Steam launched a brand new Steam Deck Client update on August 12th with a bunches of fixes and quality of life improvements.
Steam Deck Client Update
General
- Added support for Indonesian language.
- Fixed the “Processing Shaders” dialog flashing when launching a game.
- Fixed manual GPU clocks not getting applied when launching a game.
- Fixed screenshot notifications not showing up when a screenshot is taken.
- Fixed empty folders not being re-created when verifying a game installation.
- Fixed a case where a Library Folder could be forgotten when a drive was unplugged from the system.
- Fixed a case where non-steam games could disappear from the library.
- Fixed issue where some steam:// protocol handlers were not handled correctly due to case sensitivity. Example: steam://url/communityfilepage/<ugcid> was not working correctly.
- Fixed issue with steam://connect/<gameserver ip>:<game server port>/<optional password> was not handled.
- Fixed a case where the System Report upload process would proclaim success even though the operation failed.
- Added a “Save To Desktop” option to the System Report dialog.
- Fixed issue where the virtual keyboard was not showing when requested by the game in game mode.
- Fixed a case where the user would be prompted to install an OS update for a second time after switching between game mode and desktop mode.
Steam Input
- Fixed touchpad input when using the Victrix and Qanba PS4/PS5 arcade sticks
- Reduced lag when switching between pages in the “Edit Layout” view for configurations with large numbers of action sets/layers/mode-shifts
- Fixed the DualSense firmware update dialog from popping up when the controller was connected over Bluetooth and already up to date
- Added the ability to bind Steam Input API trigger actions to button inputs.
Steam Cloud
- Fixed a case where Steam Cloud saves could be synced to a computer that did not have the game installed if the game was available for streaming from another PC.
Remote Play
- Fixed controller buttons being stuck down.
- Added support for 4K high quality streaming presets.
- Fixed occasional crash directly launching a game from the Steam Link UI.
- Fixed device authorization dialog not showing if Steam Link connects while Steam is starting up.
Library
- Fixed some screenshot thumbnails on the activity feed not being properly obscured when marked as spoiler.
Desktop Mode
- Allow the settings window to be resized.
- Improved reliability of Back button.
- Adjusted the low battery notification for laptops/handheld PCs to only fire in the overlay or the main BPM window.
- Fixed windows being able to set minimum sizes larger than their display dimensions.
- Fixed clicking “Play Game” links in event news causing client popup windows to close.
- steamwebhelper support dialog is now shown if the main client window cannot be created at startup.
- Fixed switching from fullscreen to windowed mode when a full-screen video is dismissed.
- Fixed notifications stealing focus when shown in overlay.
- Fixed overlay freezing when a file dialog is shown.
- The overlay tabbed browser will now wait until the overlay has been activated for the first time before restoring saved tabs.
- Added an option to In Game settings that allows toggling whether overlay browser tabs will be restored when starting a game.
- Fixed a bug which could cause a server browser query to stop prematurely without pinging all of the servers.
