Steam launched a brand new Steam Deck Client update on January 11th with a bunches of fixes and quality of life improvements.
Steam Deck Client Update
We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable (default) channel.
General
- Reduce the amount of black screen flashes that happen when opening the Steam interface while playing a game with a custom screen refresh rate setting.
- Replaced Nearest scaling mode with Pixel, a pseudo-bandlimited filter for upscaling pixel art to non-integer factors without introducing aliasing. Integer scale factors will still be Nearest.
- Fixed “Friends who Play” section not refreshing until the client was restarted
- Fixed a crash in “Call of Duty: Black Ops III” when switching maps.
- Fixed situations causing the Steam client to only download the Windows version of a title and later attempting to run it without Proton.
- Reset the HDR Visualization setting to None for all users.
- Moved the HDR Visualization setting from Display->Advanced to Developer settings.
- Adjusted the recent games page header so that it’s visible when changing selection.
- Fixed left trackpad haptics triggering at wrong pressure for Steam Deck OLED.
- Fix “View Additional Artwork” button not properly showing content on soundtrack details pages.
Steam Workshop
- Re-designed the Workshop subscriptions list (accessible from Game Properties). It now includes the ability to sort by subscription date, last updated, size, name, and load order.
- Added ability to change the local load order of Workshop item subscriptions.
- Added ability to set the local order based on any Workshop item dependencies (must be set on the Workshop items themselves).
- Added ability to disable Workshop item subscriptions, which will hide them from the game.
- Added the ability to filter the Workshop subscriptions list by tag name. Use the same search field for filtering items by name.
- Show the name of the Workshop item being download in the game’s tooltip on the Downloads page.
- Added functionality that allows swapping the items in your subscription list quickly using collections:
- Added ability to save the filtered list of items to a new or existing Workshop collection. This will overwrite the contents of the collection with the contents of the list.
- Added ability to overwrite the user’s subscription list to just the contents of a Workshop collection.
- Added ability to add items from a collection to the user’s subscription list.
Steam Cloud
- Fix uploading for some apps which have a very large number of files
- Fix sync for some apps which store files in the Windows user home directory
Steam Input
- Fixed a crash related to non-Steam Shortcuts
