Valve are doing their thing again and pushing out a pretty damn big update to the Steam client with a refreshed look and some nifty new features.
I won't pop the whole changelog up here as it's a doozy, but to highlight a few important changes is needed.
It's great that Valve constantly push to update the Steam store and Steam client with the needs of gamers.
Linux specific fixes
- Updated Steam Runtime with support for newer compilers
- Added support for entering custom network settings in Big Picture
- Fixed audio being lost when alt-tabbing
- Fixed crash when doing a voice chat if you did not have a network connection
- Fixed launching SteamVR games
New feature highlight
The colour scheme now matches Big Picture mode some more with more blue, and it looks pretty nice.
You can assign games to more than one category now which is pretty damn useful.
They finally gave the overlay web browser a major update, but does anyone use it?
You can hide games from your library now.
And a lot more to it.
What is the Steam client still missing for you? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I won't pop the whole changelog up here as it's a doozy, but to highlight a few important changes is needed.
It's great that Valve constantly push to update the Steam store and Steam client with the needs of gamers.
Linux specific fixes
- Updated Steam Runtime with support for newer compilers
- Added support for entering custom network settings in Big Picture
- Fixed audio being lost when alt-tabbing
- Fixed crash when doing a voice chat if you did not have a network connection
- Fixed launching SteamVR games
New feature highlight
The colour scheme now matches Big Picture mode some more with more blue, and it looks pretty nice.
You can assign games to more than one category now which is pretty damn useful.
They finally gave the overlay web browser a major update, but does anyone use it?
You can hide games from your library now.
And a lot more to it.
What is the Steam client still missing for you? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I've been craving for hiding games (outdated betas sitting ugly in the game library anyone?) and setting multiple categories for games. Now we'd only need to be enabled to actually look for games that are in two categories for searching. Didn't find that. And obviously, when you can set several categories, the category setting ui shouldn't close autommatically anymore when having set the first (which did make sense before).
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Metallinatus Aug 15, 2014
The Steam Client is still missing a working version for my PC.... but the blame for that falls in AMD with their crappy drivers, not Valve -.-
The thingy can't even handle Cinnamon anymore in its last "stable" version....
I'm totally jumping to Nvidea in the next upgrade to never return-, but oh, yeah, we were talking about Steam, right?
The thingy can't even handle Cinnamon anymore in its last "stable" version....
I'm totally jumping to Nvidea in the next upgrade to never return-, but oh, yeah, we were talking about Steam, right?
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STEAM maxsettings FTW!^_^
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Quoting: MetallinatusThe Steam Client is still missing a working version for my PC.... but the blame for that falls in AMD with their crappy drivers, not Valve -.-
The thingy can't even handle Cinnamon anymore in its last "stable" version....
I'm totally jumping to Nvidea in the next upgrade to never return-, but oh, yeah, we were talking about Steam, right?
You must be running an incredibly old card or on catalyst for that to be the case though...
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Metallinatus Aug 15, 2014
Quoting: Half-ShotQuoting: MetallinatusThe Steam Client is still missing a working version for my PC.... but the blame for that falls in AMD with their crappy drivers, not Valve -.-You must be running an incredibly old card or on catalyst for that to be the case though...
The thingy can't even handle Cinnamon anymore in its last "stable" version....
I'm totally jumping to Nvidea in the next upgrade to never return-, but oh, yeah, we were talking about Steam, right?
I wish I was.... last year I was still using a HD 3000 series card and it wasn't veeery powerful but the mesa drivers worked fine with it at least (and there were not even AMD drivers for it anymore)....
Then I bought a HD 7000 series card released last year and, well.... this is how it looks like with mesa.
Catalyst worked (without direct rendering) for one day and then broke Cinnamon.
PS: this is a fresh brand new install of Mint 17 because Catalyst already broke my system last time.
As a result, my underpowered notebook is my saviour once again.
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Quoting: MetallinatusQuoting: Half-ShotQuoting: MetallinatusThe Steam Client is still missing a working version for my PC.... but the blame for that falls in AMD with their crappy drivers, not Valve -.-You must be running an incredibly old card or on catalyst for that to be the case though...
The thingy can't even handle Cinnamon anymore in its last "stable" version....
I'm totally jumping to Nvidea in the next upgrade to never return-, but oh, yeah, we were talking about Steam, right?
I wish I was.... last year I was still using a HD 3000 series card and it wasn't veeery powerful but the mesa drivers worked fine with it at least (and there were not even AMD drivers for it anymore)....
Then I bought a HD 7000 series card released last year and, well.... this is how it looks like with mesa.
Catalyst worked (without direct rendering) for one day and then broke Cinnamon.
PS: this is a fresh brand new install of Mint 17 because Catalyst already broke my system last time.
As a result, my underpowered notebook is my saviour once again.
I have a 7000 card on the git drivers which are a tad buggy and from my testing I have NEVER seen that. But to me that looks like a hardware fault and you should get it refunded right away.
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What I miss is in-home streaming... It was working at some point, but is gone now :(
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Quoting: aLWhat I miss is in-home streaming... It was working at some point, but is gone now :(Me too :(
Demand wasn't as much as Windows -> Linux
But I'm not dualbooting just to stream.
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Metallinatus Aug 15, 2014
Quoting: Half-ShotQuoting: MetallinatusI wish I was.... last year I was still using a HD 3000 series card and it wasn't veeery powerful but the mesa drivers worked fine with it at least (and there were not even AMD drivers for it anymore)....I have a 7000 card on the git drivers which are a tad buggy and from my testing I have NEVER seen that. But to me that looks like a hardware fault and you should get it refunded right away.
Then I bought a HD 7000 series card released last year and, well.... this is how it looks like with mesa.
Catalyst worked (without direct rendering) for one day and then broke Cinnamon.
PS: this is a fresh brand new install of Mint 17 because Catalyst already broke my system last time.
As a result, my underpowered notebook is my saviour once again.
If you say so, that is good.... I think.... the little problem is that I bought it in the beginning of the year during my trip to USA.... so refund is not quite an option for me.
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Quoting: Half-ShotTHIS!Quoting: aLWhat I miss is in-home streaming... It was working at some point, but is gone now :(Me too :(
Demand wasn't as much as Windows -> Linux
But I'm not dualbooting just to stream.
We're missing THIS!! xD
Want to stream to my HTPC. Both are running Linux.
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