other feature specific methods below.
Added ISteamUtils::IsRunningOnSteamHardware() which returns ESteamHardwareType. Use this call for analytics, support or diagnostic purposes. For functional decisions, see other SDK calls.
Added ISteamUtils::GetSteamHardwareDefaultConfig() to help choose default game settings (video and other) that you have tuned for specific Steam hardware. It also enables changing your default game settings on future Steam hardware without needing to recompile your game.
Added ISteamUtils::IsRunningUnderProton() to determine if your game is running under the Proton compatibility layer on Linux.
ISteamUtils contains other pre-existing methods that may be useful when replacing IsRunningOnSteamDeck(), such as ISteamUtils::IsSteamInBigPictureMode() and ISteamUtils::IsSteamRunningInVR().

ISteamApps

Added SetGamePerformanceSetting() and SetGameRenderResolution() methods so a game can report to Steam servers what the relative performance settings and game resolution are set to for the given user. This data will be included with anonymous framerate data if the user has opted into sharing that.

ISteamUGC - Added options for querying UGC (sorted in descending order)

k_EUGCQuery_RankedByNumParentItems - how many items depend on this item (if it isn't a collection)
k_EUGCRankedByNumParentCollections - how many collections contain this item

Steam Input

Added Switch 2, Steam Controller and Steam Frame Controller action origin enum values

ISteamMatchmakingServers

Added ISteamMatchmakingServers::ServerFriends() to get a list of friends that have recently played on a specific server
Added "popularamongfriends" filter option to retrieve a set of servers that the user's friends commonly play on

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